Sonja Drimmer

Sonja Drimmer is a historian of medieval art and architecture. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

History

How Scientists Use and Abuse Portraiture

Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.

Opinion

Seeing the Bigger Picture on Public Memorials to Women

Recent works, including monuments to Mary Wollstonecraft and Medusa, demonstrate that it’s not that women have a problem with public monuments; it’s that public monuments have a problem with us.