Emma Leidy

Emma began her Ph.D. studies at Columbia in 2021. She specializes in Medieval Art and is particularly interested in central Europe. She received her B.A. from the University of Virginia in Art History and German Languages and Literature, receiving Highest Honors (2019). Her Distinguished Major’s Thesis, entitled “Liturgical Splendor and Paschal Devotion: Homiliary W.148 in the Walters Art Museum” and awarded best undergraduate thesis by the UVA Department of Art in 2019, investigates a fourteenth-century homiliary in the context of female monasticism and piety in the late Middle Ages. Emma also holds an M.A. from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany (2021), writing her Master’s thesis on the development and dispersion of Marian images in fourteenth-century Bohemia. Her M.A. studies were supported by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). She previously held an internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2019).