List of Current Members

All current members of the Italian Art Society are displayed alphabetically below. This list is intended to help IAS members gain a sense of the landscape of Italian art studies and to locate colleagues working in areas of mutual interest.

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Member

Affiliation

Research Interests

Joanne Allen

Senior Professorial Lecturer in Art History
American University

Medieval and Renaissance Art and Architecture in Italy; Church Furnishings, especially Choir Stalls and Church Screens

Ilaria Andreoli

Dr. - CNRS (Paris)

Relationship beetween Italy and France in the Renaissance; Early Modern Book illustration; Graphic arts; fake and forgery.

Jaiya Anka

PhD Candidate, Art History & Visual Studies
The University of Victoria (Canada)

Portraiture; Early Modern Mediterranean; Venice, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire; Textiles and Dress; Print Culture

Eric Apfelstadt

Retired

15th- and 16th-century Italian art and architecture in general. Specific current research projects include art and architecture for the Martini-Salviati families in Florence and Venice; the Venetian sculptor, Pompeo di Pietro Grazioli da Salò; and the Florentine painters, Francesco and Raffaello Botticini

Louise Arizzoli

Instructional Assistant Professor of Art History

Italian Renaissance Art
History of Collections
History of Museums
Personifications

Rebecca Arnheim

Boston University

Early Modern Portrait Drawings and their Collecting.

Niall Atkinson

Associate Professor

Medieval and Renaissance Architecture and Urbanism

Meryl Bailey

Associate Professor, Mills College

Renaissance art, Venice, confraternities, painting and printmaking

Jill Bain

Associate Professor, Art History and Visual Studies, UFV (Canada)

Medieval and Early Modern visual culture

Franco Baldasso

Assistant Professor of Italian
Director of Italian Program
Bard College

Modernism and Avant-Garde, Cultural Heritage of Fascism, Art, Memory and Literature in the 20th Century

Carson Barnes

MFA

Sculpture 1800 - 1945, especially funerary

Cristelle Baskins

Associate Professor Emeritus
Tufts University

Italian Renaissance art, Mediterranean visual culture, North Africa, Early Modern Cultural Studies, Material Culture, Historiography

Carlos Basualdo

The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Raffaele Bedarida

Assistant Professor of Art History, Cooper Union, New York

20th century Italian art, art and politics, cultural diplomacy, transnational modernism, cultural exchange between Italy and the US, art under Fascism, Cold War cultural policy, Futurism, Post-WWII Italian art, exhibition history, Arte Povera

Maggie Bell

Assistant Curator, Norton Simon Museum

Early Modern Italian painting and sculpture; history of medicine; history of the senses; representations of poverty in the early modern period

Katherine Bentz

Associate Professor of Art History

Early Modern Rome; Urbanism; Landscape and Garden History

Armin Bergmeier

Dr., Leipzig University

Late Antique, Byzantine and medieval art and architecture

Tenley Bick

Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, Florida State University; Founder and Curator of COSTELLAZIONE (www.costell-azione.com)

Post-WWII and contemporary Italian art; art and politics; Arte Povera, Italian avant-gardism and internationalism; Italian colonialism; contemporary art, race politics, and postcoloniality; art and activism; exchanges between Italy and Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, especially)

Natasha Bishop

Independent Scholar

Post-WWII Italian art; art and politics; performance and protest

Jill Blondin

Executive Director, Global Education Office
Virginia Commonwealth University

Sixtus IV, Rome, the papacy

Silvia Bottinelli

Sr Lecturer, Visual and Material Studies, Tufts University

20th Century Italian Art

Molly Bourne

Faculty Associate and Coordinator, Syracuse University Florence Graduate Program in Italian Renaissance Art

The Gonzaga court 1400-1600

Sara Bova

Ph. D.
Politecnico di Milano

History of Architecture and Urbanism, Architectural Theory, Roman Quattrocento, Roman Architecture, Architectural Education

Katherine T. Brown

Interim Dean, School of Arts & Sciences; Professor of Art History & Museum Studies; Walsh University

Iconography of Mary and Veronica in Early Modern Art
Botanical Symbolism in Early Modern Christian Narratives

Laura Brown

Research Fellow
Northumbria University

Architecture; History of Art, Architecture and Urbanism; Architectural Theory; Sport, Society & Culture; Architectural Heritage; Olympic Games; Iconography of the Stadium

