Jeffrey F. Hamburger is an American art historian specializing in medieval religious art and illuminated manuscripts. In 2000 he joined the faculty of Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, where in 2008 he was appointed the Kuno Francke

Kuno Francke

Kuno Francke , was a U.S. educator and historian. Most of his career was spent at Harvard University where he eventually became a professor of history and German culture and curator of the Germanic Museum.-Biography:...

 Professor of German Art and Culture. Hamburger received his B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

, M.A and Ph.D from Yale

Yale University

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 and has previously held professorships at Oberlin College

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...

 and the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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. Elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy

Medieval Academy of America

The Medieval Academy of America is the largest organization in the United States promoting excellence in the field of medieval studies. It was founded in 1925 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts...

 in 2001, he has won numerous awards for his publications, among them: the Charles Rufus Morey Prize of the College Art Association

College Art Association

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 (1999), the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Art & Music (1999), the Otto Gründler Prize of the International Congress on Medieval Studies

International Congress on Medieval Studies

The International Congress on Medieval Studies is an annual academic conference held for scholars specializing in, or with an interest in, medieval studies. It is sponsored by Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan and is held during the first half of May...

 (1999), the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society

American Philosophical Society

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 (1998), the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America (1994), and the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities of the American Council of Graduate Schools (1991). His research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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, the American Philosophical Society, the Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Advanced Study

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, the National Endowment for the Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

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 and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. In 2009 Hamburger was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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 and in 2010, of the American Philosophical Society

American Philosophical Society

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Select bibliography

• Leaves from Paradise: The Cult of John the Evangelist at the Dominican Convent of Paradies bei Soest, Houghton Library Studies, vol. 2 Cambridge: Houghton Library, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
• Crown and Veil: The Art of Female Monasticism in the Middle Ages, co-edited with Susan Marti (translation of essays from the catalogue Krone und Schleier. Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöster), foreword by Caroline W. Bynum, trans. Dietlinde Hamburger. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
• Frauen - Kloster - Kunst: Neue Forschungen zur Kulturgeschichte des Mittelalters. Internationales Kolloquium im Zusammenhang mit Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern, Die Wolfsburg, Mülheim/Ruhr, co-edited with Carola Jäggi, Susan Marti, Hedwig Röckelein, Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.
• Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow: Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Painting and Manuscript Illumination, co-edited with Anne Korteweg, Turnhout: Brepols, 2006.
• The Mind’s Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Medieval West, co-edited with Anne-Marie Bouché, Princeton: Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, 2005.
• Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern, Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2005. International loan exhibition, Kunst- und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, and Ruhrland Museum, Essen, March 17-July 3, 2005, co-conceived with Jan Gerchow and Robert Suckale, co-edited with Lothar Altringer, Carola Jäggi, Susan Marti, Petra Marx, Hedwig Röckelein.
• St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN 0520228774
• Die Ottheinrich-Bibel: Kommentar zur Faksimile-Ausgabe der Handschrift Cgm 8010/1.2 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München, co-authored with Brigitte Gullath, Karin Schneider, & Robert Suckale, Luzern: Faksimile-Verlag, 2002.
• The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN 0942299450
• Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. ISBN 0520203860
• The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300 New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. ISBN 0300043082