Independent Research
2005 Grant Recipients

Grants for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture

2009-2010 United States Program

Andrew Berns
University of Pennsylvania

The Natural Science of the Biblical World in Late Renaissance Italy

Daniel Clasby
Indiana University

The Local Politics of Italianità: Veneto Political Culture and Jewish Identity in Liberal and Fascist Italy, 1870-1938

Giada Damen
Princeton University

The trade in antiquities between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean (c. 1400-1600)

Bruce Durazzi
Washington University in St. Louis

Composing Utopia: Luigi Nono and the Politics of Modern Music

Matthew Gaetano
University of Pennsylvania

Thomas Triumphant: Scholasticism in Renaissance Intellectual Culture

Samuel Gruber
Syracuse University

The Ghetto in Context: A Culture of Enclosure and Control

Thomas Madden
St. Louis University

Venice and the Crusades: Religion, Warfare, and Identity in the Republic of Saint Mark

Suzanne Mariko Miller
Oberlin College

Venice in the East Adriatic: Experiences and Experiments in Colonial Rule, c. 1150-1358

Terrance Mintner
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Venice and the East in the Sixteenth Century

John Monfasani
Columbia University

Three Bessarion Projects - Part II: Manuscripts in Berlin and El Escorial

Alexander More
Harvard University

Health and State in the Medieval Mediterranean, 1150-1350

Susan Nalezyty
Temple University

Il collezionism poetico: Cardinal Pietro Bembo and the Formation of Collecting Practices in Venice and Rome in the Early Sixteenth-Century

Monique O'Connell
Wake Forest University

Renaissance Republicanism and Venetian Empire

Susannah Rutherglen
Princeton University

The Cabinet Picture Tradition: Art and Ornament in the Age of Giorgione

Suzanne Scanlan
Brown University

Doorways to the Demonic and Divine: Visions of Santa Francesca Romana and the Frescoes of Tor de'Specchi

Jennifer Scappetone
University of Chicago

This Amphibious City: Venice and the Digressive Invention of the Modern

Christine Scippa
Northwestern University

Theatre at the Convent in Counter-Reformation Venice

Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Stanford University

Giovanni Battista and Antonio Vivaldi in Brescia

Michael Thomas Tworek
Harvard University

Study Abroad: The Intellectual Foundations of the Polish Nation