Sarah Cohen

Sarah F. Cohen is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in the Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic art of Venice and its colonial territories of Cyprus and Crete. She holds B.A. degrees in Classics and Art History from the College of Charleston (2017) and received her M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU (2019). During her Master’s, Sarah assisted NYU’s ongoing excavations in Aphrodisias, Turkey, and held internships at The Morgan Library & Museum. 

Since entering the Ph.D. program in 2019, Sarah has been appointed the Frieda B. and Milton F. Rosenthal Art History Fellow (2021-2022), GSAS Teaching Fellow in Columbia’s Core Curriculum (2022-2023), and Lead Teaching Fellow (2022-2023). 

She is currently working on her dissertation, “The Icons of San Marco: Images, Relics, and the History of their Veneration in the Doge’s Chapel, ca. 1100-1500,” supervised by Professor Holger A. Klein. While writing, she has served as a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Venetian Research Fellow (2023-2024), Packard Humanities Institute Casa Muraro Venetian Summer Research Fellow (2024/2025), Ca’ Foscari University visiting researcher in the Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali (2024-2025), and Istanbul Research Institute Fellow (2025). She is currently the 2025-2027 Samuel H. Kress History of Art Institutional Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence.