Independent Research
2005 Grant Recipients

Grants for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture

2007-2008 United States Program

Douglas Biow
University of Texas, Austin

Research on Doni's Manuscript Designs

Esther Brummer
Columbia University

The Iconography of Identity: Le Nozze and the Construction of Nobility in Early Modern Venice

Stephanie Cary
Berkeley University

Postmodern Imperialism: Tourism, Venice, and the Representation of Culture

Kathleen Christian
University of Pittsburgh

An Investigation into the Grimani Collection of Antique Sculpture

David D'Andrea
Oklahoma State University

Vernacular Marian Books in Early Modern Venice

Christina Ferando
Columbia University

Staging Neoclassicism

Meredith Fluke
Columbia University

The Romanesque Churches of Verona in Their Urban Context

Meagan Green
Duke University

Friars in the City: Mendicant Architecture and Pious Practice in Medieval Verona

John Hunt
University of Pennsylvania

The Idea of the Venetian Garden

Tristan Kirvin
New York University

Blackshirts in Ray-Bans: the Economic Miracle and Neofascism in Italy

Suzanne Magnanini
University of Colorado, Boulder

Enlightened Folk: Fairy Tales, Fables, and Proverbs in Eighteenth-Century Venice

Areli Marina
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

San Pietro di Castello's Campo from the Myth to the Margins

Heather Nolin
Rutgers University

Venetian Authority and Religious Reform: Artistic Commissions at San Giorgio in Braida, Verona 1426-1668

Duane Osheim
University of Virginia

Plague Surveillance in Early Modern Venice

Lisa Pon
SMU Meadows School of the Arts

Printing Piety in Renaissance Venice

Courtney Quaintance
University of Chicago

Masculinity and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Dialect Poetry Exchanges

Kandice Rawlings
Rutgers University

Liminal Messages: The Cartellino in Renaissance Painting

Elizabeth Rodini
Johns Hopkins University

The Politics of Marriage in Carpaccio's Saint Ursula Cycle

Louise Stein
University of Michigan

Spaniards at the Opera: Venetian Opera, Diplomacy and the Venetian Experience of Spaniards Abroad

Sam White
Columbia University

The Little Ice Age Crisis in the E. Mediterranean