Curriculum Vitae
- Education
PhD, University of Warwick (UK), 2020, History of Art
MA, University of Florence (IT), 2014, History of Art
BA, University of Bucharest (RO), 201, History
- Experience
Spring Term 2019/2020; Associate Tutor
University of Warwick, Coventry (UK), History of Art Department
Italian Renaissance Sculpture, 2nd-year module
- Fellowships
07/2023-06/2024, Melville J Kahn Fellow, I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence (Italy)
10/2022−06/2023, Frances A Yates Long-Term Fellow, Warburg Institute, London (UK)
09/2021–05/2022, Monticello College Foundation for Women & Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Newberry Library, Chicago (US)
- Publications/Research achievements
Research Project:
My project ‘OLEUM’, Olive Cultivation and Environment in Tuscany in the Early Modern Period, proposes a multifaceted investigation into the environmental, artistic, and intellectual history of the olive in the Medici Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1569–1737). The study provides a historical perspective able to raise awareness of the importance of safeguarding the olive’s heritage and presence in the Mediterranean in the wake of current global climatic, ecological, and economic challenges. I will bring novel insights into a plant intrinsically connected to the construction of the ‘Tuscan’ identity, while highlighting its sensitivity to the climatic fluctuations that already affected this territory during the Early Modern period. In doing so, I will investigate tensions between city and countryside; protectionist measures and desire for economic mobility; classical frameworks and empirical developments in botany, agriculture, and dietetics. My project showcases the need for traditionally distinct areas of enquiry, such as intellectual, environmental, and art history, to discourse. It fosters collaborations with the University of Warwick (IAS, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance/ History Department), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the Tuscan Society for Horticulture in Florence.