Sarah Cohen

Sarah Cohen

Sarah F. Cohen is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in Late Antique, Byzantine, and Medieval art. 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 at the Institute, Sarah assisted NYU’s ongoing excavations in Aphrodisias, Turkey, and held internships at the Institute of Classical Art & Architecture and 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). Her research has centered on the Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic art of Venice and its colonial territories of Cyprus and Crete. 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. Sarah is based in Venice, where she has served as a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Venetian Research Fellow (2023-2024), Packard Humanities Institute Casa Muraro Summer Research Fellow (2024), and Ca’ Foscari University visiting researcher in the Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali (2024-2025).