Jerrilynn Denise Dodds is an American art historian whose work has focused on artistic identity in Medieval Spain. She is currently a professor of art history at Sarah Lawrence College and formerly served as the dean of the college from 2009 to 2015.^[1]

Biography

Dodds received her B.A. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.^[2]

She taught at Columbia University and City College of New York and was distinguished professor at CCNY before joining the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College as dean.^[3][4] She currently holds the Harlequin Adair Dammann Chair at Sarah Lawrence.^[5] Her research has focused on the issues of artistic interchange between Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval Spain, and how groups form identities through art and architecture.^[2]

Dodds also wrote and directed a number of films on art and architecture, and won a Cine Golden Eagle Award in 1995 for the documentary An Imaginary East.^[6]

She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.^[6][7] In 2017, she was awarded the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at the University of Oxford for the 2020–2021 academic year.^[8] In 2018, she was knighted by the government of Spain as the recipient of the Cruz de la Orden de Mérito Civil (Cross of the Order of Civil Merit). [1][2]