Grace Clipson

Grace Clipson is a PhD student who works on the art and architecture of medieval Europe, with a focus on illuminated manuscripts from the twelfth through fourteenth centuries. Within these manuscripts, she is particularly interested in issues of space and place; frames and thresholds; relationships between the codicological and architectural; dialogues between the local and global; and gendered and ecocritical readings.

At Yale, she is a Sumner McKnight Crosby Fellow and a Graduate Fellow at the European Studies Council, MacMillan Center.

Grace received her master’s degree (with Distinction) from the University of Oxford in History of Art and Visual Culture. For her master’s thesis, “Framing Devotion: Architectural Renderings in the Queen Mary Psalter and the Taymouth Hours,” she was awarded Oxford’s Best Dissertation in the Cohort Prize. She holds her BA in Art History and Government & Legal Studies from Bowdoin College. 

Prior to Yale, she worked at auction houses and in educational and curatorial roles at The West End Museum and Worcester Art Museum. At the latter, she contributed book chapters and essays to Frontiers of Impressionism: Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum (2024) and WAM 100: Worcester Art Museum Collections Handbook (2024).