Dr. Lauren Fogle Boyd is a professor of medieval history at UMass Lowell. She guest lectures on the subject of Nazi art looting for educational, business and social groups and teaches a course entitled “Art and the Nazis.” She is also the author of Colonial Marblehead: From Rogues to Revolutionaries (The History Press, 2008) and The King’s Converts: Jewish Conversion in Medieval London (The Lexington Press, 2018). The Altarpiece is her first novel.