Peter Brown

Professor of Art History
University of North Florida

Romanesque art, monumental art

Charles Buchanan

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts

manuscript illumination, Romanesque, early Middle Ages, Tuscany, Rome

Scott Budzynski

Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design

Architecture and urban history, Modernism, Modern and contemporary art

Kim Butler Wingfield

Associate Professor of Renaissance Art History, American University

Raphael, Michelangelo, humanism, theology, gender and sexuality

Sarah Cadagin

Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia

Nicola (Nick) Camerlenghi

Associate Professor, Dartmouth College

Rome, medieval architecture, domes, digital approaches to art history (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality & GIS)

Erin Campbell

Domestic Interior

Sarah Cantor

Adjunct Professor
Southern Connecticut State University

Art history, early modern, landscape, drawings, prints

Sandra Cardarelli

Honorary Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen

The interplay between centres and peripheries with particular emphasis on fifteenth-century Siena and Florence; Faith and Healing as represented in the Visual Arts; Religious and Secular Authority and Patronage

Danielle Carrabino

Dr. Danielle Carrabino, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Smith College Museum of Art

Renaissance and Baroque art, Caravaggio, Sicily, Counter Reformation, polychrome wood sculpture, women artists

Jill Carrington

Professor of Art History
Stephen F. Austin State University

Venetian and Tuscan Renaissance sculpture

Catherine Carver

Co=Lead, Democracy & Debate Theme Semester, University of Michigan
Visiting Lecturer, Wayne State University

parish architecture of medieval Rome, urban development of Rome, Early Modern reception of medieval architecture, architecture of medieval and Early Modern Italy, architecture of the medieval Mediterranean

Francesca Casamassima

PhD Student, University of Genoa

Art, Iconography, Metamorphoses

Jill Caskey

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga; Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Toronto

medieval art and architecture, southern Italy, pilgrimage, patronage, Mediterranean Studies, Global Middle Ages

Andrew Casper

Associate Professor of Art History, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA

Early modern art history; religious images; Shroud of Turin

Ornella Castiglione

Adjunct Professor
Università di Milano-Bicocca

Cinema and Architecture; Representation of Urban Space; Demolition Iconography; Cinema and Visual Arts; Film-induced tourism; Didactics of Art; Didactics of Cinema and Audiovisual Media; Design of Learning Environments.

Lynn Catterson

Art Historian, Researcher

15C Italian Sculpture, late 19C Art Market, Florence

Bradley Cavallo

PhD, Independent Scholar

Samantha Chang

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto

Music and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

Sandra Cheng

New York City College of Technology, CUNY

Early modern art, caricature.

Giuditta Cirnigliaro

Renaissance Studies, Early Modern Material Culture, Fables, Emblems, Scientific Diagrams

Jasmine Cloud

Associate Professor of Art History
University of Central Missouri

the Roman Forum in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Early Modern Rome, Architecture, Urbanism

Diane Cole Ahl

Rothkopf Professor of Art History emerita, Lafayette College

Trecento and Quattrocento painting, confraternity studies

Robert Randolf Coleman

Professor Emeritus, Art History, University of Notre Dame

Italian Renaissance/Baroque; Old Master Drawings

Lucia Colombari

PhD Candidate, History of Art and Architecture, University of Virginia

Italian modern art; Modernisms and the international avant-gardes; Intersection between art and technology; Cultural institutions and world’s expositions.

Joseph Connors

Research Professor

Italian architecture, Baroque art

Victor Coonin

Professor

Italian Renaissance Art

Tracy Cooper

Professor of Art History, Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University

Visual and material culture of Venice

Sally Cornelison

Professor

Italian art, religion, ritual

Rebecca W Corrie

Phillips Professor of Art and Visual Culture Emerita, Bates College

Italian Medieval and Early Renaissance Art, Manuscript Illumination, Painting of the Crusader States and the Adriatic

Alexis Culotta

Professor of Practice, Tulane University

Sixteenth-century Rome, art and architecture, reuse of antiquities, workshop practice, digital humanities applications

Stefano D'Ovidio

Dr. Stefano D'Ovidio University of Naples Federico II

Medieval art and architecture, Rome, Naples and the South

Julia Daileda

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Sharon Dale

Christopher Daly

Doctoral candidate, Johns Hopkins University

Italian painting 1300-1600, especially in Tuscany (Florence, Lucca, Siena); Jacopo del Sellaio; Botticelli; workshops and artistic partnerships; the practice and history of connoisseurship

Liana De Girolami Cheney

Liana De Girolami Cheney, emerita Prof. of Art History, UMASS Lowell, MA

Italian Mannerism, Renaissance Neoplatonism, Emblems, Iconography and Iconology of the 16th Century, Italian Cultural Studies and Religion

