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Shirley Ann Brown

Department of Humanities

Senior Scholar

Office: 232 Vanier
Email: sabrown@yorku.ca
Primary website: https://www.yorku.ca/sabrown/

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Shirley Ann Brown is a medievalist whose teaching and research interests include Medieval Art and Architecture of the British Isles, the History of Stained Glass/Stained Glass in Canada, and Art History Methodology. She taught previously at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, and at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.

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Shirley Ann Brown is a medievalist whose teaching and research interests include Medieval Art and Architecture of the British Isles, the History of Stained Glass/Stained Glass in Canada, and Art History Methodology. She taught previously at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, and at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She has lived and travelled extensively in Europe, reading English medieval History with Denis Bethel at University College, Dublin. She spent an additional year in research at the Institut fur Kunstgeschichte in Munich. Prof. Brown is the founding Director of the Registry of Stained Glass Windows in Canada. During Winter Term 2007, Prof. Brown was Visiting Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of California at Berkeley

Degrees

PhD, Cornell University
MA, Ohio State University
BID, University of Manitoba

Appointments

Faculty of Fine Arts

Research Interests

Architectural Stained Glass in Canada, Bayeux Tapestry, Early Medieval Celtic Imagery