Erin Piñon

Dr. Erin Piñon is a Research Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence – Max Planck Institute for Art History. Her work focuses on early modern Armenian book arts, cultural networks, and diasporic identities across Europe and Asia. She holds a PhD from Princeton University (2024), with a dissertation examining Ottoman-Armenian manuscript art and print culture. Her research integrates art history with interdisciplinary studies of migration, transcultural exchange, and visual vernaculars.

• Education: PhD in Art History, Princeton University (2024)

Her research interests include intermediality, the role of translation in artistic production, and the aesthetics of diaspora. She has published in journals such as Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, West 86th Street, and Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies. Current projects explore Armenian print culture and iconographic diaspora in the 18th–19th centuries, analyzing how displaced communities blended medieval traditions with modern aesthetics.

At the Institute, she contributes to collaborative research on transcultural art histories, leveraging the Photothek and library resources. Her work intersects with global debates on heritage, migration, and cultural hybridity.