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Francesca Fiorani
McIntire Department of Art
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400130
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Education
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Ph.D in Art History, June 1994
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, M.A. in Art History, November 1990
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, B.A. in Art History, June 1986 (summa cum laude)
Academic Appointments
Chair, Art Department, University of Virginia, 2013-2016
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Virginia, 2005-present
Visiting Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The European Forum, Spring 2008
Visiting Professor, The Interdisciplinary Center at Hertzlya, Israel, Law School, Fall 2007
Director, UVA in Italy: Renaissance Art on Site (January Term), 2004-2010
Director, UVA in Italy: The Art and Architecture of Rome (Summer Term), 2005-2009
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, Fall 1997-2005
Publications
Books and edited volumes
Leonardo’s Optics: Theory and Pictorial Practice, co-edited volume with Alessandro Nova.
Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2013 (in press).
Bartolo di Fredi’s Adoration of the Magi: A Masterpiece Reconstructed, co-edited exhibition
catalogue with Bruce Boucher, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Art Museum,
2012.
Selected Reviews: NBC29, 1 March 2012; Daily Progress, 25 March 2012; New York
Observer, 31 July 2012; New York Times, 9 August 2012.
Carte dipinte. Arte, cartografia e politica nel Rinascimento, Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini,
2010 (translation and updated edition of The Marvel of Maps).
The Marvel of Maps. Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy, New Haven & London:
Yale U.P., 2005.
Reviews: V. della Dora, H-HistGeog, Oct. 2005; R. Highbarger, The Portolan. The
Journal of the Washington Map Society 64 (Winter 2005-2006), 47-48; M. Maroto
Camino, The Globe 57 (Dec. 2005), 49; G. J. Martin, Choice 43, no. 6 (Feb. 2006), 10811082; G. Neher, The Art Book 13, no. 2 (May 2006), 64-65; S. Stowell, Art History 57,
no. 1 (2005), 516-518; R. Unger, Renaissance Studies 20, no. 4 (Sept. 2006), 581-582; D.
Brownstein, Renaissance Quarterly 59, no. 2 (Summer 2006), 515-517; S. James,
Sixteenth Century Journal 37, no. 3 (Fall 2006), 948-949; Z. Shalev, Smanim, 2007, 178181 (in Hebrew).
Awards: Special Mention, 2006 Premio Salimbeni per la Storia e la Critica d’Arte
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Translations: into Italian, Carte dipinte. Arte, cartografia e politica nel Rinascimento,
Franco Cosimo Panini: Modena, 2010
Pistoletto, co-edited exhibition catalogue with Anna Imponente, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’arte
Moderna e Contemporanea, Milan: Electa, 1990.
Articles in peer-reviews journals, edited volumes and exhibition catalogues
“The Story of the palla: Verrocchio, Leonardo and Practical Optics,” in Approaches to Art and
Science: Essays in Honor of Martin Kemp, ed. Juliana Barone & Matthew Landrus,
Oxford & New York: Oxford U.P., 2014.
“The Genealogy of Leonardo’s Shadows in a Drapery Study,” in Festschrift for Joseph Connors,
ed. Machtelt Israel & Louis A. Waldman, The Villa I Tatti Series (2013),
Cambridge/MA: Harvard U.P., 2013 (in press).
“Leonardo’s Optics in the 1470s,” in Leonardo’s Optics: Theory and Pictorial Practice, ed.
Francesca Fiorani & Alessandro Nova, Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2013 (in press).
“Renaissance Mapping, Ancient Geographical Knowledge and Modern Voyages,” in The
Cambridge Companion Guide to the Italian Renaissance, ed. Michael W. Wyatt,
Cambridge & London: Cambridge U.P., 2013 (in press).
“Places of Renaissance Mapping,” in Herrschaft Verorten Politische Kartographie des
Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Ingrid Baumgärtner & Martina Stercken, Zurich:
Chronos, 2012, pp. 125-142.
“Bartolo di Fredi’s View of Siena as the New Jerusalem,” in Bartolo di Fredi’s Adoration of the
Magi: A Masterpiece Reconstructed, ed. Bruce Boucher & Francesca Fiorani,
exhibition catalogue, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Art Museum, 2012, pp. 1522.
