Emmaleigh Huston is a doctoral student working with Dr. Erika Loic. She studies the visual culture of the medieval Mediterranean with a focus on issues of patronage, gender, and iconographic syncretism in twelfth-century Sicily.

Emmaleigh received her BA in Art History with a minor in Ancient Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 2018 and her MA in Art History with a concentration in the visual culture of the medieval Mediterranean from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2021. She has presented at the Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Newberry Library (2020), the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies (2021), and the Medieval & Early Modern Studies Festival at the University of Kent (2021).

Emmaleigh currently serves on the Department of Art History’s Graduate Student Symposium Committee (2022-24) and is Editor-in-Chief of the Department of Art History’s peer-reviewed journal, Athanor vol. 40 (forthcoming). Outside of FSU, Emmaleigh serves as a member of the Student Committee of the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) and is co-chair of the ICMA’s Oral History Project.