Dr. Andrew Sears

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

• David E. Finley Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2018 – 2021
• Fellowship, International Scholarship Programme, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Bode Museum, 2017 / Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für die Ausstellung Unvergleichlich: Kunst aus Afrika im Bode-Museum, kuratiert von Julien Chapuis, Jonathan Fine, und Paola Ivanov
• Fellowship, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, “Ethics and Architecture” Research Group, 2016
• John Boswell Dissertation Grant, Medieval Academy of America, 2016
• Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley, 2015
• Max Kade Foundation Summer Travel Grant, 2015
• Hellman Foundation Fellowship, 2015 – 2016
• Summer Research Fellowship, Universität zu Köln, Kunsthistorisches Institut, 2014
• Fellowship, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Middlebury German School, 2013
• Mellon-Berkeley Fellowship, 2012 – 2016

Papers Given

Lectures

• “St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins: Patron Saints of Trade,” CASVA/NGA, February 2021
• “Marketing Saints: The Serial Production of Mechelen Statuettes,” Universität Bern, Berner Mittelalterzentrum, March 2019
• “Weaving, Spinning, Sewing: Dressing Relics at Herkenrode Abbey,” University of Cambridge, Medieval Art Seminar Series, October 2018
• “‘Embroidered Heads’: St. Ursula’s Skulls and the Cologne Textile Trade, 1500,” Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, December 2016

Conference Presentations

• “Reliquaries Moving through the Rhine-Meuse Region,” Forum Kunst des Mittelalters, September 2019
• “‘Embroidered Heads’: St. Ursula’s Skulls and the Cologne Textile Trade, 1500,” Renaissance Society of America, March 2018
• “The Value of Reliquaries in the Hanseatic League, 1300-1500,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2016
• “New Relic Findings at Roermond Munsterkerk,” Roermond Munsterkerk, April 2016
• “Reliquaries and Value in the Hanseatic League, 1200-1500,” Universität Zürich, Brackweder Arbeitskreis für Mittelalterforschung, November 2015
• “The Rise of Pictorial Narrative in the Cult of St. Ursula,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2015
• “Wondrous Wondering: European Reception of Sapi-Portuguese Saltcellars c. 1500,” The Ohio State University, April 2014
• “Envisioning Sacredness: The Rise of Pictorial Narrative in the Cult of St. Ursula,” McGill University, March 2014

Conferences and Panels Organized

• “Regionalism in Medieval Art & Architecture,” Kalamazoo, May 2018, organized with Mark Summers
• “The Idea of Luxury and the Role of the Object,” Kalamazoo, May 2017, organized with Laura Tillery
• “Early Modern Color: Perception and Material Across Cultures,” UC Berkeley, April 2015, organized with Grace Harpster and Jessica Stair
• “Spaces of Cultural Change in Early Modern Africa,” UC Berkeley, March 2015, organized with Grace Harpster and Jessica Stair
• “Identity in the Early Modern,” UC Berkeley, December 2014, organized with Grace Harpster and Jessica Stair
• “Invisibility—Illegibility,” UC Berkeley Graduate Symposium, April 2014, organized with Sarah Cowan, Jez Flores, Emma Silverman, and Jon Soriano

Professional Service

• Chair, International Center of Medieval Art Student Committee, 2016 – 2018
• Graduate Student Representative, History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2014 – 2015
• Co-Chair, Berkeley Townsend Center Working Group, “Mobilities and Materialities in the Early Modern World,” 2014 – 2015