Maria De Prano

Associate Professor, University of California, Merced

Italian Renaissance art, gender, domestic interior, material culture

Anne Derbes

Professor emerita, Hood College

late medieval Italian painting

Danarenae Donato

PhD Student, Boston University

Douglas N. Dow

Associate Professor of Art History

Cinquecento painting, Florence, art and reform, confraternities, patronage, history of style

David Drogin

Professor, History of Art, State University of New York - FIT

15th-century Italian sculpture, Bologna, patronage studies

Anna Dumont

Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University

19th and 20th century Italian textiles, 20th-century avant-gardes, women's labor in Italian art, history of Italian lace, Fascist cultural policy

Martha Dunkelman

Professor Emerita, Canisius College

Bruce Edelstein

Coordinator for Graduate Programs and Advanced Research, NYU Florence

Florence, Naples, Medici Patronage, Gender Studies, Female Patronage, Renaissance, Early Modern

Mary D Edwards

Dr. Mary D. Edwards
Professor, History of Art & Design
Pratt Institute

art of Italy 1200 - 1600

Tracy Ehrlich

Associate Teaching Professor, Parsons New School

Eighteenth-Century Italian drawings, architecture, gardens

Cera Elena

Yvonne Elet

Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, Vassar College

Gillian Elliott

Dr. Gillian B. Elliott
Professorial Lecturer in Art History
George Washington University

Medieval Art
Northern Renaissance Art

Janis Elliott

Associate Professor, Texas Tech University

Trecento art patronage, Angevin kings and queens in Naples and southern Italy

Felicia Else

Professor of Art History, Gettysburg College

16th century Florence, water, fountains, Bartolomeo Ammannati, festivals

Ashley Elston

Associate Professor, Berea College

Judson Emerick

Professor of Art History emeritus
Pomona College
Claremont, CA 91711

Architecture and liturgy in Francia and Italy during early Christian and early medieval times

Mario Erasmo

Professor of Classics
University of Georgia

Classical Antiquity and its Legacy

Clarisse Evrard

Dr in art history
Assistant professor, University of Lille.

Renaissance art, Italian decorative arts, circulation of models, visual studies

Pasquale Fameli

Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna

Contemporary Art and Visual Studies

Gail Feigenbaum

Dr.

Renaissance, artist archives, history of collecting

Deborah Feller

PhD Candidate & Part-Time Lecturer
Rutgers University
Art History Department

Italian & Spanish 17th-century drawing & painting
Counter-Reformation

Sheila ffolliott

Professor Emerita, History and Art History, George Mason University

Catherine de' Medici portraits, 16th and 17th C. women artists and patrons

Cristiana Filippini

Professor - Trinity College, Rome Campus; University of California in Rome

Medieval Art, Medieval Roman Art, Medieval Roman Painting, Seventeenth Century Roman Art, Women's Presence in the Art of Rome, Museum History in Rome

Francesca Fiorani

Professor of Art History, and former Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, University of Virginia

art and science, digital humanities, Leonardo da Vinci, optics, Florence, Rome, cartography, art theory, color theory, artistic perspective, mapping, court art

Allison Fisher

Independent Scholar

Italian Renaissance Art, Classical Tradition, Painting, Ceramics, Textiles, Food History

Theresa Flanigan

Professor, The College of Saint Rose

Italian Medieval and Renaissance art and architectural history

Cathleen Fleck

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Saint Louis University

12-14th century central and southern Italian art, especially Naples; crusader art; Islamic art; cross-cultural exchanges

Alison Fleming

Professor of Art History

Daria Foner

Research Associate to the Director, Morgan Library & Museum

alessandra foscati

PhD.
University of Lisbon

Hagiography, History of medicine, Medieval History, Cultural history

Jack Freiberg

Professor, Department of Art History, Florida State University

Denva Gallant

Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

Manuscript illuminations, Naples

Antje Gamble

Assistant Professor of Art History, Murray State University

Modern Italian Sculpture, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Histories

Francesco Gangemi

PhD

Medieval art and architecture, Epigraphy, Heritage Theory and Conservation

Jessica Garan

Leslie Geddes

Assistant Professor, Tulane University

old master drawings, print culture, cartography, navigation, landscape, architectural history, engineering, Leonardo da Vinci

Dennis Geronimus

Associate Professor of Art History and Department Chair

Italian Renaissance Art

Meredith Gill

Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park

Fourteenth through sixteenth-century art and architecture; history of science; theology and philosophy (especially angelology); Church history; intellectual history; gender studies

Diana Gisolfi

Professor of Art History and Director of Pratt in Venice

Venetian Renaissance art, Materials and Techniques, Catholic Reform, Libraries, Methodologies

