Metropolitan Museum of Art
Melanie Holcomb received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1999. Her dissertation topic was "The Function and Status of Carved Ivory in Carolingian Culture". She is Associate Curator in the Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Dr. Holcomb is currently on leave from the Museum and a post-doctoral fellow of the University of Minnesota's Center for Medieval Studies. She has been working on short studies of the Metropolitan Museum's Avar Treasure and their collection of late antique enamels, and she is also preparing a book-length study on Carolingian author portraits.
Timeline of Art History (http://metmuseum.org/toah), general coordinator, editor and author of historic overview pages, special topics pages and object pages (2001)
Review of the exhibition "799: Kunst und Kultur der Karolingerzeit," Gesta XL/1 (2001).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art - A Permanent Installation of the Museum (Exhibition opened November, 2000)
"New Light on the Dark Ages," a public lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (December, 2000)
"Recycling the Past: the Art of Reuse in the Early Middle Ages," a public lecture at the University of Michigan (May, 1999)
Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of Tapestries from the Detroit Institute of Arts (1996) (with Alan Darr)