“Da Bologna al mondo: astronomia, cartografia, giurisprudenza e la chiesa universale di
Gregorio XIII,” in La Sala Bologna, ed. Francesco Ceccarelli, Venice: Marsilio Editore,
2011, pp. 9-23.
“The Shadows of Leonardo’s Annunciation and Their Lost Legacy,” in Imitation, Representation
and Printing in the Italian Renaissance, ed. Roy Eriksen & Magne Malmanger, Pisa &
Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2009, pp. 119-156.
“The Colors of Leonardo’s Shadows,” in Leonardo. The International Society of the Arts,
Sciences and Technologies 41, vol. 3 (2008), pp. 271-278.
“The Theory of Shadow Projection and Aerial Perspective. Leonardo, Desargues and Bosse,”
in Lichtgefüge des 17. Jahrhunderts. Rembrant und Vermeer, Leibnitz und Spinoza, ed.
Carolin Bohlmann, Thomas Fink & Philipp Weiss, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2008, pp.
191-206 (anthologized article from 1994).
“Painted Map Cycles in the Renaissance,” in History of Cartography, Volume Three: The
Renaissance, ed. David Woodward, Chicago: Chicago U.P., 2007, pp. 803-835.
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“La Sala Bologna di Gregorio XIII,” in Iconografia delle cittá europee, ed. Cesare De Seta,
Naples: Electa, 2004, pp. 179-187.
“Danti Edits Vignola. The Formation of a Modern Classic on Perspective,” in The Treatise on
Perspective. Published and Unpublished, ed. Lyle Massey, Center for Advanced Study in
the Visual Arts, Studies in the History of Art 59 (2003), pp. 127-159.
“Maps, Politics and the Grand Duke of Florence. The Sala della Guardaroba Nuova of Cosimo I
de’ Medici”, Renaissance Representations of the Prince. Basilike Eikon, ed. Roy
Eriksen & Magne Malmanger, Rome: Edizioni Kappa, 2001, 73-102.
“Post-tridentine Geographia sacra: The Galleria delle Carte Geografiche in the Vatican Palace,”
in Imago Mundi 48 (1996), pp. 124-148.
“The Theory of Shadow Projection and Aerial Perspective. Leonardo, Desargues and Bosse,” in
Desargues en son temps, ed. Jean Dhombres & Jacques Sakarovitch, Paris, 1994, pp.
267-282.
Anthologized: Leonardo da Vinci. Selected Scholarship in English, 5 vols., ed. Claire
Farago, New York: Garlands, 1999, vol. 4, pp. 215-230; Lichtgefüge des 17.
Jahrhunderts. Rembrant und Vermeer, Leibnitz und Spinoza, ed. Carolin Bohlmann,
Thomas Fink & Philipp Weiss, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2008, pp. 191-206.
“Abraham Bosse e le prime critiche al Trattato della Pittura di Leonardo,” in Achademia
Leonardi Vinci V (1992), pp. 78-95.
“Il problema della scelta del soggetto: le mostre d’arte a Weimar, 1799-1805,” in Ricerche di
Storia dell'Arte 33 (1987), pp. 19-30.
Digital Publications
Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting, author, April 2012
Dedicated to the legacy of Leonardo da Vinci’s art theory, this publication focuses on
Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting, the only text by the artist that circulated widely for over
four centuries. Gathering over forty manuscript copies and many printed editions of this
text, this digital publication provides innovative research tools for visual and textual
analysis.
www.treatiseonpainting.org
“The Enduring Power of Forgery and Imagination: The Zeno Map,” author, May 2012
in Cartographic Conversation. Essays Contributed by JCB Fellows in Honor of the 50th
Anniversary of the Library’s Fellowship Program, John Carter Brown Library
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/cartographic/pages/fiorani.
html
Leonardo da Vinci Between Art and Science, editor, expected publication July 2013
Gathering the research projects developed during the 2012 NEH Summer Institute
“Leonardo da Vinci: Between Art and Science” (Florence, Italy, June-July 2012), this
publication provides unique points of entry into many aspects of Leonardo da Vinci’s
research.
http://faculty.virginia.edu/Fiorani/NEH-Institute/
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Book Reviews and other publications
Review of Ptolemy’s Geography in the Renaissance, ed. Zur Shalev & Charles Barnett,
Warburg Institute Colloquia, London 2011. Journal of Early Modern History, Winter
2012, pp. 582-584.
