Prof. Ittai Weinryb

ACADEMIC HOST
Prof. Renana Bartal
History of Art Department

IAS Distinguished Scholar
6.12.26-3.1.27

Education

• B.A., Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel — Double Major, European History and Art History (2003)
• M.A., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (2004)
• Visiting Student, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (2007)
• Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (2010)

Professional Experience

• Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York (2025–)
• Associate Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York (2017)
• Assistant Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York (2010)

Awards & Fellowships

• Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2022)
• Wissenschaftlicher Gast, Global Horizons in Pre-Modern Art, Bern University (2021)
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2019)
• Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, DC (2019)
• A+C Book Prize for Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place (2019)
• New York Times Best Art Book, selected by Holland Cotter, for Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place (2018)
• International Center for Medieval Art Book Prize for The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages (2017)
• Franklin Grant, American Philosophical Society (2017)
• Fellow, Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, Forum transregionale Studien, Berlin (2014)
• Honorable Mention, Historians of German and Central European Art Association essay prize, for "Living Matter: Materiality, Maker and Ornament in the Middle Ages" (2013)
• Andrew Mellon Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2012)
• Max Planck Doctoral Fellow, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max Planck Institute (2008/9)
• Robert and Nancy Hall Fellowship, The Walters Museum of Art, Baltimore (2006)

Editorial Boards

• Contributing Editor, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2025–)
• Editor, West 86th, A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture (2020–2026)
• Board Member, Gesta, International Center of Medieval Art (2020–2025)
• Board Member, The Art Bulletin, College Art Association (2017–2021)
• Board Member, Cultural Histories of the Material World monograph series, Bard Graduate Center and University of Michigan Press (2009–)
• Board Member, West 86th, A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture (2009–)

Research

• Medieval art history, with a focus on materiality, craft, and the ontology of objects
• Bronze and metalwork in medieval Europe and the Middle East
• Votive objects and ex-votos across cultures and time periods
• Art and material culture of the medieval Black Sea and frontier regions
• Astrolabes, astrology, and scientific instruments in the Middle Ages
• Global and cross-cultural approaches to medieval art history
• Trade, commerce, and the "Body of the Merchant" in medieval art and experience