Rate My Professor Daniel Weiss

Weiss returned to Johns Hopkins in 2023 as Homewood Professor of the Humanities and senior advisor to the provost for the arts, chairing the Taskforce on the Arts and leading the Office for the Arts. His scholarly work focuses on the art of the Crusader era, medieval pilgrimage, Byzantium, and the art and architecture of Romanesque and Gothic Europe. Key publications include Art and Crusade in the Age of Saint Louis (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Why the Museum Matters (Yale University Press, 2022), In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam (PublicAffairs, 2019), and Remaking College: Innovation and the Liberal Arts (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, co-author). He has received three teaching awards from Johns Hopkins University, fellowships from Harvard University, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Van Courtlandt Elliott Award from the Medieval Academy of America, and honorary degrees. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he serves on boards including the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Library of America. In late 2025, he was appointed director and CEO of the Philadelphia Art Museum effective December 2025, continuing part-time at Johns Hopkins.