Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities (La Capraia) Fellowship , 2025-2026
During the 2025-2026 academic year, I held a Predoctoral Research Residency at the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities (La Capraia) at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy. With generous support from the Amici di Capodimonte, Franklin University Switzerland, and the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas, I was able to live in Naples and work in archives, museums, and libraries across central and southern Italy, the Maltese Islands, and eastern Spain.
This fellowship was connected to the Museo di Capodimonte and allowed me access to their collections and archives, especially the altarpiece of Saint Louis of Toulouse completed by Simone Martini in c. 1317.
More information on this fellowship and my research in Naples is forthcoming in the 2025-2026 Research Report published by La Capraia in late Fall 2026.
(Image on the left: Taken by me at Capodimonte in spring 2026.)
Mapping and Imagining the Maltese Islands: The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database (KOS)
As a Graduate Student Research Collaborator with the Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database project at the Edith O’Donnell Institute, I am developing a new section of the database on the Maltese Islands (Malta, Comino, and Gozo). During the medieval period of the historical Kingdom of Sicily (c. 1154 to c. 1530), the Maltese archipelago was a part of the kingdom and the Crown of Aragon. To include its shared place in Sicilian and southern Italian history, I am working to draw the attention of the database southward beyond the modern borders of the nation-state of Italy. This work is a part of a broader turn in my research to include Malta through a forthcoming book chapter on the archipelago’s entanglements with North Africa and Aragon.
More soon!
(Image on the left: Taken by me in Mdina, Malta in June 2026.)