Jan 26, 2026 Alison Locke Perchuk appointed to editorial board for Gesta

Alison Locke Perchuk, Professor of Art History at CSUCI has been appointed to a three-year position on the editorial board for Gesta, the primary U.S. journal for medieval art history.

The editorial board provides valuable service to the journal, advising the editors on policy, encouraging submissions from members' areas of expertise, and refereeing and suggesting referees for submissions. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the International Center of Medieval Art, Gesta presents original research on medieval art and architecture. The journal embraces all facets of artistic production from ca. 300 to ca. 1500 C.E. in every corner of the medieval world. Founded in 1964, Gesta is currently edited by Kathryn M. Rudy, FBA, FRSE and Bishop Wardlaw Professor at the University of St. Andrews, and Heather Pulliam, Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Edinburgh.

A recognized leader in medieval art scholarship, Gesta has twice been awarded the annual Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize of the Medieval Academy of America for a "first article in medieval studies judged . . . to be of outstanding quality." One of these awards recognized Perchuk's scholarship, "Schismatic (Re)Visions: S. Elia near Nepi and S. Maria in Trastevere in Rome, 1120-43," Gesta 55/2 (2016): 179-212, which received the award in 2018. A specialist in medieval Italian and European art ca. 1000-1200 and in medievalism, Perchuk speaks nationally and internationally, in both English and Italian, on such topics as communal identity in medieval art, imagery of the Apocalypse, and neomedieval architecture in Southern California. Her first book, The Medieval Monastery of Saint Elijah: A History in Paint and Stone, Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages, no. 17 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), received the 2024 Karen Gould Prize in Art History from the Medieval Academy of America; an Italian translation was published by the Società Romana di Storia Patria in 2023.

Perchuk's scholarship has been supported by grants and fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, The Huntington, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, as well as by CSUCI's Provost's, Dean of Arts & Sciences, and the Research and Grants Committee.

A graduate of Williams College, the Catholic University of America, and Yale University, Perchuk has taught at CSUCI since 2012.