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Heather Hyde Minor is a Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame, affiliated with the College of Arts and Letters and the Department of Art, Art History, and Design. She previously held positions at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2005-2017) and concurrently teaches in Romance Languages since 2022. Her administrative roles include Academic Director of the Rome Global Gateway (2017-2020) and founder of the Rome Seminar program.
Education: Ph.D., M.A. (Princeton University, 2002 and 1998), A.B. (Mount Holyoke College, 1993 double major in English and Politics). Research focuses on early modern Italian artistic culture, with specialties in architecture, print culture, and the origins of art history as a discipline. She has authored/co-edited four books including Piranesi Unbound (2020) and The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome (2010).
Awards include the Society of Antiquaries Fellowship (2023), Marraro Prize (2010), and multiple NEH grants. Current projects include a Piranesi biography, a co-edited volume on Renaissance Roman maps, and studies on material objects and historical doubt in the 1700s.
Grants/Fellowships: Over $100K in funding from Kress Foundation, NEH, National Humanities Center, and Clark Art Institute. Curated Piranesi on the Page exhibition (Princeton, 2021). Advised 4 undergrad theses at Notre Dame and multiple graduate students at Illinois.
Labs/Initiatives: Co-leads Project Frutaz (Vatican Library collaboration) and the Rome Seminar interdisciplinary program. Serves on University committees including the Nanovic Institute and Center for Italian Studies.
