
Ashley Laverock
Art history professor
Education
- Ph.D., art history, Emory University
- M.A., art history, Tuffs University
- B.A., art history, Southern Methodist University
Credentials
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Professor of art history, 2017-present
Part-time faculty member, 2016-2017, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta
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Graduate assistant, 2014, Medieval Studies
Graduate assistant, 2013-2014 Mellon-Funded Sawyer Seminar
Research assistant to Elizabeth C. Pastan, 2010-2013
Visual resources specialist, 2009-2016, Visual Resources Library, Emory University, Atlanta
- Graduate student lecturer, 2008-2009, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Research assistant to Madeline H. Caviness, 2007-2009
Research assistant to Eva R. Hoffman, 2007-2008
Graduate research consultant, community relations, 2007-2008, Tufts University, Medford, MA
- Design consultant, 2006-2009, Boston Frame Works, Boston
- Voice Your Vision Gallery guide, 2006-2008, Tufts University Art Gallery
- Graduate Assistant, Digital Image Collection, 2006-2007, Tufts University, Medford, MA
- Art consultant, 2005-2006, Art Ability, Dallas
Awards, recognitions, and honors
- Dean's Teaching Fellow, Emory University, 2015-2016
- Heckman Stipend, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, 2015
- Sherry L. Reams Graduate Student Travel Award, The Hagiography Society, 2015
- Mellon-Funded Sawyer Seminar Dissertation Fellow, Emory University, 2013-2014
- Mellon-Funded Graduate Fellowship in Object-Based Curatorial Research, 2012
- First Recipient, High Museum of Art and Emory University, 2012
- Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Travel Award, 2012
- Ann Abrams Travel Award, Emory University, 2012
- Ann Abrams Travel Award, Emory University, 2011
- Laney Graduate School Full Tuition and Stipend, Emory University, 2009-2014
Organizations
- Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevum, appointed 2018
- Hagiography Society
- Society of Medieval Feminist Scholarship
- International Center for Medieval Art
- Medieval Academy of America
- International Center for Medieval Art Student Committee, 2012-2016
Publications and presentations
Publications
- "Saints' Lives and Stained Glass," in Decoding Medieval Sources: Stained Glass, edited by Elizabeth Pastan and Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz, Brill, 2019.
- St. Andrew by Tilman Riemenschneider: Research Report, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2012.
- Arethusa by Benjamin West: Research Report, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2012.
Conference papers
- "Reframing St. Margaret at Ardagger Abbey: The Thirteenth-Century Stained-Glass Window of St. Margaret of Antioch in the Seventeenth Century," Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., April, 2019
- "Monumental Martyrdom: The Stained Glass Windows of St. Margaret of Antioch." Medieval Academy of America Meeting, Emory University, Atlanta, March 2018
- "St. Margaret and the Dragon: Representation and Ritual at Chartres Cathedral," 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2017
- "Vitreous Verses: Text and Image in the Thirteenth-Century Stained Glass Window of St. Margaret of Antioch at Ardagger Abbey," Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., March 2017
- "Re-thinking Margaret and the Dragon at Chartres Cathedral," Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 2016
- "Sight, Conversion, and Martyrdom in the Thirteenth-Century Window of St. Margaret of Antioch at Auxerre Cathedral," UVA-Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference, Wise, Va., September 2015
- "Vitreous Vita: The Dynamic Hagiography of St. Margaret at Ardagger Abbey, Austria," 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2015
- "Image and Inscription: The Thirteenth-Century Stained Glass Window of St. Margaret of Antioch at Ardagger Abbey, Austria," Georgia Medievalists Meeting, Emory University, February 2014
- "Fiends and Foreigners: Images of St. Edward the Confessor's Predecessors in the Mid Thirteenth-Century La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei," Charles Homer Haskins Society, Boston College, November 2012
- "Marginalizing Margaret? The Margaret and Catherine Window at Chartres Cathedral," 47th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2012
- "Eighth-Century Iconoclasm at the Complex of St. Stephen, Umm al-Rasas, Jordan: A Case Study of the Cultural Interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims," 4th Annual Medieval Graduate Student Symposium, University of North Texas, January 2008
Invited lectures
- "The Materiality of Martyrdom: St. Margaret of Antioch in Medieval Manuscripts," Materiality of Devotion Exhibition Colloquium, Pitts Theological Library, Atlanta, March 2019