2022 Faculty / Service Award Honoree

Jerrilynn Dodds is Harlequin Adair Dammann Chair in the History of Art at Sarah Lawrence College. She taught at City College School of Architecture from 1990 until 2007, and was Special Faculty Advisor to the Provost of CCNY until 2009 (working for nearly 20 years at City College). (She received the CCAP Teacher’s award in 2001). She has also taught at Columbia University, Harvard University and MIT, and led exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other institutions. In 2021, she was Slade Professor of Fine arts at Oxford University, and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College.

Prof. Dodds' scholarly work has centered on issues of transculturation, and how groups form identities through art and architecture, in particular in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula. Among her publications are: Architecture and Ideology of Early Medieval Spain; New York Masjid, the Mosques of New York City, a book that grew from a seminar at CCNY School of Architecture, and Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture, co-authored with Prof. Mara Menocal and Abigail Krasner Balbale. Professor Dodds was editor of the catalogue  Al Andalus:  The Arts of Islamic Spain (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and served as co-curator of the exhibition of the same name, which took place at the Alhambra in Granada and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. She was co-editor and curatorial consultant of The Arts of Medieval Spain (with Little, Moralejo and Williams, Metropolitan Museum of Art); co-editor and consulting curator for Convivencia. The Arts of Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval Iberia (ed., with Glick and Mann, 1992); and, with Edward Sullivan, co editor and curator for Crowning Glory, Images of the Virgin in the Arts of Portugal, (Newark Museum). She has written and directed films regarding the history of architecture: (Journey to St. James (MMA); An Imaginary East (MMA; CINE Golden Eagle Award; MUSE Award); NY Masjid (Storefront for Art and Architecture) and for wider audiences (Hearts and Stones: The Bridge at Mostar). 

In 2018, Professor Dodds was knighted by the government of Spain, as the recipient of the Cruz de la Orden de Mérito Civil (Cross of the Order of Civil Merit).