Cynthia Hahn

Hunter College, CUNY

09/06/2021 - 12/31/2021

Cynthia Hahn is professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. She has held fellowships from NEH, CASVA, and the IAS, among others. Her books include studies on reliquaries: Strange Beauty (2012), The Reliquary Effect (2017), and Passion Relics (2020), as well as others on manuscripts, rock crystal, and jewelry. At the Clark, she will complete a book on religious jewelry for Reaktion: Precious Things: Making/Marking the Christian Body, and commence an examination of the Carolingian manuscript, the Utrecht Psalter, in its political and religious environment.