Michael W. Cothren is co-author of the 4th and 5th editions of Marilyn Stokstad's series of art history survey textbooks (including Art History and Art: A Brief History, published by Pearson), conceived and first written in the 1990s for a new generation of American college students. He has also published widely on Gothic Stained Glass, notably Picturing the Celestial City: The Medieval Stained Glass of Beauvais Cathedral (Princeton, 2006) and numerous articles in scholarly and popular journals. He is Scheuer Family Professor of Humanites and Chair of the Department of Art at Swarthmore College, where for over 30 years he has taught courses on Medieval, Roman, and Islamic art and architecture, as well as seminars on theory and method. His favorite teaching assignment, however, is the introductory survey. Michael is also a consultative curator at the Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, which houses the most distinguished collection of medieval stained glass in North America. His research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the America Philosophical Society, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has served on the board of the International Center of Medieval Art and as President both of the American Committee of the international Corpus Vitrearum and of his local school board. When not teaching or engaged in art historical research, you can finding him hiking in the red rocks around Sedona, Arizona.