Dorothy F Glass

Professor Emerita, State University of New York at Buffalo

Italian Romanesque sculpture, pilgrimage, the historiography of Italian Romanesque sculpture

Heather Graham

California State University, Long Beach

Renaissance art, gender studies, emotions studies, body history

Alessandro Grandolfo

PhD University of Naples 'Federico II'

Renaissance and Baroque Painting, Sculpture and Drawings (with a particular focus on patronage in South of Italy, Rome, Florence and Genua)

Konstantinos Gravanis

PhD Candidate in History and Philosophy of Art (University of Kent, UK)

Visual and Material Culture of the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance Humanism and Neoplatonism, Religious and Political Iconography, Reconstruction of Fragmentary or Lost Decorations, Old Master Drawings, Raphael, Michelangelo, Signorelli

Anne Greeley

Associate Professor of Art History, Chair of the Division of Art + Design, Indiana Wesleyan University

Italian Modernism, Metaphysical Art, Sacred Art

Ryan Gregg

Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Art, Design, and Art History
Webster University

early modern, especially sixteenth century; city views and cartography; military architecture; sculpture

Sharon Gregory

Dr. Sharon Gregory

Giorgio Vasari; Renaissance Prints and Drawings; Italian Renaissance Illustraed Books and book publishers; 16th-C Italian Painting

Jennifer Griffiths

Dr.

Futurism, women artists, critical gender theory, art under Fascism, Magic Realism, humanism, post-humanism, new materialism, feminist theory.

Michael Grillo

Associate Professor, University of Maine

Trecento narration. Images as indices to immediate worldly experience. Sienese school.

Max Grossman

Associate Professor of Art History
The University of Texas at El Paso

Medieval and Renaissance Italian architecture and urbanism

Erik Gustafson

George Mason University

Architecture; Medieval; Renaissance; Franciscans; Tuscany

Lois Haines

CDP PhD Candidate, The Warburg Institute/ National Gallery, London

Italian Renaissance painting; Renaissance painters' workshops; Renaissance Florence; Renaissance Perugia; workshop practice

Morten Hansen

Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study

Early modern art
Mannerism
Gender and sexuality
Religion
Ethnic minorities
Ariosto

Emily Hanson

Ph.D. Candidate
Washington University

Italian Art 1300-1700, Renaissance Sculpture, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Historiography

Catherine Harding

Associate Professor, Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian Art, University of Victoria

Text-and-image relations in Trecento manuscripts; medieval mosaics especially on facades; sacred materiality and presence; pilgrimage on the Via Francigena

Grace Harpster

Assistant Professor, Georgia State University

Early modern Italy, Catholic reform, sacred images

Bennett Harrison

MA Candidate and Florence Fellow, Syracuse University Florence Graduate Program in Italian Renaissance Art

Early modern Italian art (1300-1600), relief sculpture, Mannerism, Italy and the Islamic world, the history of optical science, 20th century Renaissance art historiography, continental philosophy, and Italian cinema.

Mallory Haselberger

PhD Student, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park

Renaissance and Baroque art; women artists; literary and visual culture; artists' books; book history

Andrée Hayum

Professor Emerita, Fordham University

15th & 16th Century painting; Early public museum; History of Exhibitions. Approaches to Renaissance in Fascist period.

Sharon Hecker

Dr.
Independent Scholar

modern and contemporary Italian art

Johanna Heinrichs

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Kentucky

Renaissance architecture and cities, Venice, Andrea Palladio

Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio

Professor of Art History and Associate Dean, University of Vermont

James Hickey

Lover of Italian Art

Sally Hickson

Association Professor Art History

Patronage, history of collections, women's networks, portraits and identity, the social life of art

Diana Hiller

Dr Diana Hiller
Independent scholar

Early modern Italian painting; Christian iconography

Amanda Hilliam

Independent scholar

Carlo Crivelli, drawing practices in Early Modern Italy

Lisa Hillier

Bolognese art of the 15th and 16th centuries; artists' libraries; history of collecting

Cathleen Hoeniger

Prof. Cathleen Hoeniger, Dept. of Art History and Art Conservation, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Trecento Painting esp. Siena, Raphael of Urbino, The History of Restoration/Conservation, Cultural Heritage Preservation, Technical Art History, War and Art Preservation, Reception History & Theory

