Elizabeth A. Kassler-Taub

Professor Kassler-Taub is a specialist in early modern art, architecture, and urbanism, with a focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. Her teaching and research interests include: the transcultural exchange of artistic and architectural knowledge in the Mediterranean; Spanish colonialism and urban intervention in southern Italy and the Americas; and the theory and historiography of early modern globalism. Kassler-Taub’s current book project, Elastic Empire: Architecture, Urbanism, and Identity in Early Modern Palermo, explores the architectural and urban development of early modern Palermo during the first centuries of Spanish viceregal rule. She is also at work on a co-edited volume of scholarly essays and curatorial reflections with Inderbir Singh Riar (Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton University) on architectural monumentality from a global and transhistorical perspective, titled Monumentality: Histories and Ideologies.