The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship has presented Jennifer Borland, professor of art history at Oklahoma State University, with the Best First Book Award for Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps (Penn State University Press, 2024).
Dr. Borland has been a faculty member with Oklahoma State University for nearly two decades. In addition to her teaching appointment, she serves as the founding director of the Center for Humanities. She has held several other positions throughout her tenure with the university, including director of the Digital Humanities Initiative, interim department head, associate department head, director of graduate studies in art history, and faculty fellow for community engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences.
As an art historian, Dr. Borland focuses her work on medieval medical and scientific imagery, medievalism and collecting, materiality, the corporeal experience of objects and spaces, audience and reception, representations of gender, digital humanities, and engaged art history. She currently serves as co-editor of the journal Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art.
Dr. Borland received her bachelor’s degree in the history of art from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in art history from Stanford University in California.