Allie Terry-Fritsch

Allie Terry-Fritsch is Professor of Art History at Bowling Green State University's School of Art. She earned her Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History from the University of Chicago (2005), with earlier degrees from the same institution (M.A. 1998) and Duke University (B.A. in Art History and Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 1996).

Her research investigates sensory experiences of art in Renaissance Italy, Medici patronage politics, performative viewing practices, and connections between violence and visual culture. Terry-Fritsch teaches courses spanning Italian Renaissance art, Baroque art, critical theory, and thematic seminars on topics like 'Art, Ritual and Performance' and 'Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Culture'.

Her publications focus on viewer engagement with sacred spaces, somaesthetic practices in devotional contexts, and political meanings in Florentine art. Recent works analyze immersive installations in Renaissance pilgrimage sites and urban placemaking in Toledo, Ohio. Her 2020 monograph 'Somaesthetic Experience and the Viewer in Medicean Florence' examines body-mind engagement with art as political persuasion.

Awards include the Elliott L. Blinn Award for Faculty-Undergraduate Research Work. She mentors graduate students whose theses have received BGSU's Distinguished Thesis Award.