RESEARCH: 

Dr Harvey is Associate Director of the Madison Art Collection and Assistant Professor in Art History. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) and the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA), and has been a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2018-19), the British School at Rome (2015-26; 2020-21) and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (2025).
 
Dr Harvey’s research explores how viewers engage with artworks, how images make meaning, and how the encounter with art transforms viewers. Her first book, forthcoming with Routledge, considers how the Greek-rite and/or language community in the Salento (the heel of the Italian boot) engaged with the frescoes in the Franciscan church of Santa Caterina, erected in the majority-Greek town of Galatina (LE). It argues that this encounter was central to processes of identity-production, constructing the local Greek community as both descendants of ancient Athenians and autochthonous to the region. Her second book project, for which she was awarded a Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellowship at CASVA, explores how a selection of Trecento artworks open up possibilities for meaning in a context, like that of the early 1300s, characterised by rising wealth inequality, climate instability, the emergence of economic discourse, and strident debates over the effect of wealth on ethics and wisdom.
 
Dr Harvey’s research in how images make meaning includes or has included misunderstandings and radical reinterpretations (‘Icon, Souvenir, Contact Relic’), modern and contemporary narratives (chiefly the distorting effects of the Questione Meridionale), art historiographical methodologies (Unruly Iconographies) and fundamental questions of historical method (a project on lamentations and the use of visual culture as ‘documentation.’) Since 2023, she has been working with colleagues Dr Sarah K. Kozlowski (O'Donnell Institute; University of Texas at Dallas) and Dr Ali Alibhai (University of Texas at Dallas), plus those at La Capraia (a partnership between the O'Donnell Institute at UT Dallas and the Museo di Capodimonte) and the Index of Medieval Art (Princeton University), on the Unruly Iconographies project, which investigates the seeming existence of ‘exceptional’ iconographies in the medieval Italian south and asks whether – or to what extent – they are created by disciplinary models.
 
TEACHING:

Dr Harvey supervises the internship programme at the Madison Art Collection and is the co-coordinator for the Classical Studies Minor. She teaches widely across the medieval and pre-modern Mediterranean art, with a focus on gender (ARTH327/427: Medieval women and art), identity (HIST365: Legacies of Rome) and the art of fourteenth-century Italy (ARTH427: Painting Poverty). 
 
PUBLICATIONS:

• 'Innovation and archaisms in Raimondo del Balzo Orsini’s Santa Caterina in Galatina (c.1385-1391)’, Arte Medievale, IV/XII (2022), 155-174.
• ‘From Provence to Calabria: Filippo Sangineto and Simone Martini’s St Ladislas,’ Convivium, IX/2 (2022), 82-101. 
• ‘Icon, Souvenir, Contact Relic: the Metropolitan Museum’s Virgin Eleousa Micromosaic Icon,’ Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 56 (2021), 113-131. Available here: https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/harvey-metropolitan-museum-journal-v-56-2021 
• ‘Interrogating remains, destroying the past: art history and heritage conservation in southern Italy’, Immediations: the Courtauld Institute of Art Journal of Postgraduate Research, Vol.  18 (2021), available online: shorturl.at/ikotM