Dr. Barbara Shailor

Biography

Barbara Shailor is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University, specializing in Latin paleography and codicology. Her work focuses on the study of Visigothic manuscripts from northern Spain during the tenth and eleventh centuries. She has published significant works, including the award-winning volume 'The Medieval Book' with the University of Toronto Press, which is now in its sixth printing. Additionally, she has contributed to the 'Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts' in three volumes at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Shailor has a rich history at Yale, where she began in 2001 as the Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and later became the Deputy Provost for Arts until her retirement in December 2012. Prior to her tenure at Yale, she served as Dean at Douglass College and as a Professor of Classics at Rutgers University from 1996 to 2001. Her academic career also includes roles at Bucknell University from 1975 to 1996. Shailor has been involved in significant initiatives such as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for 'Digitally Enabled Scholarship on Medieval Manuscripts at Yale University' and has received multiple grants from organizations including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. She has held positions such as Trustee of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and was elected to the Comité Internationale de paléographie latine in 2000.

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