Dr. Kathryn Barush is an art historian whose teaching and research explores the dynamic ways that the arts can shape culture and community. She holds a D.Phil. and M.St., both from Wadham College, University of Oxford, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her recent book, Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience (New York: Bloomsbury) has been praised as being ‘well-written, creatively constructed, and accessible’ and for its multidisciplinary approach engaging ‘material religion, multiculturalism, history, pluralism, dialogical encounter, spiritual expression, disability, illness,...
