Faculty

Dr. Jessica Sponsler received her B.A. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania cum laude and both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, Defining Boundaries of Self and Other in the Girona Beatus of 975, examined identity building in the Christian kingdoms of medieval Iberia.

Dr. Sponsler currently is an assistant professor of art history at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design in Lancaster, PA. She has given talks on medieval art and on teaching strategies for academics in professional art and design colleges and conservatories. She is currently the Vice-President and President-Elect of the Pennsylvania State Conference of the American Association of University Professors.