Review of The Possessions of a Cardinal, ed. Mary Hollingsworth & Carol M. Richardson.
The Times Higher Education, UK, 22 July 2010, pp. 52-53.
Review of Il trionfo di Vertunno. Illusioni ottiche e cultura letteraria nell’etá della
Controriforma, Marco Arnaudo. Renaissance Quarterly, 64, no. 1, Spring 2011, pp. 203204.
“Art and Science in the Renaissance”, in What Should I Read Next? The University of Virginia
Reader’s Guide, ed. Jessica Feldman & Robert Stilling, Charlottesville: University of
Virginia Press, 2008, pp. 199-203.
Review of Leonardo Da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design, Martin Kemp. Renaissance
Quarterly 61, no. 3 (2008), pp. 921-923.
Review of Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland: Jacques de Gheyn II (15651629), Claudia Swan. Renaissance Quarterly 60, no. 3 (2007), pp. 216-218.
“1580. Italian Cartographic Murals of the Renaissance,” in The Map Book, ed. Peter Barber,
London: The British Library, 2005, pp. 120-123.
Review of Leonardo da Vinci. Natur im Übergand, ed. Frank Fehrenbach. Renaissance Quarterly
57, no. 3 (2004), pp. 991-993.
Review of Les grandeurs de la Terre. Aspects du savoir geographique a la Renaissance, Jean
Marc Besse. Imago Mundi 57, no. 1 (2004), pp. 70-71.
Review of Pontormo Bronzino Allori: A Genealogy of Florentine Art, Elizabeth Pilliod. Sixteenth
Century Journal 34, no. 1 (2003), pp. 300-301.
Review of Immagini per conoscere dal Rinascimento alla Rivoluzione scientifica, eds. Fabrizio
Merio & Claudio Pogliano. Renaissance Quarterly 56, no. 4 (2003), pp. 1275-1276.
Review of Alla scoperta del mondo. L’arte della cartografia da Tolomeo a Mercatore. Imago
Mundi 55, no. 1 (2003), p. 136.
Review of The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine. The Kunstkammer and the
Evolution of Nature, Art and Technology, Horst Bredekamp. Renaissance Quarterly 51,
no. 1 (1998), pp. 268-270.
“The Multimedia Format of Renaissance Maps”, in Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance
Studies, London, May 1995, pp. 7-12.
Luigi Spazzapan, 1889-1959, exhibition catalogue, eds. Anna Imponente & Francesca Fiorani,
Rome: Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 1990.
Consagra, exhibition catalogue, eds. Anna Imponente & Rosella Siligato, Rome: Galleria
Nazionale d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, 1989, 119-136, 218-231.
Fellowships and Awards
External
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 2013-2014 Fellowship, alternate
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellow 2009-2010
American Council of Learned Societies, Frederick Burckhardt Residential Fellowship, Villa I
Tatti, Florence, 2009-2010
Getty Center, Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities, 2000-2001
American Council for the Learned Societies, Research Fellowship, Fall 1997
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National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship for University Professors,
Spring1997
Folger Institute, The Folger Shakespeare Library, Research Fellowship, Spring 1995
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Research Fellowship, Fall 1994.
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Summer 1994
Warburg Institute, University of London, Francis Yates Fellowship, Spring 1993.
Ministero dell’Universitá e della Ricerca Scientifica, Italy, Ph.D. Fellowship, 1990-1993.
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy, Research Fellowship, 1989.
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, Italy, Research Fellowship, 1988.
Internal (University of Virginia)
Sesquicentennial Fellowship, Spring 2013
Office of Engagement, Outstanding Faculty Speaker Recognition, 2012
Page Barbour Committee, 2012
Vice Provost for the Arts, 2012
Vice Provost for International Programs, Office of Research, 2012
Presidential Inauguration of T. Sullivan, Poster Competition, Winner for the Humanities, 2011
Summer Research Grant, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Research Support, 2010, 2007
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Research Support, 2004, 1998
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, Fellow, 2004-2006
Sesquicentennial Fellowship, 2001-2002
Sponsored Grant Activities
Director, Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting, a digital archive, April 2012
www.treatiseonpainting.org
Duties: define research goals, direct international research group, supervise graduate
students and researchers, negotiate agreements with international institutions, fundraise.
