Jennifer Kingsley is Teaching Professor in the Program in Museums and Society, affiliate faculty in the Department of the History of Art, and Director of the Program in Museums and Society.<\/p>\r\n
Dr. Kingsley joined the program in 2011, where she has grown a dynamic and interdisciplinary curriculum that emphasizes applied learning and publicly engaged research in collaboration with Baltimore\u2019s cultural and historical institutions, fostering meaningful connections between academic research and broader cultural conversations.\u202fShe has stewarded more than thirty distinct projects for public audiences in collaboration with undergraduate students and community partners. She leads the strategic partnership between the program and the Baltimore Museum of Art and works closely with JHU's Homewood and Evergreen Museums.<\/p>"],"ecpt_research":["
Dr. Kingsley\u2019s research spans early medieval art and its reception in modern museum contexts, American museology, and community-engaged teaching and learning.<\/p>\r\n
Her first book The Bernward Gospels: Art, Memory and the Episcopate in Medieval Germany<\/em> (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014) is a comprehensive study of one of the most significant examples of the 11th-century book arts, an illustrated gospel book that served as a founding gift from Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim to the Abbey of St. Michael\u2019s. A prominent representative of a new class of wealthy and powerful donors\u2014the well-connected bishops of Ottonian Germany, Bernward commissioned artworks of extraordinary quality, and in a wide range of media. The densely meaningful paintings of his book sought to build a special relationship with God and to condition how contemporary and future viewers remembered the bishop. In doing so, the manuscript\u2019s paintings afford broader insight into the nature of medieval images, mechanisms of memory, contemporary struggles with the evolving social roles of bishops in the period, and ideas about the senses and spiritual perception around the millennium.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n In the realm of museum history and museology, Dr. Kingsley\u2019s work has emphasized modern American trends and practices, with a particular focus on Baltimore. She has written about the 2018 restaging of the Baltimore Museum of Art's 1939 exhibition \"Contemporary Negro Art\" and the efforts of Black women to integrate the collections, programs and exhibitions of the Baltimore Museum of Art during the Jim Crow Era. Her book project, By Their Creative Force: Baltimore Women and the Making of Culture in Modern America<\/em> examines the cultural lives of fourteen Baltimore women of diverse backgrounds, generations, and cultural roles, who participated in and shaped America\u2019s emerging art world during a period of profound upheaval and transformation, from the Progressive Era to the decade following World War II.<\/p>\r\n Dr. Kingsley is presently co-editing Advocating for Art History<\/em> (Mount Vernon Press), a volume that addresses pressing issues for the discipline\u2019s status in higher education. Beyond academic contributions, Dr. Kingsley is committed to public scholarship, having led over a dozen collaborative curatorial projects with students.\u00a0<\/p>"],"ecpt_teaching":[" Books<\/p>\r\n Peer-reviewed articles and chapters<\/p>\r\n Chapters in Edited Volumes<\/p>\r\n Public dissemination<\/p>\r\n Reviews<\/p>\r\nCourses Taught<\/h3>\r\n
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