Centre for Medieval Studies
Dr Meg Bernstein
Meg Bernstein was a Fulbright US Scholar in History of Art at the University of York in 2021-2, and holds a postdoctoral fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. She graduated from UCLA in 2019 with a PhD in Art History, focusing on medieval art and architecture. She is an alumna of Smith College, and holds master’s degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Yale Divinity School. From 2015-2017 she was Kress Institutional Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and in 2020-21, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Meg has taught at UCLA, the Courtauld, RISD, Columbia, Yale, and Kenyon College.
Meg’s current book project, tentatively titled A Living Church: Building the English Parish, 1150-1300, examines the social and spatial developments in parish churches in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, demonstrating that these buildings were a vehicle for the expression of new religious and social identities. With James Alexander Cameron, Meg organised the conference Towards an Art History of the Parish Church in 2017; she is presently editing transactions for the conference which will be published with Courtauld Books Online in fall of 2021. Meg is Honorary Web Officer of the British Archaeological Association, web and editor manager of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland, and serves on the IDEA+ Committee of the International Center of Medieval Art.
