Biography
Sarah Dyer Magleby earned her Ph.D. from the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas in 2024, specializing in late medieval and Northern Renaissance art, with minor fields in Gothic architecture and Japanese Buddhism. Her research focuses on late medieval and early modern material and visual culture and the use of middle-class inventories to rematerialize past collections, with particular interest in manuscripts and printed books, tapestries and textiles, metalwork and precious gems, objects in ivory, and painting and sculpture. She is also interested in reimagining architectural spaces and examining how objects functioned as groupings within them. Through her year-long Jeanne Marandon Fellowship, she studied in Paris at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, where she conducted research for her dissertation. This work has resulted in multiple publications and collaborations with digital humanities projects. In addition to her research, she has taught courses in global, European, Asian, medieval, and early modern humanities and art history.