Pamela A. Patton

Pamela A. Patton is Director of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University. Her research has won grants from the Kress Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and the College Art Association. Her 2012 book, Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain (Penn State Press), earned the 2014 Eleanor Tufts Book Award from the American Society of Hispanic Art Historical Studies. Patton's articles and essays have concerned monastic architectural sculpture, the text-image relationship in manuscripts, and the portrayal of ethnic and religious minorities in high and late medieval Iberia. Her forthcoming work, which includes the 2016 edited volume Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America (Brill), concerns the semiotics of skin color in medieval Iberia and its environs.