Abby Armstrong Check
Position title: Ph.D. Candidate; Religious Studies TA
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Email: ararmstrong@wisc.edu
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Virtual Office Hours: TBA, and by appointment.
Education
B.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2014
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2014
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2017
Biography
Abby’s dissertation project, “Provins: Visualizing Jewish Urban Identity of a Late Medieval French City,” explores how sculpture, architecture, and public space created a range of attitudes toward Provins’ Jewish population during the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.
Publications
Exhibition Report of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript, ICMA News, no. 1 (2023):36–39.
Review of The Medieval Monastery of Saint Elijah: A History in Paint and Stone, by Alison Locke Perchuk, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 53 (2022):266–69.
Awards
2023 Society for Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual International Conference Fellowship
2024 Jim Falls Paper Prize (MAMA Conference), “The St. Joan of Arc Chapel: A Sliver of Medieval France in the Midwest”
2025 Medieval Academy of America Grace Frank Dissertation Grant
Exhibitions
Material Muses: Medieval Devotional Culture and its Afterlives, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (August 23–December 22, 2024), co-curated with Claire Kilgore and Tania Kolarik.
Courses
ART HIST 102: Seeing Through Conspiracy Theories
ART HIST 201: History of Western Art I: From Pyramids to Cathedrals
ART HIST 202: History of Western Art II: From Renaissance to Contemporary
Primary Advisor(s)
Thomas E. A. Dale