LAURA GELFAND

Associate Professor of Art (1997), B.A. State University of New York at Stony Brook; M.A. Williams College; PhD Case Western Reserve University, 1994.

Laura D. Gelfand received her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve Uni-versity in l994 after receiving her BA from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in l987 and an MA from Williams College in l989.

Laura is Chair of the Division of Art History, Education and Exhibitions. As a professor in the of the Art History Depart-ment she teaches classes on Northern Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Medieval, and Baroque art history as well as special topics courses such as Women in Art, Painting in Renaissance Venice, and a symposium on Jan van Eyck.

Dr. Gelfands most recent publications include:

"The Iconography of Style: Margaret of Austria and the Church of St. Nicolas of Tolentino at Brou.", "ASurrogate Selves: The Rolin Madonna and the Late-medieval Devotional Portrait" (with Walter S. Gibson, "A New Reading of the Tympanum of the Ste.-Anne Portal of Notre- Dame in Paris", "Devotion, Imitation and Social Aspirations: Fifteenth-century Bruges and the CMA Memling School Madonna and Child".