Catherine Walden

Program Director, Race, Place, and Equity Mellon Grant

Catherine Walden works in the Office for Academic Outreach as Program Director for the Race, Place, and Equity program, funded by a $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.

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Prior to this, she was the administrator for another Mellon-funded program to support Indigenous Arts at UVA.

She has a PhD in Art and Architectural History and a master’s degree in Architectural History, both from the University of Virginia. She specializes in European medieval art and architecture, and in addition to courses focused on Western Europe, she has taught Byzantine art and architecture, the arts of the Islamic world, and global art history surveys. She is an active member of the Native and Indigenous Relations Community here at UVA.