Sam Truman is the 2023–2025 Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art and a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University. Her thesis focuses on representations of ghosts in Northern European medieval manuscripts produced between approximately 1100 and 1500. Sam has a BA in Liberal Studies from Shimer College and an MA in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She has previously held internships at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.