Dr. Neta Bodner is an art historian whose research focuses on medieval art and (especially) architecture. Her work concentrates on Jewish and Christian religious buildings in the Romanesque and Gothic styles from Germany, Northern Italy and France. Her current project is a monograph on Jewish ritual baths (mikvaot) from Ashkenaz and their intersections with Christian Romanesque. She is PI of a project on the mikveh of Köln funded by the Israel Science Foundation in collaboration with colleagues from Köln and Bar Ilan University and of two projects funded by the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Hub at the Open University.

In 2018-2019 she was a Rothschild Yad-Hanadiv postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford, both as a visiting fellow at the Faculty of History and as a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. In 2016-2018 and again upon return from Oxford in 2019 she was a postdoctoral fellow in the ERC funded project “Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe” headed by Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her project was a comparative analysis of Jewish ritual baths and bathing with Christian baptism and baptisteries in the High Middle Ages. Bodner’s interest in baptisteries began during her Phd on religious architecture in Pisa. She studied the representation of Jerusalem’s sacred sites in Italian architecture as a doctoral fellow in the ERC funded project “SPECTRUm: Visual Translations of Jerusalem to Europe” headed by Prof. Bianca Kühnel. Her B.A. (magna cum laude), M.A. (summa cum laude) and PhD are from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.