Meg Bernstein is a PhD candidate in Art History at UCLA, where she is writing her dissertation about the architecture of parish churches in twelfth and thirteenth century England; her dissertation research was conducted while Samuel H. Kress fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where she was also Associate Lecturer. She holds a BA in Art History and English literature from Smith College, and MAs in Art History (UMass Amherst) and Religion and the visual arts (Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music.