Support: Samuel H. Kress Foundation; Institute of Advanced Technology in the
Humanities; Lindner Center for Art History at the University of Virginia.
Press: Leonardo da Vinci Society Newsletter 26, May 2006, 3; UVA Today, 30 March
2012.
Director, NEH Summer Institute, Leonardo da Vinci Between Art and Science, Summer 2012
Duties: design and direct program, direct international group of scholars, supervise
faculty, negotiate agreements with host institution
Support: National Endowment for the Humanities
Host institution: Max Plank Gesellschaft-Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Press: UVA Today, 26 September 2011; UVA Today, 31 January 2012
Museum experience
Guest curator, Bartolo di Fredi’s Adoration of the Magi: A Masterpiece Reconstructed,
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Art Museum, 2012 (with Bruce Boucher).
Associate Curator for Special Exhibitions and Programs, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea, Rome, 1988-1992.
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Conferences Organized
Bartolo di Fredi and His Times, University of Virginia, April 2012 (with Bruce Boucher).
Leonardo da Vinci’s Legacy: International Collaboration and Global Access, University of
Virginia, April 2012.
Leonardo da Vinci and Optics, Florence, Italy, Max Plank Gesellschaft-Kunsthistorisches Institut
in Florenz May 2011 (with Alessandro Nova).
Leonardo da Vinci in Context: Knowledge and Transgression in Early Modernity, Tel Aviv,
Israel, May 2008 (with Lea Dovev).
Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting, University of Virginia, October 2005.
Sessions organized
The Materiality of Colors I and II, Renaissance Society of America, San Diego, April 2013 (with
Marcia Hall).
Writings, Readings and Dreams of the Young Leonardo Da Vinci, Renaissance Society of
America, Los Angeles, March 2009.
Writing on Art and Architecture: Authorship, Circulation and Publication, Renaissance Society
of America, San Francisco, March 2007 (with Claire Farago).
Urban Landscape and Devotional Strategies, Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge/UK,
March 2005 (with Barbara Wisch).
Questo Gran Drago Gregory XIII (1572-85): Art, Science, and Social Order and Questo Gran
Drago Gregory XIII (1572-85): Rome and the Vatican, Sixteenth Century Society
Conference, Toronto, November 2004 (with Barbara Wisch).
Conference papers
The Practical and Theoretical Optics of the Young Leonardo, Renaissance Society of America,
San Diego, 2013.
Leonardo and His Treatise on Painting, Renaissance Society of America, Washington, 2012.
Leonardo and Optics in the 1470s, Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, 2009.
The Places of Renaissance Mapping. Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, 2008.
Between Phenomenology and Culture. The Places of Renaissance Mapping. College Art
Association, New York, 2007.
Leonardo’s Shadows and Their Omission in Renaissance Theory. Renaissance Society of
America, San Francisco, 2006.
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Papal Processions and Topography in Late Renaissance Rome. Renaissance Society of America,
Cambridge/UK, 2005.
Leonardo’s Legacy to Art Theory. Association of Historian of Art, Bristol/UK, 2005.
Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting. Renaissance Society of America, New York, 2004.
The Legacy of Leonardo’s Art Theory. Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Pittsburgh, 2003.
The Spirituality of Maps. The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican Palace. Renaissance Society of
America, Scottsville, 2002.
The Order of Maps. Map Cycles in Print and in Paint. Renaissance Society of America, Chicago,
2001.
Collecting by Maps. The Guardaroba Nuova of Grand Duke Cosimo I. Renaissance Society of
America, Florence, Italy, 2000.
According to Maps. Art, Collecting and Scientific Culture. College Art Association, New York,
2000.
Maps and Catholic Reform in Sixteenth Century Italy. XVIII International Conference on the
History of Cartography, Athens, 1999.
