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Professor Kassler-Taub is a historian of early modern art, architecture, and urbanism with a focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy in its global context. Her teaching and research explore the transcultural exchange of artistic and architectural knowledge in the Mediterranean, Spanish colonialism in southern Italy and the Americas, and the theory and historiography of early modern globalism. Her publications span subjects from the racialized history of Renaissance style to the urban "waterscape." Kassler-Taub's current book project, Elastic City: Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Palermo, explores the development of the Sicilian capital during the first centuries of Spanish viceregal rule. Her forthcoming volume, Monumentality: Histories and Ideologies (Getty Research Institute Publications, Issues & Debates Series), co-edited with Inderbir Singh Riar (Carleton University), explores architectural monumentality from a global and transhistorical perspective. In 2023, Kassler-Taub was a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Her work was recently supported by a Sawyer Seminar at Penn State funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021), a Jane L. Keddy Memorial Fellowship from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University (2021), a RSA-Samuel H. Kress Research Fellowship in Renaissance Art History from the Renaissance Society of America (2021), and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Getty Research Institute (2018-19).
Art History
"Palermo's Renaissance Misfit," in The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art, eds. Stephen J. Campbell and Stephanie Porras (New York: Routledge, 2024), 149-65.
"The Urban Waterscape of Early Modern Palermo," in Convivium: Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean 10, n. 1 (June 2023), The Architecture of Medieval Port Cities: Italy and the Mediterranean, 26-45.
"Unlearning Palermo's Architectural History," in "Roundtable: Constructing Race and Architecture (1400-1800)," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 80, n. 3 (September 2021): 270-73.
"Inconvenient Globalism: Method Making at the Margins of Art History," Modern Philology 119, n. 1 (August 2021), Multiplicities: Recasting the Early Modern Global, pp. 33-60.