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Gloria Moorman is Provost's Fellow (2025-2027) at the University of Notre Dame, Department of Art, Art History, and Design. She earned her PhD from the University of Warwick’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (2019), with postdoctoral roles at the University of Padua (2020-2023), and Universities of Oxford and Manchester (2023-2024). A 2025 Mellon Foundation Fellow at Newberry Library, Chicago, her work bridges Italian Studies and Book History.
- Education: MA in Book and Digital Media Studies; BA in Italian Language & Culture (cum laude), both from Universiteit Leiden.
Her research examines early modern European town atlases as socio-political artifacts, focusing on Joan Blaeu’s Theatrum Italiae (1663–1682). She analyzes how cartographic texts/images reflected Renaissance interpretations of geography and chorography (after Ptolemy’s rediscovery), emphasizing their role in asserting erudition and power through print. Her 2017 Venice internship at Biblioteca Correr expanded this work via comparative analysis of Venetian isolari (island books) and Blaeu’s Atlas major.
Selected publications explore Italo-Dutch cultural exchange in Blaeu’s cartography and Rome’s visual evolution in 17th-century atlases. Her awards include the Elsevier – Johan de Witt Thesis Prize and NIKI Fellowship. She organized the 2017 Warwick Renaissance Centre conference 'More than meets the page' and presented at the Newberry Library’s Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference.
- Scientific Awards:
- CADRE Scholarship
- Humanities Research Centre Doctoral Fellowship
- NIKI Fellowship
- Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant
- Elsevier – Johan de Witt Thesis Prize
