Caroline Van Cauwenberge is a Ph.D. student in Art History at Rutgers University, specializing in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Northern European manuscripts. She has a special interest in the intersections of manuscript and print culture, focusing on hybrid and transitional books that illuminate shifting practices of book production in the late Middle Ages. Her broader research engages with questions of intermediality and materiality across manuscript and print.
She also pursues curatorial projects. Most recently, she contributed to the exhibition "Books of Hours, Books of Hope" (Groeningemuseum, Bruges, 2025), authoring the essay “Big Business: Books of Hours and Their Makers in Fifteenth-Century Bruges” for the accompanying publication. Her academic/curatorial training further includes participation in Rare Book School (Princeton, 2025) and the Summer Course for Flemish Art (2024).
At Rutgers, Caroline has taught the online undergraduate survey “Art History 106: 1400–Now” and currently leads the Honors Thesis Seminar. She has also served on several committees of the Art History Graduate Student Organization and in 2025–26 is Faculty Liaison and a member of the Professional Development Committee.
Alongside her academic work, Caroline is Digital Content Coordinator for The Leiden Collection in New York, where she manages scholarly publications and digital platforms. She previously worked with Christie’s (Brussels), TEFAF (New York), and David Tunick, Inc. She holds an MA in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art and degrees in Art History and Business Economics (Finance) from KU Leuven.
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