Bernadine Barnes is a professor of renaissance history at Wake Forest University. In addition to teaching art history at the university, Barnes has been published multiple times for her work on Michelangelo. Additionally, Barnes is at the forefront of online teaching at Wake Forest, and she is one of the core faculty for the university’s Eurotour.
What brought you into academia, specifically art history?
Well, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and I got my undergrad at the University of Illinois, but then I got my graduate degree first at Pittsburgh and then the University of Virginia … That was where I did my Ph.