Diane Apostolos-Cappadona is Professor Emerita of Religious Art and Cultural History in the Catholic Studies Program at Georgetown University. She received the Georgetown University Alumni Association Faculty Award for 2008 as well as both the Annual Award for Excellence in the Arts from The Newington-Cropsey Foundation and the Excellence in Teaching Faculty Award from Georgetown University in 2000. During 1996-97, she was a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. Dr. Apostolos-Cappadona is the author of Mary Magdalene: A Visual History (2023); A Guide to Christian Art (2020); Encyclopedia of Women in Religious Art (1996); and the exhibition catalogue for In Search of Mary Magdalene: Images and Traditions (2002). She was a contributor to the Routledge Companion to Eve (2023); The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing (2019); Old Masters, New Women (2019); Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (2007), and

Encyclopedia of Women and World Religions (1999).