Beth Holman

Rebecca Howard

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Memphis

Renaissance portraiture and identity, memory, mnemonics

Virginia Hubbell

Virginia Hubbell,

Renaissance Women artists
Eufrasia Burlamacchi

Samantha Hughes-Johnson

Dr Samantha Hughes-Johnson - Independent Scholar

Tiffany Hunt

Dr. Tiffany Lynn Hunt
Independent scholar

Early modern art and architecture

Janna Israel

Renaissance and baroque art and architecture

Julie James

Doctoral Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis

Early Modern Italy (Siena); uomini illustri

Sara N. James

Independent Scholar and Professor Emerita, Mary Baldwin University

Italian Art, medieval and Renaissance
English Art
Art and Liturgy

Claire Jensen

PhD Candidate in Art History at the University of Toronto

Trecento Naples, Frescoes

Ann Johns

Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin

Sienese art and architecture

Gabriella Johnson

Gilbert Jones

14th century civic and sacred processions; 12th Italian crusaders in the Levant; connections between the Holy Land and Trecento Rome; 16th century Venetian convent culture

Tanja Jones

Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, The University of Alabama

Early modern Italian art; portraiture; medals; gender and identity

Hetty Joyce

Dr. Hetty Joyce

Classical, Renaissance/Baroque, Classical tradition

Gregor Kalas

Associate Professor and Riggsby Director

Late Antique and Early Medieval Rome

Evelyn Karet

Ph.D. Columbia University
Retired Professor Clark University

Northern Italian Renaissance drawings and their collectors

Elizabeth Kassler-Taub

Assistant Professor of Art History
Dartmouth College

Dana Katz

Julia Katz

Doctoral Student, Rutgers University

Italian Baroque art and architecture

Allison Kim

Dale Kinney

Professor of History of Art (emerita), Bryn Mawr College

medieval Rome, spolia, Italian architecture

Susan Klaiber

Independent scholar

Renaissance and Baroque architecture; historiography.

Christian Kleinbub

Professor, Ohio State University
Co-director, New Foundation for Art History

Johannes Knoops

Professor at Fashion Institute of Technology/SUNY
Interior Design Department

Aldus Pius Manutius

Clare Kobasa

Linda Koch

Professor Emerita

Medieval and Italian Renaissance art

Caroline Koncz

PhD Candidate, The Ohio State University

Gender and sexuality studies, painting and works on paper from early modern Venice

Sarah Kozlowski

Associate Director, The Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History, The University of Texas at Dallas
Director, Centro per la Storia dell'Arte e dell'Architettura delle Città Portuali, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte / La Capraia

Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century art in Italy in its Eurasian and Mediterranean contexts; medieval and Renaissance Naples

Jillianne Laceste

Boston University

Nora Lambert

Brenna Larson

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan

Katie Larson

Assistant Professor, Art and Art History Department, Baylor University

Modern Italian art history

Claudia Lazzaro

Professor Emerita, Cornell University

art history, gender, portraits, prints, gardens

Anne Leader

Visiting Fellow (non-residential), Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia

Medieval and Renaissance Florence

David Lerner

Post Practical Systems

Bar Leshem

PhD Candidate
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Renaissance Art, Domestic Art, Sixteenth-Century Art, Classical Reception

Alexandra Letvin

Assistant Curator of European and American Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College

William R. Levin

Professor Emeritus of Art History, Centre College

Italian Gothic painting and sculpture, Religious and political iconography, Charitable confraternities and their artistic patrimonies, Works of Mercy in art and literature, Representations of the virtues

Emily Lime

Emily K. Lime, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Ancient Roman art and archaeology; Roman wall painting and sculpture; Roman gardens and domestic space; Pompeian archaeology; classical reception in Renaissance painting and sculpture

Ashley Lindeman

Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, Florida State University

Modern Italian murals, 20th century Italian art, global 20th century muralism

Estelle Lingo

Professor
University of Washington

Angelo Lo Conte

Angelo Lo Conte
Assistant Professor, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University

Social History of Art; Early Modern Art Practice; Art and disability.

Jesse Locker

Associate Professor, Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, Portland State University

Italian Baroque painting, Artemisia Gentileschi, Neapolitan Art, Art and the Counter-Reformation

Ruggero Longo

Associate Professor at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Research collaborator at Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History

Medieval Mediterranean - Norman Sicily, Mosaics and marble decorations

Alison Luchs

Curator of Early European Sculpture
National Gallery of Art

Italian sculpture and painting, medieval through 19th century but especially 15th and 16th centuries

Livia Lupi

Dr
University of Warwick

Intersection of artistic and architectural practice 1300-1700
Wall painting
Rhetoric and the visual arts
Exchanges between the Catholic and Orthodox contexts 1250-1450

Edoardo Maggi

Art Historian and PhD Student at Sapienza University of Rome, SARAS Department - History, Anthropology, Religion, Art and Spectacle.

19th- and 20th-century painting; historical and contemporary photography; visual culture; aesthetics; art theory and criticism.

