Nina Rowe received her undergraduate degree in Art History at Oberlin College (1990) and an M.A. in Art History at the University of Texas (1994). She received a Ph.D. in Art History at Northwestern University (2002). Her dissertation was on Monumental Fictions: Personifications of Synagogue and Church on the Thirteenth-Century Cathedral FaŤade.
She was a visiting Assistant Professor at Middlebury College where she taught courses in Medieval and Renaissance visual culture. This fall, Professor Rowe became a member of the faculty at Fordham University where she is an Assistant Professor in Department of Art History and Music.
Nina Rowe studies Medieval Art, especially cathedral sculpture in thirteenth century France and Germany and manuscript illumination. Her scholarship also focuses on Medieval Christian-Jewish relations and modern attitudes toward the Middle Ages.
"Ivory and Anger: Devotional Diptychs and the Spread of Anti-Semitism," article to be submitted to Studies in Iconography (The Journal of the Index of Christian Art). (In progress)
The Beauty of Defeat: Synagoga, Ecclesia and Urban Spectatorship in the High Middle Ages. An examination of monumental, sculpted representations of the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in the thirteenth century. (In progress)
"Synagoga Tumbles, a Rider Triumphs: Clerical Specatorship and the Dynamics of Entry at Bamberg Cathedral," under revision for Gesta (The Journal of the International Center of Medieval Art)
"Synagoga and the City: Strasbourg South Revisited," in Beyond the Yellow Badge: New Approaches to Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in Medieval and Renaissance Visual Culture, ed. Mitchell Merback (Leiden: Brill, 2006).
Co-Editor with David Areford. Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences (London: Ashgate Press, November 2004).
Co-Author and Co-editor. Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction (Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art, 2001; distributed by Oak Knoll Press).