Johanna (Jody) Seasonwein is the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow for Academic Programs. She serves as the museum's liaison with the university's faculty and graduate students and directs the gallery talks and summer internship programs. An art historian of the Middle Ages, her research interests include the sculpture and architecture of late medieval Europe, the Gothic Revival, the history of collecting medieval art in the United States, and the historiography of the Middle Ages.

Jody has taught at Columbia University and worked on exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. She contributed entries to the catalogue for the exhibition “Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture,” held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006, and on medieval sculptures in Philadelphia-area collections for the forthcoming volume in the series Gothic Sculpture in America. Jody holds a B.A. degree from The Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.