Jessica Maier

Associate Professor of Art History, Mount Holyoke College

Carolina Mangone

Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Judith Mann

Curator, European Art to 1800
Saint Louis Art Museum

16th/17th-century Italian art; Women Artists (Artemisia Gentileschi); History of painting on stone surfaces;

Jessica Maratsos

Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies
Pembroke College, Cambridge University

Fabio Marcelli

Assistant and Adjunct Professor - University of Perugia

Medieval Art, Renaissance Art, Iconography

Isabella Marchal

Art History Alumna, Dartmouth College

Ancient Roman art and architecture, Trecento and Baroque painting

Lia Markey

Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library

16th century Italy and the New World, prints, drawings, technology, global and race studies

Max Marmor

President, Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Leonardo da Vinci

Louise Marshall

Dr, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Art History, University of Sydney

Renaissance plague art

Aja Martin

PhD Candidate, Rice University

20th Century Art and Film of Italy

Rheagan Martin

Rheagan Eric Martin, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan

Fifteenth-Century Venice, History of the Book, History of Science, Visual Culture

Brian Maxson

Dr.
East Tennessee State University

Italian Renaissance

Robert A Maxwell

Robert A. Maxwell

Daniel Maze

Assistant Professor/University of Iowa

Painting in Renaissance Venice

Timothy McCall

Associate Professor
Villanova University

Alexa McCarthy

PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews

Sixteenth-century Italian Drawings
The Material of Blue Paper

Karen McCluskey

Dr Karen McCluskey University of Notre Dame Australia

art, hagiography, lived religion

Cameron McEwan

Lecturer in Architecture

architecture; urbanism; political theory; autonomia; aldo rossi; paolo virno;

Katherine McHale

Eighteenth century Italian and British

Sarah Mcham

Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University

Italian art and architecture, 1300-1600

Louisa McKenzie

PhD student, The Warburg Institute

Art history and material culture of Florence 1300-1500; devotional artefacts; patronage and commissioning practices; palaeography

Brian McLaren

Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington

modern Italian architecture, colonialism, racial politics

Steven J McMichael

Professor of Theology
University of Saint Thomas (Saint Paul, MN)

Medieval Franciscan Studies (theology, literature, art)

Jonathan Mekinda

Associate Professor
School of Design
University of Illinois at Chicago

Ara Merjian

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Italian Studies, Affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, NYU;
College of Professors, PhD Program in History, Culture and Theory of Society and Institutions Department of History, University of Milan

The historical avant-garde and interwar politics; comparativist art history; Italian modernism; Fascism and Anti-fascism, Pier Paolo Pasolini

Julia Miller

Professor (Emerita)

Religious orders and art

Adelina Modesti

Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication (Art History/Art Curatorship), University of Melbourne

women's cultural production, women's patronage, history of collecting and the art market, material culture and cultural transfer

Anita Moskowitz

Professor Emerita Stony Brook University

Italian Early Modern sculpture. 19th century sculpture. the art market c 1900.

Linda Mueller

PhD Candidate, Harvard University

Jacqueline Marie Musacchio

Professor, Wellesley College

Italian Renaissance and Baroque art; American travelers in 19th-century Italy

Susan Nalezyty

Lecturer Georgetown University

Global early modern art; history of collecting; affinities between literature and visual art, Renaissance philosophy, portraiture, early modern court culture, and gender studies.

Jonathan Nelson

Teaching Professor, Syracuse University in Florence

Blacks in Art, Risk in Art, Women Artists, Nelli, Botticelli, Filippino, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Patronage, 1960s in Italy

Christopher Nygren

Associate Professor

Robin O'bryan

PhD, Independent Scholar

dwarfs in Italian Renaissance imagery

Catherine O'Reilly

PhD Candidate

Angela Isabel Oberer

Dr.

Italian Renaissance Art
Rococo

Ashley Offill

Andrew W. Mellon Curricular and Digital Resources Coordinator, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

Nancy Ogden

NANCY OGEN
WHITE GATE FILMS

EARLY RENAISSANCE - FLORENCE

Steven Ostrow

Professor, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)

Early modern European visual culture; Rome; Italian art; sculpture

Caroline Paganussi

Ph.D. Candidate
University of Maryland, College Park

Linda Pellecchia

Emerita Associate Professor
Dept of Art History
University of Delaware

architectural history of Early Modern Italy
antiquity and the renaissance
Giuliano da Sangallo
architectural drawings

Chloe Pelletier

PhD Candidate, University of Chicago

Alison Perchuk

Associate Professor of Art History
California State University Channel Islands

Art, architecture, and landscape of medieval Italy, ca. 600–1200; Rome; monasticism; ecocriticism; medievalism (especially Italian medievalism in the American West).

