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I really missed the easy discourse that comes with sharing a coffee, talking over a research question, or listening to Q&A after a lecture. What do you like best about being back on campus in person? Corny, okay, but give me a break-I was eleven. The line between history and fantasy obviously was very blurry for me then, but somehow I became absolutely certain I wanted to learn more about this stuff. I loved visiting all the art museums and historic sites, but I think reading The Hobbit on the train between cathedral towns in England was probably what made me a medievalist. Remember Arthur Frommer’s Europe on $10 a Day? My mother really did that. My mother had always wanted to travel, and when I was a child she and my father twice managed to put aside enough money to take the whole family to Europe. What travel experience played a role in your becoming an art historian? It’s a fine reason to get up in the morning. On a more personal note, I’m grateful every day that when I go to work I have the opportunity to hear and share ideas with so many bright, thoughtful people, both in the Index and throughout campus, and in such a beautiful place. These things don’t happen by themselves they take investment at the highest level. As Index director, I especially appreciate the openness to new ideas, the support for scholarly initiatives, and the extraordinary research resources. Very few universities so effectively hold teaching and research at their core, not to mention committing the resources that help them happen. What do you like best about working at Princeton? After 30+ years in the field, I do occasionally wonder if I should wander into some other part of the world, but then some great new Iberian question turns up, and back I go.ĭetail of the reluctant pilgrim from Cantiga 153, Cantigas de Santa María (RBME MS T-I-1), fol. Since coming to the Index in 2015, I’ve continued to research and occasionally teach medieval Iberian things, and I’m always happy to pitch in on cataloging works of art from Spain for the database. The decision served me well: after doing grad degrees at Williams College and Boston University, I was offered a fellowship at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, which then evolved into a split curatorial and faculty position in “Spanish Art.” Although I shifted out of curatorial work after tenure, as a professor at SMU I was able to develop several courses on medieval Iberia as well as other aspects of the Middle Ages. I was fascinated, and still am, by the complexity of medieval Iberian culture and its historiography-the questions are constantly evolving. I’m a medievalist who studies the visual culture of the Iberian Peninsula, a focus that began at Tufts University when my advisor Madeline Caviness pointed me toward the Pamplona Bibles as a research topic. What is your background and specialization? Today we will be introducing Pamela Patton.
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This blog post is the fifth in a series focusing on members of the Index staff.