Advisors
Professor Madeline H. Caviness
Madeline H. Caviness is a renowned scholar of medieval art, particularly medieval stained glass. She is the Mary Richardson Professor and Professor of the History of Art Emerita, Tufts University. Her ongoing research explores feminist theory in the context of medieval art objects. Her awards are numerous, most recently: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Tufts University Award for Distinguished Research and the Seymour Simches Award for Teaching and Advising (2005); and the Distinguished Senior Scholar Award, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation (2005).
She has served as President of the Union Académique Internationale, which fosters international collaboration for humanities projects organized by academics, such as language atlases, dictionaries, archaeological inventories and maps, and text editions. She is also a former President of Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, US. Madeline lives in Boston.
Nick Dierman
Nick Dierman is a real estate attorney in Los Angeles and is the West Coast counsel to Federal Realty Investment Trust, a Bethesda, Md.-based shopping center and property development company. Prior to working at Federal, Nick was Senior Corporate Counsel at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s Los Angeles office and, in addition to working on issues pertaining to American shopping centers under the Westfield brand, Nick worked on cross-border projects with Unibail-Rodamco’s European portfolio of properties. Nick was raised in Washington, D.C. and attended university at Columbia University in New York and graduated with a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He is passionate about urbanism, history, architecture and languages, also an inveterate francophile.
Jill K.H. Geoffrion
The Rev. Jill K. H. Geoffrion is well-known for her work and seven publications on the labyrinth, two of which focus on the Chartres labyrinth. She has published a guide for pilgrims and retreatants at Chartres and spends a considerable part of each year in residence there. Her work as a professional photographer points to the unique character and inspiration of this church, as well as other sacred sites around the world. As a guide, workshop leader and retreat facilitator, she enjoys connecting the spiritual needs of those who come to Chartres. She also enjoys guiding visitors in enhancing their photography skills to get the best possible shots of this glorious edifice.
Tiphaine Guillabert-Madinier
Dr. Tiphaine Guillabert-Madinier is a French historian specializing in Early Modern History with a Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. She’s an alumna of École Normale Supérieure, with a background in History and Art History. Her experience includes positions at Harvard University and the Institut Catholique de Paris, as well as teaching history at a top high school in France. She has also volunteered as a religious instructor and chorist in Cambridge, MA, and as a long-term member of various Catholic organizations in France.
Gary Hendrix
A half-century ago, after earning a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Gary joined Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) as a researcher in the nascent field of artificial intelligence, At SRI, he became Director of Natural Language Research and Associate Director of the Artificial Intelligence Center. He left SRI to found Symantec Corporation, the PC-software company that first brought AI to a mass market. Symantec developed many types of software products for the PC, including anti-virus software, which met with great success. As Symantec’s focus pivoted to computer security, Gary left the corporate world to settle in the Texas Hill Country with the hope of helping preserve its natural beauty. Today, Gary manages the family ranch on the Pedernales as a wildlife conservation area.
MJ McGregor
MJ McGregor began her career with a fairy-tale grandfather clock business started by her grandfather. She later coordinated programs at the Leadership Institute and Continuing Education of St. Catherine’s University, which led to a transformational experience walking the Chartres Cathedral’s labyrinth. She completed an MAT practicum/thesis on this subject in 2003. MJ owns a pied-à-terre in Chartres with her husband and has facilitated workshops and pilgrimages to the cathedral, where she also volunteers.
Alexis Milcent
Alexis Milcent works as an executive consultant at BlueInc Strategies in the USA. He is also an entrepreneur who co-founded LibriSphaera in France, a publishing house creating handmade premium books with the best French artisans. His career began in Marketing, Strategy & Public Affairs at Michelin, where he had an international career (South America, Europe, China).
A graduate of HEC Paris business school—and former lecturer at Sciences-Po Paris University–he was a member of the Gregorian Choirs of Clermont-Ferrand and Paris, and a former leader of the Rallye des Trompes du Parc aux Cerfs in Versailles, where he grew up.
Professor Ellen M. Shortell
Ellen Shortell is a historian of medieval and early modern art, with a focus on Gothic architecture and stained glass. She is Professor of Art History, Emerita, at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and holds a Masters degree from Tufts and a PhD from Columbia University. She is currently Vice President of the international board of the Corpus Vitrearum, and past chair of the editorial committee of AVISTA (Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art). The subjects of her research and publications include the former collegiate church of Saint-Quentin, one of the great Gothic churches of Picardy, whose 12th- and 13th-century architecture and stained glass are closely related to those of Chartres Cathedral. Ellen lives in Boston.
Anne Marie Woods
Anne Marie Woods has Masters Degrees in French Literature from the University of Chicago and in French and comparative literature from the University of Strasbourg, France. When Anne Marie is not giving tours of Chartres Cathedral, she teaches Public Speaking and Debate at ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique and Écoles Centrale and Supélec in France. She is working with well-known guide Malcolm Miller and is the only full-time American guide in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres. Anne Marie is AFC’s liaison in Chartres with Chartres, sanctuaire du Monde. She resides in Rambouillet, France.
restore and preserve the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres
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