Weiss-Brown Awardees

2024-25

Mayu Fujikawa
Senior Assistant Professor, Art History, Meiji University
Pennsylvania State University Press
Envisioning Diplomacy: Images of Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe

Asa Mittman
Professor, Art History, California State University, Chico
Pennsylvania State University Press
Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England

Camille Serchuk
Professor, Art History, Southern Connecticut State University
Pennsylvania State University Press
Lies of the Land: Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France

2023-24

Mónica Domínguez Torres
Professor, Art History, University of Delaware
Penn State University Press
Pearls for the Crown: Art, Nature, and Race in the Age of Spanish Expansion

Stephanie A. Leitch
Professor, Art History, Florida State University
Cambridge University Press
Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation: Training the Literate Eye

Noria Litaker
Assistant Professor, History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Virginia Press
Bedazzled Saints: Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria

Louise K. Stein
Professor, Musicology, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Latin American Studies, University of Michigan
Oxford University Press
The Marqués, the Divas, and the Castrati: Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán and Opera in the Early Modern Spanish Orbit

2022-23

Melissa Lo
Independent Scholar
Skepticism’s Pictures: Figuring Descartes’s Natural Philosophy

Anca-Delia Moldovan
Independent Scholar
Illustrating the Year: The Iconography of the Calendar and its Cultural Impact in Early Modern Northern Italy

Giovanna Montenegro
Associate Professor of Literature, Binghamton University
German Conquistadors in Venezuela: The Welsers’ Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory

Bettina Varwig
Professor, Music History, University of Cambridge
University of Chicago Press
Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology

2021-22

Michael Anderson
Associate Professor, Musicology, University of Rochester
Music and Performance in the Book of Hours

Jean Brink
Professor Emeritus, Literature, Arizona State University
Rivall Friendship

Craig Koslofsky
Professor, History, University of Illinois
Stigma: Marking Skin in the Early Modern World

Matthew Shoaf
Independent Scholar
Monumental Sounds: Art and Listening before Dante

2020-21

Elizabeth L’Estrange
Lecturer in Art History at the University of Birmingham
Anne de Graville and Early Modern Book Culture in France

2019-2020

Francesco Lucioli
Assistant Professor of Literature at University College Dublin
“Transformations” of the “Orlando Furioso”: On the “Popular” Reception of Ariosto’s Poem

Nina Rowe
Associate Professor of Art History at Fordham University
The Illuminated World Chronicles: Tales from the Late Medieval City

2018-2019

Emanuele Lugli
Assistant Professor of History of Art at the University of York
The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness

Maddalena Signorini
Associate Professor of Literature at Universitá di Roma Tor Vergata
‘Tracce’ petrarchesche. Storia e significato di una prassi scrittoria

Amanda Wunder
Associate Professor of History at City University of New York, Lehman College and Graduate Center
Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV

2017-18

Arielle Saiber
Associate Professor of Literature at Bowdoin College
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award
Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy

Sharon Davenport
Retired Scholar
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award
The Bar Books: Manuscripts Illuminated for Renaud de Bar, Bishop of Metz (1303-1316)

2016-17

Antonio Iurilli
Professor of Literature at the University of Palermo
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award
Quinto Orazio Flacco Annali delle Edizioni a Stampa Secoli XV-XVIII

2015-16

Frances Gage
Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art, SUNY Buffalo State
Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Recipient
Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art

2014-15

Julia Miller
Professor of Art History, California State University, Long Beach
Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Recipient
Co-Author of From Giotto to Botticelli: The Artistic Patronage of the Humiliati in Florence

Laurie Taylor-Mitchell
Independent Scholar of Art History
Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Recipient
Co-Author of From Giotto to Botticelli: The Artistic Patronage of the Humiliati in Florence

2013-14

Jesse Locker
Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art, Portland State University
Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Awards
“The Hands of Aurora”: Artemisia Gentileschi and the Language of Painting

Mara Wade
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Awards
The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Context, Celebration, and Consequence of an Anglo-German Alliance

2012-13

Irit Kleiman
Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, Boston University
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award
Philippe de Commynes: Memory, Betrayal, Text

Barbara Wisch and Nerida Newbigin
Professor Emerita of Art History, State University of New York, Cortland; and Professor Emerita of Italian Studies, University of Sydney, Australia
Acting on Faith: The Confraternity of the Gonfalone in Renaissance Rome

2008-09

Suzanne Cusick
Associate Professor of Music, New York University
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award
Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power

Shelley Perlove
Professor of Art History, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award
Rembrandt’s Faith: Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age

Larry Silver
Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award
Rembrandt’s Faith: Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age

2007-08

Anne Derbes
Professor of Art History, Hood College
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention
The Usurer’s Heart: Giotto, Enrico Scrovegni, and the Arena Chapel in Padua

Mark Sandona
Professor of English, Hood College
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention
The Usurer’s Heart: Giotto, Enrico Scrovegni, and the Arena Chapel in Padu

Michael Wyatt
Lecturer in English, Stanford University
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention
Writing Relations: American Scholars in Italian Archives, Essays in Honor of Franca Nardelli and Armando Petrucci

2006-07

Margaret Bent
Senior Research Fellow in Music, All Souls College, Oxford University
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award
Lucca, Archivio di Stato; Lucca, Archivio Arcivescovile; Pisa, Archivio Arcivescovile: The Lucca Choirbook

Elizabeth L’Estrange
Fellow in Art History, The Leverhulme Trust
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award
Gender, Dynasty, and Spectatorship: Female Viewers and Maternal Imagery in the Late Middle Ages

Nina Treadwell
Assistant Professor of Music, University of California at Santa Cruz
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award
Music, Wonder, and the “Mystery of State”: The Medicean Interludes for “La pellegrina,” (1589)