Nancy Thebaut

Nancy Thebaut

Nancy Thebaut is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago, where she studies medieval art and theology. She earned a B.A. at Agnes Scott College (2008), an M.A. at the Courtauld Institute of Art (2009), and a “diplôme de muséologie” at the Ecole du Louvre (2011). In her dissertation, “Non est hic: Figuring Christ’s Absence in Early Medieval Art,” she studies images of Christ after his Resurrection made during the tenth through twelfth centuries in western Europe. Prior to beginning her doctorate, Nancy worked as an artist’s assistant for Judy Chicago and interned at the Musée de Cluny and the Cloisters, where she continues to be a guest lecturer. Nancy currently holds a two-year Kress History of Art Institutional Fellowship at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris, as well as a Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship. 

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