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Alessio Assonitis

Alessio Assonitis

Director
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2003
assonitis[at]medici[dot]org

Alessio Assonitis (Rome, 1970) received his doctoral degree in Renaissance art history from Columbia University in 2003. He has taught at Columbia University, Barnard College, Herron School of Art, and the Christian Theological Seminary. In 2003-4, he served as Allen Whitehill Clowes Curatorial Fellow at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.  He arrived at the Medici Archive Project in the fall 2004, with a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He became MAP Research Director in 2009 and Director in 2011.

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Elena Brizio

Elena Brizio

Vice Director
Ph.D. Università degli Studi di Firenze, 1993
ebrizio[at]medici[dot]org

Elena Brizio completed her Ph.D in Medieval History at the University of Florence in 1993 with a thesis on the political and prosopographical analysis of the Sienese government in years 1355-1399; she also completed a Masters in Gender Studies in 2003, working on the role of the dowry in the fourteenth century.

Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 14:50
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Lorenzo Allori

Lorenzo Allori

Technology Director
lallori(at)medici(dot).org

Lorenzo Allori, native of Florence, is currently attending the University of Siena majoring in Business Communication. Primarily a Unix and networking specialist, he has worked for Syracuse University and for several other firms, building ad hoc IT solutions and packages integrating opensource products.

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Piergabriele Mancuso

Piergabriele Mancuso

Director of the Eugene Grant Research Program on Jewish History and Culture in Early Modern Europe
Ph.D. University College London, 2009

Piergabriele Mancuso (Venice, 1975) received his doctoral degree in Jewish Studies from University College London, 2009.

Submitted by rachel on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 14:56
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Sheila Barker

Sheila Barker

Director of The Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists in the Age of the Medici
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2002
barker[at]medici[dot]org

Sheila Barker graduated from Amherst College in 1993 and completed an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph. D. at Columbia University with a specialization in Italian Baroque painting and a doctoral dissertation on plague art in 17th-century Rome. In addition to teaching art history for many years (currently for the University of California EAP in Florence) and managing an Old Masters gallery (Robert Simon Fine Arts), she has also worked in a museum as the Allen Whitehill Clowes Curatorial Fellow at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2003-4.

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Maurizio Arfaioli

Maurizio Arfaioli

Senior Research Fellow
Ph.D. University of Warwick, 2002
arfaioli[at]medici[dot]org

Maurizio Arfaioli was born in Piedmont in 1967 and grew up in Tuscany. He received a B.A. (Honors) in Renaissance History at the University of Pisa in 1995 and completed a Ph.D.

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Brendan Dooley

Brendan Dooley

Senior Research Fellow
b.dooley[at]ucc[dot]ie

Brendan Dooley is the Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork.  He has previously taught at Harvard University and Jacobs University in Bremen.  Between 1999 and 2001 he was Chief of Research at MAP. Publications include Science, Politics and Society in Eighteenth-Century Italy (Garland Publishing, 1991); Italy in the Baroque: Selected Readings (Garland Publishing, 1995);

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Alana O'Brien

Alana O'Brien

Senior Research Fellow
PhD La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia, 2002
aobrien [at] medici [dot] org

Alana O’Brien completed her PhD at La Trobe University in 2002, with a thesis focusing on the cult of San Filippo Benizi, and Andrea del Sarto’s fresco cycle of Benizi’s life in the forecourt of the SS. Annunziata.From 2002-2005 she was a Research Fellow with the Medici Archive Project. From 2006 – 2011 she worked as a Curator at the La Trobe University Museum of Art and gave lectures in the University’s Art History department.

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Marta Caroscio

Marta Caroscio

The Eugene Grant Research Program on Jewish History and Culture in Early Modern Europe Fellow

Marta Caroscio studied at the Universities of Florence, London and Siena. She completed her PhD in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Siena in 2007, receiving as well a Diploma in Paelography, Diplomatics and Archive Studies from the Archivio di Stato in Florence (2003-2005).

