Kathryn Moore

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"The freedom of expression that America fosters allows me not only to seek to understand what we share with Islam, but also to question our understanding of Islam, to question our demonizing of the 'other.'"

  • Alumni of: 2003 Graduate Scholarship Program
  • Resides: New York, NY
  • Hometown: Alexandria, Virginia
  • Age: 30

Biography

As an Echols Scholar at the University of Virginia, Kathryn crafted her own major to explore the connections between Italian literature, art, and architecture and the culture of the Islamic Mediterranean. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the connections between the idea of the villa in ancient Roman literature and the architecture of Muslim Spain, in particular the Alhambra.  

 

As a PhD student in art history, Kathryn has continued her exploration of the connections of medieval and Italian Renaissance visual culture to the contemporary cultures of the Islamic Mediterranean, with a new focus on Palestine, Syria, and Egypt.  Her dissertation is on the transmission of architectural knowledge in the context of Holy Land pilgrimage, focusing on the illustrated pilgrimage guidebook first created by the Franciscan Niccolo da Poggibonsi in the mid-fourteenth century.  In her dissertation and forthcoming publications, Kathryn explores the function of architectural drawings in pilgrimage guidebooks and the specific example of how Italians represented the Dome of the Rock in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.

 

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