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Annabel J. Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Art & Art History

Contact Info:

Office Location:	114 South Buchanan Blvd
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2025):

• ARTHIST 336.01, PILGRIMAGE AND TOURISM Synopsis

  Smith Wrhs A266, Tu 06:15 PM-08:45 PM

  (also cross-listed as MEDREN 236.01, RELIGION 260.01, VMS 336.01)

• ARTHIST 739S.01, PILGRIMAGE AND TOURISM Synopsis

  Smith Wrhs A266, Tu 06:15 PM-08:45 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	University of London (United Kingdom)	1975
M.A.	The University of Chicago	1969
B.S.	University of Wisconsin, Madison	1966

Specialties:

Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
Architectural History
Medieval Architecture
Modern Architecture
Religious Visual Culture
New Technologies for Visualizing Historical Materials

Research Interests:

Annabel Wharton edits the Journal of Medieval and Modern Studies and acts as the department's Director of Graduate Studies. She is presently working on a book tentatively entitled Selling Jerusalem: Marketing the Holy City in the West from the 4th to the 21st Century.

Keywords:

Byzantium • Jerusalem • Art History • Medieval

Current Ph.D. Students  

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Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Wharton, AJ, Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Themeparks (2006), University of Chicago Press
2. Wharton, AJ, Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture (2001), Chicago: University of Chicago Press (selected as one of the best books of 2001 by the Economist.)
3. Wharton, AJ, Refiguring the Post Classical City: Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem and Ravenna (1995), New York: Cambridge University Press
4. Wharton, AJ, Art of Empire: Painting and Architecture of the Byzantine Periphery. A Comparative Study of Four Provinces (1988), University Park, Pa & London: Pennsylvania State University Press
5. Wharton, AJ, Tokali Kilise. Tenth Century Metropolitan Art in Byzantine Cappadocia, Dumbarton Oaks Studies XXII (1986), Washinton, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees of Harvard University
6. Kazhdan, AP; Wharton AJ, Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (1985), Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press (Reprinted in paperback, 1990.)