Laura Rybicki
Laura Rybicki is a doctoral student and Mellon Cluster Fellow in Medieval Studies. Before attending Northwestern, she earned a BA in History from the University of Texas and an MA in Art History and Museum Studies from Case Western Reserve University. She has previously held positions at the Met Cloisters, Cleveland Museum of Art, and Blanton Museum of Art. Her research focuses on the materiality and reception of late medieval devotional objects from northern Europe, especially Flanders and France. Her work seeks to understand how the ritual use of these artworks, in tandem with their material and visual qualities, informed the meaning of personal devotional practice.