Alexis Wang is Assistant Professor of art history at Binghamton University and a Research Scholar at the Institute of Sacred Music. She earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University, specializing in the visual and material cultures of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean basin. Her current research focuses on issues of materiality, cross-cultural exchange, and the intersections of art, science, and devotion in the medieval world. She is currently at work on her book project, The Embedded Object: Intermedial Surfaces in Medieval Mural Decoration, which is the first comprehensive study of the practice of embedding devotional objects, such as relics and painted panels, into monumental mural images in medieval Italian churches. Wang’s research has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Bibliotheca Hertziana, and the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome.