Jerrilynn D. Dodds

Jerrilynn Dodds is Distinguished Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the School of Architecture of the City College of the City University of New York, and lecturer and consultant at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.. Her work has centered on issues of artistic interaction, and how groups form identities through art and architecture. She is the author of Architecture and Ideology of Early Medieval Spain (London and University Park, 1990); New York Masjid. The Mosques of New York(2002); Al Andalus: The Arts of Islamic Spain(ed., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992); Convivencia. The Arts of Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval Iberia (ed., with Glick and Mann, 1992); "A Short History of Bosnia through Architecture," and "Hearts and Stones: The Destruction of the Bridge at Mostar." among many other publications. Prof. Dodds has also curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions on the subject of cultural interchange as seen through art and architecture (Al Andalus, The Metropolitan Museum, 1992; Convivencia , The Jewish Museum, 1992; The Mosques of New York, Storefront for Art and Architecture, 1996, Crowning Glory: The Virgin in the Arts of Portugal, The Newark Museum, 1997). As a prize-winning filmmaker, Professor Dodds writes and directs films in conjunction with museum exhibitions (Journey to St. James; An Imaginary East; NY Masjid) and for public television audiences (Hearts and Stones: The Bridge at Mostar). Professor Dodds lectures internationally and has served as a consultant for a broad selection of contemporary organizations bridging the Muslim global community and the United States, including the historic preservation of monuments. Among the other institutions at which Professor Dodds has taught are Harvard University, MIT and Columbia University. Her latest book The Betrayal of Intimacy: The Formation of Castilian Culture, co-authored with Prof. Maria Menocal and Abigail Krasner, will appear in 2008 with Yale University Press.