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Roberta Piccinelli

Roberta Piccinelli

Compagnia di San Paolo Fellow di Torino 2009-2012
Ph.D. Università degli Studi di Teramo, 2008
rpiccinelli[at]medici[dot]org

Roberta Piccinelli has a degree in History of Art and a Ph.D in Art Collecting at the University of Teramo with a dissertation entitled: Communication and Documentary Research.

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Laura Windisch

Laura Windisch

Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust Fellow (Spring-Summer 2013)
laura.windisch[at]culture[dot]hu-berlin.de

Laura Windisch studied art history and cultural studies at the Universities of Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Rome and Berlin.

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Samuel Morrison Gallacher

Samuel Morrison Gallacher

Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust Fellow (Spring-Summer 2013)
samuel.gallacher [at] imtlucca [dot] it

Samuel Morrison Gallacher read history at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, graduating in 2009 with First Class Honours and the Sir Herbert Butterfield Prize for History.

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Ashley Lynn Buchanan

Ashley Lynn Buchanan

Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust Fellow (Spring-Summer 2013)
ashleylynnbuchanan [at] gmail [dot] com

Ashley Lynn Buchanan is a doctoral history student at the University of South Florida studying early modern Italy, specifically the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

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Lorenzo Pasquinelli

Lorenzo Pasquinelli

Senior Developer
lpasquinelli(at)medici(dot).org

A native of Florence, Lorenzo Pasquinelli is a JEE Solutions Architect with a strong background in the financial sector. During his eleven years in the IT industry he has specialized himself in development, systems analysis and project management.

Submitted by alessio on Mon, 07/15/2013 - 05:16
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Ronny Rinaldi

Ronny Rinaldi

Senior Java Developer
rinaldi [dot] ronny [at] gmail [dot] com

A native of Arezzo, Ronny Rinaldi graduated in Computer Engineering from University of Florence in 2009.

Submitted by lorenzo on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 09:36
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Joana Amill Luzondo

Joana Amill Luzondo

Web Graphic Designer
jamill(at)medici(dot)org

Joana Amill Luzondo was born in Barcelona in 1985 and graduated from Universitat Ramon Llull in 2007 in Industrial Design and has worked for Gemma Bernal Diseño as an Industrial and Graphic designer.

In 2008 she moved to Florence and completed a Master’s degree in Web Design at the Libera Accademia di Belle Arti.

Submitted by lorenzo on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 09:34
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Matteo Doni

Matteo Doni

Junior Developer
mdoni(at)medici(dot).org

Matteo Doni, native of Pontedera near Pisa, is currently attending the University of Pisa pursuing a degree in Information Technology.

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Tamara Graziotti

Tamara Graziotti

Paleographer
Ph.D. Università degli studi di Firenze, 2012

Tamara Graziotti received both her undergraduate degree (2007) and her doctorate (Medieval History, 2012) from the University of Florence.

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Caterina Pardi

Caterina Pardi

Digitization Technician
caterinapardi[at]gmail[dot]com

Native of Florence, graduated in Cinema and Media Studies at University of Siena she also studied photography and image postproduction at SSTI Academy in Florence.

Submitted by alessio on Fri, 05/31/2013 - 09:54
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Giovanni Piccolino Boniforti

Giovanni Piccolino Boniforti

Digitization Technician
g.piccolinoboniforti [at] gmail [dot] com

A native of Florence, Giovanni Piccolino Boniforti is currently pursuing a degree in architecture at the University of Florence.

Submitted by lorenzo on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 10:26
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Claire Eskander

Claire Eskander

Jane Fortune Research Program - Junior Researcher

Claire Eskander graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BA (Mod.) Hons in History of Art and Architecture with Ancient History and Archaeology in 2011. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on the religious paintings of Giorgio Vasari and his influence on proceeding Florentine artists.

Submitted by lorenzo on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 05:20
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Myrto’ Psicharis

Myrto’ Psicharis

Jane Fortune Research Program - Junior Researcher

Myrtò Psicharis was born in Florence. She is currently carrying out a degree in Art History, Conservation and Care of Cultural Heritage at the University of Florence.