Carolyn Nordengren


Carolyn Nordengren
  • PhD Candidate
  • Late Medieval, Northern Renaissance Art
  • Urbanism and the Built Environment in Italy, 1200-1500
  • Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Scenes

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Biography

Cara Nordengren specializes in late medieval and early modern European art, with a particular focus on the Holy Roman Empire. Cara’s dissertation centers on the city of Cologne, Germany from 1250-1575. Her research delves into the intricate relationship between artwork, location, and audience by exploring how works across the city function as a network that shapes and sustains communal and civic identity.  

In 2021 Cara received the Marilyn J. Stokstad Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Educational Mission of the Art History Department from the University of Kansas. Additionally, in 2022, her paper “Interpretive Multivalency in Tilman Riemenschneider’s Münnerstadt Magdalene” was acknowledged with the Jim Falls Paper Prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the conference of the Mid-America Medieval Association. 



Fields of Study

Late Medieval, Northern Renaissance Art  

Urbanism and the Built Environment in Italy, 1200-1500  

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Scenes 

Education

B.A. in Art History, University of Missouri - Kansas City
M.A. in History of Art, University of Kansas
Graduate Certificate in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kansas