Johanna G. Seasonwein serves as the Museum’s liaison with the University’s faculty and graduate students and directs the gallery talks and summer internship programs. Johanna comes to Princeton from Columbia University, where she recently defended her doctoral dissertation, “The Nursing Queen: Sculptures of the Virgo Lactans in Late Medieval France.” Her research interests include the sculpture and architecture of late medieval Europe, the Gothic Revival, the history of collecting medieval art in the United States, and the historiography of the Middle Ages.

Johanna has taught at Columbia University and worked on exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. She contributed entries to the catalogue for the exhibition Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006, and on medieval sculptures in Philadelphia-area collections for the forthcoming volume in the series Gothic Sculpture in America. She also participated in a field study of Romanesque architecture in the French region of the Bourbonnais, under the direction of Professor Stephen Murray. Johanna holds a B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University and M.A. and M.Phil. degrees from Columbia University.