Mariah Proctor-Tiffany
Dr. Mariah Proctor-Tiffany specializes in the art of medieval women, Islamic art, digital humanities, and modern medievalism. Her book Medieval Art in Motion: The Inventory and Gift Giving of Queen Clémence de Hongrie (Pennsylvania State University Press) highlights the interconnectedness of the medieval world by tracing objects and materials from places like Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Africa through medieval systems of gift exchange.
She and Dr. Tracy Chapman Hamilton edited the volume Moving Women Moving Objects (400-1500) (Brill), and their digital art history project Mapping the Medieval Woman literally puts medieval women on the map by charting their foundations, residences, rituals, monastic houses, and labor in medieval Paris. Dr. Proctor-Tiffany also works on modern collecting of medieval and Islamic art, focusing on Doris Duke's Islamic art collection, and she is co-editing two issues on medievalism for the journal Different Visions.
Grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the International Center of Medieval Art, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation have supported her research. She has worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Cloisters, and Rhode Island School of Design and earned her Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture at Brown University. She enjoys teaching at CSU Long Beach because of the curiosity and varied perspectives of her students.
- PhD, Brown University, 2007
- Medieval Art in Motion: The Inventory and Gift Giving of Queen Clémence de Hongrie. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. Awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Art History Publication Initiative Grant.
- Moving Women Moving Objects (400-1500). Co-edited with Tracy Chapman Hamilton. Brill, 2019. Awarded an International Center of Medieval Art-Samuel H. Kress Publication Grant.
Mapping the Medieval Woman, with Tracy Chapman Hamilton, digital resource and publications in Esri’s ArcGIS, then CartoDB/Carto, Neatline, and mapping networks in Palladio. The current public-facing iteration, MappingtheMedievalWoman.com, is in Wordpress.
- “Haptic Histories: The Social Lives of Rings in Late Medieval French Inventories” invited essay for the volume The Social Life of Rings, edited by Jitske Jasperse, Arc Humanities Press. (In review)
- “Finding Badass Women through Medievalism” for Different Visions. (In review)
- “Encountering Medievalisms” co-edited special issue of the journal Different Visions with Larisa Grollemond and Bryan Keene. (In review)
- “Fantasy, Fiction, Games, and Film: Playing with the Middle Ages” with Larisa Grollemond and Bryan Keene, in “Encountering Medievalisms,” Different Visions. (In review)
- Review of The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture, by Brigitte Buettner. caa.reviews (July 10, 2023).
- “Inscribing Her Presence: Digital Mapping and Women in Late Medieval Paris” with Tracy Chapman Hamilton, in Medieval People: Social Bonds, Kinship, and Networks 37 no. 1, article 3 (2022).
- “Doris Duke and Mary Crane: Collecting Islamic art for Shangri La, a Hawaiian Hideaway Home.” Journal of the History of Collections, (January 2022): 1-13.
- “Women and the Circulation of Material Culture: Crossing Boundaries and Connecting Spaces” with Tracy Chapman Hamilton in Moving Women Moving Objects (400-1500) (Brill, 2019), 1-12.
- “Transported as a Rare Object of Distinction: Gift Giving in the Inventory and Testament of Clémence of Hungary.” The Journal of Medieval History 41 no. 2 (2015): 208-28.
- “Lost and Found: Visualizing a Medieval Queen’s Destroyed Objects” in Queens in the Mediterranean, ed. Elena Woodacre, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 73-96. Named article of the month by Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index.
- Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, et al., The Object of Ornament: European Design, 1480-1800. Brown University class-curated museum exhibit. The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Exhibition Notes 18, Spring 2002.
