Mariah Proctor-Tiffany
Dr. Mariah Proctor-Tiffany specializes in the art of medieval women, Islamic art, digital humanities, and modern medievalism. Her book Medieval Art in Motion: The Inventory and Gift Giving of Queen Cl茅mence de Hongrie (Pennsylvania State University Press) highlights the interconnectedness of the medieval world by tracing objects and materials from places like Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Africa through medieval systems of gift exchange.
She and Dr. Tracy Chapman Hamilton edited the volume Moving Women Moving Objects (400-1500) (Brill), and their digital art history project literally puts medieval women on the map by charting their foundations, residences, rituals, monastic houses, and labor in medieval Paris. Dr. Proctor-Tiffany also works on modern collecting of medieval and Islamic art, focusing on Doris Duke's Islamic art collection, and she is co-editing two issues on medievalism for the journal Different Visions.
Grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the International Center of Medieval Art, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation have supported her research. She has worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Cloisters, and Rhode Island School of Design and earned her Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture at Brown University. She enjoys teaching at CSU Long Beach because of the curiosity and varied perspectives of her students.
- PhD, Brown University, 2007
- . Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. Awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Art History Publication Initiative Grant.
- . Co-edited with Tracy Chapman Hamilton. Brill, 2019. Awarded an International Center of Medieval Art-Samuel H. Kress Publication Grant.
, with Tracy Chapman Hamilton, digital resource and publications in Esri鈥檚 ArcGIS, then CartoDB/Carto, Neatline, and mapping networks in Palladio. The current public-facing iteration, MappingtheMedievalWoman.com, is in Wordpress.
- 鈥淗aptic Histories: The Social Lives of Rings in Late Medieval French Inventories鈥 invited essay for the volume The Social Life of Rings, edited by Jitske Jasperse, Arc Humanities Press. (In review)
- 鈥淔inding Badass Women through Medievalism鈥 for Different Visions. (In review)
- 鈥淓ncountering Medievalisms鈥 co-edited special issue of the journal Different Visions with Larisa Grollemond and Bryan Keene. (In review)
- 鈥淔antasy, Fiction, Games, and Film: Playing with the Middle Ages鈥 with Larisa Grollemond and Bryan Keene, in 鈥淓ncountering Medievalisms,鈥 Different Visions. (In review)
- , by Brigitte Buettner. caa.reviews (July 10, 2023).
- 鈥溾 with Tracy Chapman Hamilton, in Medieval People: Social Bonds, Kinship, and Networks 37 no. 1, article 3 (2022).
- 鈥.鈥 Journal of the History of Collections, (January 2022): 1-13.
- 鈥溾 with Tracy Chapman Hamilton in Moving Women Moving Objects (400-1500) (Brill, 2019), 1-12.
- 鈥.鈥 The Journal of Medieval History 41 no. 2 (2015): 208-28.
- 鈥溾 in Queens in the Mediterranean, ed. Elena Woodacre, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 73-96. Named article of the month by Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index.
- Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, et al., The Object of Ornament: European Design, 1480-1800. Brown University class-curated museum exhibit. The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Exhibition Notes 18, Spring 2002.
