Biography

Alice Klima is an art and architectural historian specializing in Eastern and Central European medieval built environments. She received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from Brown University. 

She is particularly interested in the meaning of art and architecture as generated through daily use and function of space, especially in monastic communities and religious spaces. She has presented her work at international conferences including the College Art Association, Society of Architectural Historians, and the International Medieval Congresses at Leeds, UK and Kalamazoo, MI. Her recent publication titled “Entwined Meanings and Organic Form at the Prague Cathedral Royal Oratory” in Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture (Brill, 2023) considers politics, religious reform, and theoretical implications of a royal monument. Currently, she is continuing to explore the late medieval Bohemian built environment, especially prismatic vaulting designs utilized to reconstruct war-damaged spaces.

Prior to teaching at the University of Florida she has taught a broad range of art history classes at the Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University and the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia.