Bodhi Vandewalker
Bodhi Vandewalker is an aspiring designer and maker. A Minnesota native, his Midwestern roots laid the foundation for the joyful twists of the creative journey. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and User Experience from the University of Minnesota, approaching creativity as a way of living and a true means to connection. Bodhi’s work is guided by authenticity and the belief that passion matters most.
Giovanna Rudis
Giovanna Rudis is a recent graduate of Boston University, where she completed her BA in History with honors. Her research centers on early modern Europe, with a particular interest in the intersection of politics, art, and identity in the Medici court. She previously conducted independent research at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze for her…
Leila Treherne
Leila Treherne is a second-year undergraduate studying Art History at the University of St Andrews. Born and raised in Italy between the Tuscan countryside and Rome, she developed a deep appreciation for cultural heritage from an early age. Her academic interests center on the intersection of art, literature, and history, with a strong emphasis on…
Malte John
Malte John is a Bachelors’ student of history and art history at the University of Bonn. His main research interests lie with the social history of 15th century Florence, especially focussing on political networks and neighbourhood ties. For his BA thesis, he is researching the Ufficiali di notte and their role in the political struggle…
Phoebe Ciocca
Phoebe Ciocca is a second year Classics undergraduate at the University of Cambridge (Pembroke College). She is working with MAP Fellow Davide Baldi Bellini on the reception and translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics across various cultures and languages. Her own research at MAP centres on Renaissance Italian translations and commentaries on Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Phoebe Price
Phoebe Price recently graduated with a BA in Art History from Williams College. Her Honors Thesis examined the intersection of art and alchemy at the court of Francesco I de’ Medici, focusing on the relationship between pietra dura inlays and imitation stones. After attending the Paleography Seminar this winter, she is returning to MAP to…
Siri Moses
Siri Moses is a senior at Trinity School in New York City. She has experience in Classics and Art History, with over three years of studying Greek and six years of learning Latin. Throughout her high school career, Siri has led the Classics Club, the NYC Classics Conference, and Trinity’s premier Classics Magazine, and founded…
Thomas McGrath
Thomas McGrath recently graduated with a BA in art history from Washington University in St. Louis. At MAP, he worked with Marcello Simonetta to explore city planning and diplomacy in 16th century Urbino.
Abby McDermott
Abby McDermott is a Bachelor’s student of Medieval History and Italian Studies at Smith College. After studying in Florence for the 23-24 academic year, she decided to continue her studies here for the summer. Her research interests lie in women’s health and medicine in Early Modern Italy.
Cosimo Hayward Evans
Cosimo Hayward Evans is a young man. He has an interest in the history of philosophy and science in early modern europe, with a specific focus Ferdinando II de’ Medici and the Accademia del Cimento. He is currently studying philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London.
Davis Priest
Davis Priest holds a B.A. from the University of Vermont in art history and Italian studies. She is spending the summer interning with the Medici Archive Project learning about manuscript, archival, and library studies. This summer Davis is working on a project involving the relationship of legal culture in the material world of the Florentine…
Iakoiehwahtha Patton
Iakoiehwahtha Patton is an art historian of the Northern Renaissance. At the University of Oxford, she recently completed her MSt of History of Art and Visual Culture, focusing on the gendering of death in the funerary arts of Renaissance France. Her dissertation, aptly titled “Gendering Death in the French Renaissance,” focused on the funerary patronage…
Jillian Hauer
Jillian Hauer is a recent graduate of Arcadia University, where she earned a B.A. in Art History. Her thesis explored Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici’s strategic portrayal of Florence as a global hub through the collection, commission, and cultivation of objects related to the Americas. Jillian aims to deepen her research in this area through…
Kata Ispanovits
Kata Ispanovits is an undergraduate student of medieval history at the University of Pisa. She has been with the Medici Archive Project since 2023, continuing her research on the sociopolitical and economic consequences of the Pazzi conspiracy, with special attention to the effects on the women of the family, and the construction of image in…
Olivia Dick
Olivia Dick is a senior in high school at the International School of Florence. Originally from New York, she moved to Florence with her family in 2016 and has lived there since. She has worked as an intern with MAP since April 2023. Her interests lie in history, ecology, and evolutionary biology. At MAP, she’s…
Sofia Barbieri
Sofia Barbieri is an undergraduate honours student at the University of Toronto, where she studies History and Italian. Her interests revolve around the intersections of daily life, violence, and interpersonal relations in seventeenth-century Florence. Her current project seeks to examine social networks depicted in female-authored ricordanze, paying attention to women’s roles in their construction and…
Alessia Gagliardi
Alessia Gagliardi is a bachelor’s student of History of Art and Visual Culture and Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway University of London. Previous to her MAP Internship, she developed her knowledge of Fake News in the Avvisi written in Florentine Renaissance. In her upcoming dissertation, she will focus on how the Florentine society…
Chantal Maria Reissel
Chantal Maria Reissel earned her B.A. in European Studies (including Art History, Italian Studies, and Digital Humanities) in 2019 from the University of Passau and obtained her Master’s Degree in Art History at the University of Bonn in January 2023, with a thesis on the portraiture of the Florentine Renaissance artist Giuliano Bugiardini. During the…
Chiara Campagnaro
Chiara Campagnaro graduated from the University of Toronto in 2021 with a degree in History, Italian Studies, and Renaissance Studies. She is currently completing a Master’s in Art History, Curatorship, and Renaissance Culture at the Warburg Institute in London. Her research interests focus on early modern women, the history of the book trade, and Italian…
Elli Stogiannou
Elli holds a Bachelor of Art in Art History from Pomona College (2022) and she just recently finished her first year at Utrecht University’s master program in Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies. Her research interests lie in cross-cultural encounters and relations as they unfolded in the long seventeenth century in the Mediterranean basin. Elli, currently…
Holly Johnstone
Holly Johnstone is a recent graduate from the University of Oxford where she completed her Master’s Degree in Early Modern History. Holly’s master’s thesis focused on the intersections of race-making, dress, and physical bodies in Cesare Vecellio’s 1598 costume book, De Gli Habiti Antichi et Moderni. She previously completed her undergraduate degree at the University…
Kaylee Kelley
Kaylee Kelley is a first-year PhD student at Boston University focusing on cinquecento portraiture and material culture. Her Master’s thesis entitled ‘“Illustrious Through Her Own Virtues”: An Alternative Vision of Laura in Cinquecento Florentine Portraiture’ investigated the relationship between devotional objects and portraiture vis-á-vis contemporary literature. Prior to her PhD, Kaylee completed a Master’s at…
My Lundborg
My Lundborg is a Library and Information Science Master’s student with a focus on digital libraries from Borås University in Sweden. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Studies from Gothenburg University, where she wrote her Bachelor’s thesis on the working conditions of municipally funded artists. Special interests include ideological history and the accessibility and…
Anna Malgeri
Anna Malgeri completed her BA and MA studies summa cum laude in history at the University of Florence in 2017 with a thesis on 18th-19th century Tuscany Jewry. She is a high school teacher and a poet. Her book of poems Abbracciami Israele was published in 2020. For more information about her see https://unifi.academia.edu/AnnaMalgeri .
Aubrey Peterson
Aubrey Peterson, 2nd year History Major at UC Santa Barbara, studying Renaissance and Baroque art and history.
Bethanie Belisle
Bethanie Belisle is a third-year student at the University of Minnesota-Morris. She is triple majoring in Art History, Political Science, and Medieval Studies. In addition, she is a McNair Scholar preparing to attend graduate school in Art History discipline. Her focus is on the political influence of the dismantling of art through the centuries, concentrating…
Daniela Graca
Daniela Graca holds a Bachelor of Music in musicology from the University of Ottawa (2022) and will begin her Master of Arts in musicology at McGill University this autumn. Her research centres around women in Italian Renaissance music with particular focus on music and the body and music in female homosocial settings. She was the…
Erik Zielinski
My name is Erik Zielinski and I study medieval history at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. While my studies have broadly spanned over Europe, Africa, and Asia, I have always been fascinated by the Medici family and I am excited to have a chance to study them more closely.
