Jill Caskey
Title: Associate Professor
Degrees and Institutions from which they were received
A.B. Bryn Mawr
M.A. Yale University
M.Phil. Yale University
Ph.D. Yale University
Areas of Academic Interest
Medieval art and architecture.
Recent Publications
“A Bath in Southwest Italy.” In Medieval Italy: A Documentary History, ed. Frances Andrews, Joanna Drell, and Katherine Jansen (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).
“Liquid Gothic: The Uses of Ornament in Southern Italy.” In Reading Gothic Architecture, ed. Matthew Reeve (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), pp. 111-122.
Review, Caroline Bruzelius, The Stones of Naples (Yale Univ. Press, 2004), for The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 66 (2007), pp. 525-527.
“Whodunnit? Patronage, the Canon, and the Problematics of Agency in Romanesque and Gothic Art.” In A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, ed. Conrad Rudolph (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2006), pp.193-212.
Art and Patronage in the Medieval Mediterranean: Merchant Culture in the Region of Amalfi. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004.
Reviews: Speculum, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, The Medieval Review, CAAReviews, Sixteenth Century Journal, University of Toronto Quarterly/Letters in Canada, Quaderni d’Italianistica, Italian Culture, Hortus artium medievalium, Annali d’Italianistica
“The House of the Rufolos in Ravello: Lay Patronage and Diversification of Domestic Space in Southern Italy.” In The Christian Household in Medieval Europe, c. 850-c.1550: Managing Power, Wealth, and the Body, ed. Cordelia Beattie, Anna Maslakovic, and Sarah Rees Jones (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 315-334.
Review, Maureen Miller, The Bishop’s Palace. Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy (Cornell Univ. Press, 2000), for The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 60 (2001), pp. 212-214.
“Steam and Sanitas in the Domestic Realm: Baths and Bathing in Southern Italy in the Middle Ages.” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58 (1999): 170-195.
“Sudore e sanitas nell'ambiente domestico: Bagni e balneazione nell'Italia meridionale durante il Medioevo,” Rassegna del Centro di cultura e storia amalfitana, Spring 2003 (translation of JSAH article).
“The Stucco Tomb of Bartolommeo Franconi in Teggiano: Introduction and Implications.” In Napoli, il Mediterraneo, l’Europa. Atti del Colloquio CIHA, Napoli, 1998, ed. Francesco Aceto and Rosa De Gennaro. Naples, 20?? In press.
Review, Kathryn Brush, The Shaping of Art History: Wilhelm Vöge, Adolph Goldschmidt, and the Study of Medieval Art (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), for University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 67.1 (Winter 1997/98), pp. 176-78.
Review, Roger Stalley, Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland (Yale Univ. Press, 1987), for Architectura 21 (1991), pp. 91- 93.
Current research interests
art and architecture of medieval southern Italy; ars sacra and identity; “global” medieval art; multiculturalism
Awards and Fellowships
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Research Grant, 2000-2004
2000 Founder's Award, Society of Architectural Historians, for the best article
by a junior scholar to appear in the previous two years of the Journal of the Society of
Architectural Historians. For "Steam and Sanitas in the Domestic Realm," 1999, noted above.
Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in Art History, 1999-2000
Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow, American Academy in Rome, 1992-94
Fulbright Full Grant, University of Naples, 1991-92