Catherine Walden

Catherine Walden is a Senior Academic Program Officer in the Office for Academic Outreach, currently directing the Mellon-funded Race, Place, and Equity program. Prior to this, she was the administrator for another Mellon-funded program to support Indigenous Arts at UVA. Though not Indigenous, she is an active member of the Native and Indigenous Relations Community here at UVA. She also teaches a class in the Engagements Program entitled “You are on Monacan Land.”

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.