Emma Dove is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Virginia studying with Dr. Eric Ramírez-Weaver. Her dissertation, “Distributed Gender in Franco-Flemish Books of Hours: Conception, Compassion, and Cultivating the Pious Family, 1440 – 1531,” brings together her interests in late-medieval prayer books, gender, spirituality, material culture, and the digital humanities.

In 2020, Emma received a New Horizons Research Grant from the Medieval Academy of America and a Double Hoo Research Grant from the University of Virginia to create “Digitized Devotion,” a database comparing aspects of manuscript books of hours in the digital collections of the Walters Art Museum, Morgan Library & Museum, and J. Paul Getty Museum.

Emma holds a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Literature from Harvard University. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Graduate Student Committee of the International Center of Medieval Art and a Graduate Coordinator for the UVA Medieval Studies Program.