Marilyn Stokstad (deceased), teacher, art historian, and
museum curator, was a leader in her field for decades and served as
president of the College Art Association and the International
Center of Medieval Art. In 2002, she was awarded the lifetime
achievement award from the National Women’s Caucus for Art. In
1997, she was awarded the Governor’s Arts Award as Kansas Art
Educator of the Year and an honorary degree of doctor of humane
letters by Carleton College. She was Judith Harris Murphy
Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Kansas,
Lawrence. She also served in various leadership capacities at the
University’s Spencer Museum of Art and was Consultative Curator of
Medieval Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City,
Missouri.
Michael W. Cothren is Scheuer Family Professor of Humanities
and Chair of the Department of Art at Swarthmore College, where he
has also served as Coordinator of Medieval Studies and Chair of the
Humanities Division. Since arriving at Swarthmore in 1978, he has
taught specialized courses on Medieval, Roman, and Islamic art and
architecture, as well as seminars on visual narrative and on theory
and method, but he particularly enjoys teaching the survey to
Swarthmore beginners. His research and publications focus on French
Gothic art and architecture, most recently in a book on the stained
glass of Beauvais Cathedral entitled Picturing the Celestial City.
Michael is a consultative curator at the Glencairn Museum in Bryn
Athyn, Pennsylvania. He has served on the board of the
International Center of Medieval Art and as President both of the
American Committee of the International Corpus Vitrearum and of his
local school board. When not teaching, writing, or pursuing art
historical research, you can find him hiking in the red rocks
around Sedona, Arizona.
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