Jean Givens

Jean A. Givens
Associate Professor of Art History
PhD, University of California–Berkeley
jean.givens@uconn.edu

Jean Givens is Associate Professor of Art History.  Her research centers on medieval England and France as well the history of history of visual and verbal literacy. She has published two books: Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1220-1550, this last co-edited with historians of science, Karen Reeds and Alain Touwaide (Ashgate, 2006). A new book on medieval and early modern scientific illustration, Picturing the Healing Arts, is nearing completion. She has received grants and fellowships from the J. Paul Getty Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and most recently, fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (2004-05) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (2006-07).

Professor Givens attended the University of California at Berkeley and her degrees include a B.A. in Graphic Design as well as the Ph.D. in History of Art. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Fiji Islands for three years before joining the UCONN faculty in 1987. She was honored with appointment as a University of Connecticut Teaching Fellow in 1997.