The Sala Bologna in the Vatican Palace. Renaissance Society of America, College Park, 1998.
Maps, Politics and the Grand Duke of Florence. The Guardaroba Nuova of Cosimo I de’ Medici.
XVII International Conference on the History of Cartography, Lisbon, 1997.
The Guardaroba Nuova of Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici. Renaissance Society of
America, Bloomington, IN, 1996.
Cartography and History in a Renaissance Atlas of Italy. RSA, New York, 1995.
Description, Rhetoric, and the Mapping of Italy: The Vatican Gallery of Maps. College Art
Association, San Antonio, TX, 1995.
Invited Lectures
Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting: A Digital Archive, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Library, Richmond, April 2013
Leonardo’s Atmosphere, Max Plank Gesellschalft - Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, March
2013.
Panel “After the Deluge: Reimagining Leonardo’s Legacy”, Dean’s Forum, University of
Virginia, Architecture School, January 2013
The Practical and Theoretical Optics of the Young Leonardo, Max Planck Gesellschalft for the
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History of Science, Berlin, October 2012; Dutch Institute, Florence, Italy, July 2012.
Leonardo’s Optics, University of London, Warburg Institute, February 2012.
The Renaissance World Image: Between Art, Science, and Politics, University of Oslo, Faculty of
Humanities, September 2011.
Il Trattato della pittura di Leonardo, Biblioteca Leonardiana, Vinci, September 2011.
Leonardo’s Shadows, Max Plank Gesellschalft - Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florez, May 2011;
The Society of Fellows, University of Virginia, March 2011; University of Oxford, UK,
October 2010; The Harvard Center of Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence,
December 2009; University of Notre Dame, Rome Program, November 2009; Folger
Institute Faculty Seminar, Washington D. C. (director Lorrain Daston), May 2008.
Cartografia e politica in Palazzo Vecchio: La Guardarona di Cosimo I de’ Medici University of
Florence, Department of Architectural History, Florence, April 2010.
Geografia sacra: Roma negli affreschi vaticani di Gregorio XIII, Istituto nazionale di studi
romani, Rome, December 2009.
Cartography and Politics in Late Renaissance Italy, University of Zurich, January 2009.
The Colors of Leonardo’s Shadows, Tel Aviv University, Israel, May 2008.
Leonardo’s Optics, Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, April 2007
Cartography, Art and Religion in Late Renaissance Rome, Haifa University, School of History,
November 2006
Representing Space, Place and Site in Renaissance Maps, Ben Gurion University, Department of
Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology, March 2006
The Order of Renaissance Maps, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute for Advanced
Studies, February 2006
Leonardo’s Legacy to Art Theory, The Norwegian Institute in Rome, May 2005
Cartografia e religione nel papato Boncompagni, American Academy in Rome, June 2004
The Order of Ptolemy’s Maps, University of London, Warburg Institute, June 2003
La Sala Bologna di Gregorio XIII, University of Naples, Departimento di Storia dell’Architettura,
May 2003
Alberti and Leonardo in 1651, The Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, May 2002
Leonardo’s Trattato della Pittura as a printed book, University of London, Warburg Institute,
September 2001
Space, Time and Order in Renaissance Maps, University of Virginia, Media Studies, June 2001.
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Maps, Politics, and Grand Duke of Florence. The Guardaroba Nuova of Cosimo I de' Medici,
The Norwegian Institute in Rome, May 1999
Collecting by Maps. Art Scientific Culture and the Grand Duke of Florence, Columbia
University, Department of Art History, April 1999
According to Maps. Art, Scientific Culture and Politics in Medicean Florence, University of
Virginia, Department of Art History, March 1998
Maps, Politics and the Grand Duke of Florence. The Guardaroba Nuova of Cosimo I de’
Medici, Library of Congress, Washington, March 1998
Danti Edits Vignola. How a Renaissance Workshop Manual Became a Treatise, Center for
Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, November
1997
Cartography and Religion. The Use of Maps in Sixteenth-century Religious Debates, Brown
University, John Carter Brown Library, December 1994
Egnazio Danti as Map-Maker, University of London, Warburg Institute, January 1993
The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, College de France, Seminaire sur l’Histoire de la
Perspective, Paris, November 1992
The Theory of Shadow Projection and Aerial Perspective. Leonardo, Desargues and Bosse,
University of Paris, Institute Henri Poincare, November 1991
Public Presentations
Speaker at the 2012 Women Faculty Dinner, University of Virginia
Leonardo Live, Paramount Theater, Charlottesville, VA, 16 February 2012.
Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Board of
Trustees, Yale University, November 2011.
Painted Maps. Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Europe, The British Library,
London, June 2010, in connection with the exhibition Magnificent Maps.
Leonardo’s Shadows, The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, in connection
with an exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings, Turin, September 2008.
The Places of Renaissance Mapping, The Library of Congress, April 2008.
Titian’s Venus Blindfolding Cupid, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, July 2006 in connection with the
exhibition Titian from the Galleria Borghese.
I codici di Leonardo tra filologia e fantasia, Italian Institute of Culture, Tel Aviv, June 2006.
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Service
National and International
Member, International Committee, College Art Association, 2013-2016
Nomination of fellows (by invitation), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2009
Nomination for Distinguished Achievements Awards (by invitation), Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, 2010
Panelist (by invitation), American Council of Learned Societies, Annual Meeting, Spring 2011
UVA Representative, Executive Committee, Folger Institute, 2007Member, Programming Committee (by invitation), Folger Institute, 2008-2009-2012
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006, 2012, 2013
Reviewer of manuscripts for publication
Princeton University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Pearson, Oxford University
Press, Ashgate, Center for American Places, Thames & Hudson, Art Bulletin,
Renaissance Quarterly, Imago Mundi, Aurora, Journal of Historical Geography, Journal
of Early Modern History
Reviewer of tenure files for various universities in the US, Europe, and Asia
Reviewer of proposal on art history projects for various foundations in the US and Europe
Evaluator of Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012
Reviewer, Renate Voris Foundation Fellowship, 2012-2015
At the University of Virginia
University-wide
President Office, Public Occasions Subcommittee, 2012-2013
Provost Office, Global Studies Committee, 2012-2013
Provost Office, Reappointment Review Committee, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013
Provost Office, Advisory Committee, Leadership in Academic Matters, 2011-2013
Provost Office, Task Force on Revenues and Incentives, Spring 2012
Provost Office, VP for International Programs, Faculty Advisory Committee on Education
Abroad, 2011Development Office, Meetings with UVA alumni, 2009-present
Faculty Senate, Executive Committee, 2012Faculty Senate, College of Arts and Sciences, member at large, 2011-2016
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, Selection Committee, 2007-2008
International Studies, Executive Committee, 2007-2008, 2008-2009
International Studies, Search Committee for Director of Study Abroad, 2004-2005
Teaching Resource Center, Selection Committee, All-University Graduate Teaching Award
Center for Undergraduate Excellence, Selection Committee, 2009, 2011
Center for Undergraduate Excellence, Selection Committee, Arts Awards, 2009, 2011
College of Arts and Sciences
Committee, MA in European Studies, 2012-2013
Instructional Technology Committee, 2012Study Abroad Committee, Spring 2012
Institute for the Humanities and Global Cultures, Advisory Board, 2011Steering Committee, 2008-209, 2012-2015
Advising Fellow, 1999-2000, 2003-2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2013
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McIntire Department of Art
Chair, 2013-2016
Peer Review Committee, 2012-2013
Meetings with donors, 2009-present
Chair, Committee for new PhD Program, 2004-2005
Director of Undergraduate Programs 2001-2005
Director of Distinguished Major Programs, 1999-2005, 2007-2009
Graduate Committee, 2011-2012
Equal Opportunity Coordinator, 2001-2005
Leslie Baltz Award to Study in Italy, Reviewer, 1999-2005
Search Committee for Department Chair, 2003-2004
Search Committee for 18th and 19th Century Art, 2003-2004
Search Committee for Medieval Art, 2007-2008
McIntire Lecture Series, 2007-2009
Tenure Review Committee, 2012-2013
Third-year Review Committee, 2008-2009
Advising, International Exchange Students, current
Professional development
Leadership in Academic Matters, Fall 2010
Life-long membership
Society of Fellows, University of Virginia