Dale Kinney

Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus of the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of History of Art
Dale Kinney headshot

Areas of Focus

Art, architecture, and topography of Rome in the later middle ages; historiography; spolia

Biography

Dale Kinney joined the Bryn Mawr faculty as a Lecturer in 1972 and retired in 2010 as Eugenia Chase Guild Professor in the Humanities Emeritus and former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2000-2008). Her teaching was recognized by Bryn Mawr’s Lindback Teaching Award in 1984 and by the Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award of the College Art Association in 2002.

Since retiring, Prof. Kinney has been the Samuel H. Kress Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (2016-17), book review editor of Studies in Iconography (2014-17), and has served on the governing boards of the International Center of Medieval Art, the Delaware Valley Medieval Association, and Bryn Mawr’s Friends of the Libraries. She co-edited Reuse Value. Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine with Richard Brilliant (2011) and published various articles in the primary fields of her research, many of which can be found in the BMC Digital Repository and in Academia.edu. Her current projects include a study of the Roman church of S. Maria in Trastevere through art-historical time.