Meg Bernstein is an art and architectural historian who specializes in medieval Europe. She is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University for the 2020-21 academic year. Meg earned her PhD in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019. She has taught at UCLA, the Courtauld, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Columbia University.
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