Jill M. Pederson

Jill M. Pederson is an Associate Professor of Art History and Interim Dean of Arcadia University's College of Arts and Sciences. She specializes in European art, particularly Italian Renaissance painting, sculpture, and graphic works, with a focus on intellectual, literary, and visual intersections in northern Italy.

• PhD, Art History, Johns Hopkins University (2008)
• MA, Art History, George Washington University (1999)
• BA, Art History, Colorado College (1995)

Her research explores Italian Renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance humanism, gender studies, and early modern court culture. She challenges traditional narratives of artistic genius by emphasizing collaborative networks in Renaissance Milan.

Her publications highlight Leonardo's interactions with Bramante and Milanese scholars, arboreal symbolism in courtly art, and gendered representations of male beauty. Recent work investigates transcultural influences on the Leonardesque pictorial mode.

• Pedretti Fellowship (Renaissance Society of America)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar Grant
• Fulbright Fellowship
• Kress Foundation Fellowship
• Renaissance Society of America Research Grant
• Ahmanson Research Fellowship (UCLA)
• Franklin Research Grant (American Philosophical Society)

Dr. Pederson has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Colorado College, and Catholic University of America. She held a postdoctoral position at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.