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Yale Divinity School
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Margaret Olin
Senior Research Scholar
A.B. University of Chicago
A.M. University of Chicago
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Margaret Olin has appointments in the Divinity School as well as the Department of Religious Studies, the Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of the History of Art. Her current research concerns documentary media, Jewish visual culture, and theories of witnessing and commemoration, centering on the following topics: the role of photographic practices in the construction of communities and on interpersonal relationships; sites of human interaction and/or identification, including shared spaces, where people mingle with others in imagination and reality; the impact of perceptual theory on visuality; and the visual construction of Jewish identity. She is the author of Forms of Representation in Alois Riegl’s Theory of Art (Penn State Press, 1992), The Nation Without Art: Examining Modern Discourses in Jewish Art (University of Nebraska, 2001), and co-editor with Robert S. Nelson of Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade (University of Chicago Press, 2003). She is also coeditor, with Steven Fine and Vivian Mann, of the journal Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, published by Brill. Prior to her appointment at Yale in 2009 she was professor in the departments of Art History, Theory and Criticism, and Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.