Livio Pestilli

Prof. Livio Pestilli
Trinity College

Renaissance and Baroque Art

Doralynn Pines

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Associate Director (retired)

Italian painting, scultpure and architecture, 1250-1500; medieval painting, sculpture and architecture

Steve Pomerantz

Professor of Mathematics / Artist

Cosmatesque Geometry

Diana Bullen Presciutti

Senior Lecturer of Art History, University of Essex

visual culture of social problems; visual hagiography; charitable institutions; reception theory; social history of art; medical humanities

Catherine Puglisi

Professor of Art History, Rutgers University

Baroque Art

Elizabeth Ranieri

The University of North Texas

Aisling Reid

Dr Aisling Reid
Queen's University Belfast

Material culture, art theory

Patricia Reilly

Associate Professor

Italian Renaissance art and art theory

Sheryl Reiss

Scholar-in-Residence Newberry Library

Early modern art patronage and collecting; women and gender; archaism; transalpine artistic interchange; funerary art; global Renaissance

Clarissa Ricci

Adjunct Professor, University of Bologna

History of Exhibitions, Biennials, Venice Biennale, Contemporary art theory, Art Market, Italian Art Market, Art Fairs, Temporality, Sculpture

Maria Luisa Ricci

PhD student in the Art History Programme, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid.

Images of the redemption of slaves in early modern Italy and Spain

Madeline Rislow

Assistant Professor and Director of Art History, Missouri Western State University

Renaissance Genoa

Negar Rokhgar

Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn

Early Modern Italy, Middle Eastern Art, Cross-Cultural Studies

Mark Rosen

President, IAS (through Feb. 2021); Associate Prof., University of Texas at Dallas

cartography; monuments; court culture; the social history of art

Charles Rosenberg

Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Notre Dame

Ferrara, Renaissance Numismatics, Court patronage

CLAUDIA ROUSSEAU

Professor Emerita, Montgomery College, MD

Italian Renaissance (16th c) and Modern Art; Astrology in Art

Rebecca Ruppar

Instructor of Art History, Loyola University Chicago

13th-14th Century Franciscan order, Byzantium, cross-cultural experience, heresy, material and craft

Maria Ruvoldt

Associate Professor of Art History, Fordham University

Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art
Michelangelo

Linda Safran

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Southern Italy, Salento, Byzantine art, diagrams

Gloria Sander

Curator, Norton Simon Museum

Italian Painting and Drawing, Early Modern
Photography

Bridget Sandhoff

Associate Professor of Art History; University of Nebraska Omaha

Ancient Etruria and Rome; Medieval Italy

Bryn Schockmel

Curator, Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Christine Sciacca

Associate Curator of European Art, 300-1400 CE, The Walters Art Museum

Liturgy and devotion, patronage, Trecento painting and manuscript illumination

Elisabetta Scirocco

Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History

Medieval art and architecture

Lindsay Sheedy

PhD Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis

Elizabeth Simmons

Doctoral Candidate and Robert R. Davis Fellow, Department of Art History, University of Delaware

Early modern art history and material culture

Robert Simon

President, Robert Simon Fine Art

Bronzino, Florentine Cinquecento, Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance and Baroque painting broadly

Patricia Simons

Prof. Fellow, Univ. of Melbourne; Prof. Emerita, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Gender and sexuality; representation of race; portraiture

Elizabeth B Smith

Associate Professor Emerita
Department of Art History
The Pensylvania State University

Sharon C. Smith

Ph.D. Curator, Arizona State University

Vincenzo Sorrentino

Ph.D. University of Pisa

Early-modern Art History, Cultural mediations, Artistic relationships between Naples and Florence, Patronage, Social Art History.

Edna Carter Southard

Emerita Curator of Collections and Exhibitions and Professor, Art Museum and Art Department, Miami University

Renaissance art and history of Tuscany, Sienese painting and sculpture, communal palaces, the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena 1289-1539

Joaneath Spicer

The James A Murnaghan Curator of European Renaissance and Baroque Art, Walters Art Museum

Venetian secular painting/ ideal city tradition/ African diaspora in Europe/ chamber of wonders tradition

Judith Steinhoff

Associate Professor, University of Houston

Trecento art (especially painting); intertextuality of images and vernacular literature, plays, sermons, other cultural media, gender

Cynthia Stollhans

Professor of Art History, Saint Louis University

Mistresses at the Papal Court: Lives, Lovers and Art

Helena Szepe

Professor, University of South Florida

Venice, manuscript illumination, early print, monasticism

Bette Talvacchia

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Emerita
The University of Connecticut

