Dustin Aaron

Dustin Aaron is an Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), specializing in the art and architecture of the European Middle Ages. His research focuses on intersections between art making, colonialism, environmental history, and political medievalism in Central and Eastern Europe. He is currently writing a book on craft's role in medieval perceptions of wilderness.

Education:

• BA, Brandeis University
• MA, Courtauld Institute of Art
• PhD, New York University

His work has been supported by organizations including the Medieval Academy of America, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, DAAD, and the Remarque Institute. Research interests include medieval visual rhetoric, environmental art history, and the historiographic legacy of Ostforschung. Lecture topics encompass illuminated manuscripts, architectural history, and 20th-century political medievalism's legacies.

Key projects explore pre-modern colonization's material culture and the relationship between memory, landscape, and environmental history. His published work appears in venues like The Art Bulletin.