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    Annabel J Wharton

  • Annabel J Wharton

  • William B. Hamilton Professor
  • Art, Art History & Visual Studies
  • 114A East Duke Building
  • Campus Box 90764
  • Phone: (919) 684-2495, (919) 684-2224
  • Fax: (919) 684-4398

  • Specialties

    • Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
    • Architectural History
    • Medieval Architecture
    • Modern Architecture
    • Religious Visual Culture
    • New Technologies for Visualizing Historical Materials

  • Research Description

    My work has focused primarily on Late Antique and Byzantine art, architecture and material culture. But I have also investigated the effect of modernity on the medieval past and its landscapes, first in my study of the first generation of Hilton International Hotels (Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture, University of Chicago Press, 2001) and more recently in a book titled Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks, University of Chicago Press, 2006). I am in the midst of a new project, tentatively titled Pathological Architectures, Jerusalem and Elsewhere, which deals with buildings as bodies and architectures as agents of authoritarianism, abuse, and addiction as well as venues of protection and pleasure. Architectures from both the historical real world and the digital virtual universe provide case studies.

  • Current Projects

    Pathological Architectures: Jerusalem and Elsewhere, current book project.

  • Education

      • PhD,
      • Courtauld Institute, University of London,
      • 1975
      • MA,
      • University of Chicago,
      • 1969
      • BS,
      • University of Wisconsin, Madison,
      • 1966

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • Co-Convener, Franklin Humanities Center Faculty Seminar, “Recycle",
      • September-May, 2007-2008
      • Research Grant,
      • Rockefeller Archive Center,
      • 2006-2007
      • Allen W. Clowes Fellow,
      • National Humanities Center,
      • 2002-2003
      • Fellowship,
      • American Council of Learned Socieites,
      • 2002-2003
      • Grant,
      • Barbara and Randall Smith Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Program,
      • 2002
      • Major Grant,
      • Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts,
      • 2002-2003
      • Major Grant,
      • Henry R. Luce Foundation,
      • 1999-2002
      • Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow,
      • Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Art, National Gallery of Art,
      • 1992-1993
      • Women's Studies Mainstreaming Award,
      • Duke University Women's Studies,
      • 1987
      • Fellow,
      • National Humanities Center,
      • 1985-1986
      • Fellow,
      • American Council of Learned Societies,
      • 1981-1982
      • Senior Fellow,
      • Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University),
      • 1978-1979

  • Selected Publications

      • Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Themeparks.
      • University of Chicago Press,
      • 2006.
      • Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture.
      • Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
      • 2001.
      • (selected as one of the best books of 2001 by the Economist).
      • Refiguring the Post Classical City: Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem and Ravenna.
      • New York: Cambridge University Press,
      • 1995.
      • Art of Empire: Painting and Architecture of the Byzantine Periphery. A Comparative Study of Four Provinces.
      • University Park, Pa & London: Pennsylvania State University Press,
      • 1988.
      • Tokali Kilise. Tenth Century Metropolitan Art in Byzantine Cappadocia, Dumbarton Oaks Studies XXII.
      • Washinton, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees of Harvard University,
      • 1986.
      • with A. P. Kazhdan.
      • Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.
      • Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press,
      • 1985.
      • (Reprinted in paperback, 1990).
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  • PhD Students

      • 1998 - present