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Acting Director 2007-08 Joan BranhamVisiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Early Christianity and Judaism email: jbranham@hds.harvard.edu phone: 617.495.5705 Joan Branham is Associate Professor of Art History at Providence College where she teaches courses in late-antique and medieval art and architectural history. She also serves as vice president and chair of fellowships for the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, overseeing the institute's selection of fellows in biblical studies, archaeology, religion, and related fields. Dr. Branham's research interests include theories of sacred space, the relationship of gender, blood, and sacrifice in ancient Judaism and Christianity (see, for example, "Bloody Women and Bloody Spaces: Menses and the Eucharist in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages," Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 2002), the iconography of late-antique synagogues and churches, and textual and visual strategies—ancient and modern—to emulate the ancient Jerusalem Temple. She has also participated as a scholarly consultant in a number of documentary film projects, including The Trial of Jesus (History Channel, 2004), Epic History of Blood (PBS, 2002), Women Pharaohs and Hagia Sophia (Discovery Channel, 2001, 1999), and, currently, Digging the Bible (NOVA / PBS, 2008). Dr. Branham received her PhD from Emory University in 1993 with doctoral fellowships from the American Association of University Women and Kress Foundation. She conducted her doctoral research at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with an Interuniversity Fellowship for Jewish Studies. She has received a number of postdoctoral awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship (2002), a WSRP fellowship at Harvard Divinity School (2001-02), a Chateaubriand Fellowship at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris (1994-95), and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (1993-94). For more information, please go to Joan Branham's website. Photograph courtesy Joan Branham. |
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