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Lindsay S. Cook, PhD

Assistant Teaching Professor of Architectural History
Penn State University

An architectural historian, medievalist, digital humanist, translator, and digital preservation advocate, Dr. Lindsay Cook earned her B.A. in Art History and French & Francophone Studies from Vassar College and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University. She taught at Columbia, Vassar, and Ball State before arriving at Penn State University, where she is currently Assistant Teaching Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Art History. A specialist in medieval European architecture, Dr. Cook’s current research addresses the Gothic cathedral Notre-Dame of Paris, medievalism in African American architecture, Gothic architectural space, and digital and material approaches to historic preservation.

Her scholarly articles about Notre-Dame have appeared in the journals Future Anterior and Different Visions and the edited volume The Analysis of Gothic Architecture (Brill, 2023). Notre Dame Cathedral: Nine Centuries of History, her English translation of the French-language monograph by Dany Sandron and Andrew Tallon, was published by Penn State University Press in 2020. She is currently completing her own monograph about architectural and artistic responses to the cathedral of Paris from the twelfth century to the present. Since the 2019 Notre-Dame fire, her public-facing scholarship has made reliable information about the history, conservation, and restoration of Notre-Dame available to students and the general public.

Dr. Cook was a member of the multi-year digital humanities projects Mapping Gothic, Life of a Cathedral: Notre-Dame of Amiens, and Musiconis. From 2021-2024, she chaired the Digital Resources Committee of the International Center of Medieval Art. She is Co-Director of the Consortium for Early Modern and Medieval Studies at Penn State, a board member of the scholarly association Scientifiques de Notre-Dame, and an advisory board member of the traditional crafts educational non-profit Handshouse Studio.

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