Claire Kilgore
Position title: Ph.D. Candidate; Teaching Assistant (Religious Studies)
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Email: ckilgore@wisc.edu
Education
B.A. The College of William & Mary, 2014
M.A. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2017
Biography
Claire Kilgore is a Ph.D. Candidate studying late medieval art and religious practice. She received her Masters in Art History from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2017, where her thesis examined the materiality and optics of rock crystal reliquaries belonging to the Aachen treasury. Her current interests center on the materiality, practice, and reception of late medieval religion and religious objects by women. Claire’s dissertation project is titled, “Sensing the Bodily Interior: Visualizing Pregnancy and Reproductive Anatomy in Central Europe, 1300–1550.” Her research investigates these questions through the study of dress and textiles as well as depictions of female bodies, anatomy, and maternity.
Publications
“Clothing the City’s Martyrs: Weaving and Spinning in Late Medieval Cologne and Devotion to the Cult of the Eleven Thousand Virgins,” (under peer-review).
Review of The Care of Nuns: The Ministries of Benedictine Women in England during the Central Middle Ages, by Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 51 (2020):253–55.
Awards
2023 Medieval Academy of America Helen Maud Cam Dissertation Grant
Primary Advisor(s)
Thomas E. A. Dale