Renaissance art and culture
Gender Studies

Meredith Taylor

Editorial Assistant at Oxford University Press
Adjunct Professor of art history at LaGrange College

Italian High Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque art history, old master copies, fakes, and misattributions

Elizabeth Teviotdale

Associate, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA

early medieval Christian liturgical manuscripts and their illumination

Robin Thomas

Associate Professor of Art History and Architecture
Pennsylvania State University

Emily Thompson

Ph.D. Student at Washington University in St. Louis

Nancy Thompson

Professor of Art History, St. Olaf College

Franciscan art; stained glass; medievalism

Gabriele Tonizzo

Baroque Venice

Summer Trentin

Associate Professor, Art History, Theory, and Criticism; Metropolitan State University of Denver

Ancient Roman painting, urbanism, and domestic architecture; Pompeii; Classical reception; Rome and Naples

Anna Tuck-Scala

Adjunct Associate Professor, John Cabot University and faculty member, Temple University Rome

Seventeenth-century painting, archives, Andrea Vaccaro, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Raphael's legacy, ancient sacred topography, art in Rome, Naples and Spain

Anatole Upart

Mr. University of Chicago

Early Modern Art and Architecture

Charlene Vella

Lecturer, Department of Art and Art History, University of Malta

Renaissance Sicilian art; Mediterranean art; Late Medieval art

Saskia Verlaan

Ph.D. Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
Pre-Doctoral Fellow 2020-2021, Menil Drawing Institute

Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s, Arte Povera, Drawing as Writing

Ian Verstegen

Associate Director, Visual Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Renaissance and Baroque painting, Counter-Reformation, Duchy of Urbino, Federico Barocci, Military Architecture, Scientific Instruments

Patricia Waddy

Distinguished Professor emeritus, Syracuse University

17th c Italian architecture

Liv Deborah Walberg

Associate Professor, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Venetian Renaissance and Baroque Visual Culture, Miraculous Images

Catharine Wallace

Ph.D.; Adjunct Professor, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

16th Century Rome, Space, Memory, Landscapes, Monuments, Antiquity

William Wallace

Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor

Italian Renaissance 1200-1700

Alexis Wang

Cordelia Warr

Dr Cordelia Warr, University of Manchester, UK

female patronage, miraculous wounds, representations of clothing

Wendy Watson

Curator Emerita

especially Decorative Arts

Jennifer D. Webb

Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth

Place, patronage, architecture, urban planning

Margo Weitzman

Doctoral candidate, Rutgers University

Italian Renaissance art history

Loren Whittaker, PhD

Lecturer, Kansas City Art Institute
Founder & Manager, Whittaker Fine Art Appraisals

Religious iconography, liturgical objects

Karl Whittington

Associate Professor, History of Art, The Ohio State University

History of Art

Sarah Wilkins

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute

Angevin Patronage, Franciscan Art, Cult of Saints, Mary Magdalen

Suzanne Willever

Anne Williams

Visiting Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Richmond

Carolyn Williams

President, Friends of the Church of San Francesco, Inc.

Luca Signorelli, the Church of San Francesco in Cortona (AR), Italy

Barbara Wisch

Professor Emerita of Art History, SUNY Cortland

confraternities, art patronage, early modern Rome, anti-Semitism in early modern visual culture

Emily Wood

PhD Candidate, Northwestern University

Jeryldene Wood

Associate Professor Emerita

Italian Renaissance 1400-1600

Kelli Wood

Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee

Melissa Yuen

Associate Curator of Exhibitions, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Giuseppa Zanichelli

Full Professor History of Medieval Art

Illuminated manuscripts

Christine Zappella

University of Chicago

Italian Art in the Built Environment, 1400-1600; Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Theory; Bodily Reception; Color Theory and Practice

Ihor-Andrii Zhuk

PhD student, Lviv National Academy of Arts
Curator of Old Master Paintings, Lviv National Art Gallery

Caravaggism, Venetian drawings of the 18th century

Valentina Živković

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Balkan Studies SASA

Frank Zollo

Shelley Zuraw

List of Current Members

Officers & Contacts

Sarah Wilkins

Tenley Bick

Cristelle Baskins

Antje Gamble

Bradley Cavallo

Max Grossman

Rebecca Howard

Nicola Camerlenghi (Development) and Katherine T. Brown (Membership)

Cristelle Baskins

Sarah Cantor

Livia Lupi

Samantha Hughes-Johnson

Melissa Yuen

Elizabeth Ranieri

Tiffany Lynn Hunt