Georgina Rowley
Georgina Rowley completed her undergraduate degree at the University of East Anglia, specialising in sixteenth-century Italian poetry. She wrote her third-year dissertation on the use of the Heroides as a mode of writing that offered courtesan-poets Veronica Franco and Tullia d’ Aragona a way of expressing their private aspirations publicly. Her interests include courtesans, women…
Iran Danae Garza Torres
Danae Garza is a Bachelor student in Classics and Modern Languages at Royal Holloway University of London. This academic year she will be joining The Medici Archive Project where she will be serving as junior research fellow and intern’s coordinator for the Eugene Grant Jewish History Program
Sára Kovács
My name is Sára Kovács and I am a 3rd year undergraduate student at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest majoring in Italian Philology and minoring in Hungarian as a Foreign Language. Besides that, I am doing a double degree program which allows me to spend my final year at the University of Florence. My…
Sophie Jones
Sophie Jones is a senior at Smith College, where she majors in art history with a concentration in archival studies and a minor in Italian. She is interning with MAP after spending the semester studying in Florence. Her focus lies within religious/devotional art and its ties to gender in the Renaissance period, and she is…
Swetha Ganeshkumar
Swetha Ganeshkumar is a junior at the University of Minnesota majoring in Finance and minoring in Business Analytics at the Carlson School of Management. She is from Minnesota and is studying abroad in Florence for one semester. In her free time, she is involved with her business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi and an organization called…
Wu Xiao
Wu Xiao is a Ph.D. student at École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. Her dissertation focuses on the hospital architecture in Renaissance Italy. She completed her BA in ancient Chinese architecture at Peking University and published an article on the reconstruction of Grotto 55’s antechamber at Mogao, Dunhuang. Xiao has worked in several cultural…
Zaida Lagunas
Zaida is a senior at the University of California, Santa Barbara pursuing a bachelor’s degree in History of Art & Architecture and a minor in Poverty, Inequality, and Social Justice. Previously, She interned with the Brooklyn Museum, and through The Association of Research Institutes in Art History, interned for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the…
Alison Holdsworth
Alison Holdsworth is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Art History at American University in Washington, DC. She joined the Medici Archive Project in January of 2021, where she worked alongside a team of fellow graduate students for Dr. Gabriele Mancuso within the Eugene Grant Jewish History Program. Their tasks included collecting and cataloguing…
Christine Staton
Christine Staton is a recent graduate of Syracuse University’s master’s program in Italian Renaissance art. Her program included a year-long residency in Florence where she first encountered the Medici Archive Project. Christine’s thesis, “The Nectanebo Lions on the Fontana dell’Acqua Felice: Egyptian Revival in the Rome of Sixtus V,” studied two Egyptian antiquities in Rome…
Katherine Rabogliatti
Katherine Rabogliatti is an Art History Masters student at Syracuse University. Her interests include women writers and artists in early modern Italy, with a particular focus on the life and work of Sofonisba Anguissola. She is currently researching Sofonisba’s time in Spain and later life, concentrating on the artist’s social circle at the Spanish court…
Noah Dasinger
Noah Dasinger is currently a second-year master’s student at the University of Georgia, where he studies early Renaissance sculpture and the Medici. He joined the Medici Archive Project in June of 2021, where he worked alongside the director Dr. Alessio Assonitis. His duties included transcription, indexing, and cataloging documents uploaded onto MIA. His thesis entitled…
Olivia Marcum
Olivia Marcum is a senior at Centre College, double majoring in Art History and Studio Art with a concentration in oil painting. She has been awarded the J. Graham Brown Fellowship from Centre (her undergraduate institution). Her research interests include the activities and social contexts of early modern women in Europe, and the lives and…