Lacy Gillette

Lacy Gillette is an Adjunct Professor at Winthrop University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, specializing in Design and Art History. Her research focuses on Early Modern (1400-1700) art and printmaking, the History of the Book, and Egyptian art and archaeology. She holds a Ph.D. from Florida State University (2022), an M.A. from the University of Memphis (2009), and a B.A. from Jacksonville University (2007).

Her doctoral dissertation, People Watching in Paper Worlds: Jost Amman (1539-1591) and Picturing the ‘Type’ in the Sixteenth-Century Illustrated Book, was completed in 2022. She received a Fulbright Research Fellowship (2019–2020) for work at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. In 2024, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Newberry Library, the Huntington Library, and the Gotha Research Center (University of Erfurt).

Her research trends emphasize interdisciplinary studies at the intersection of Renaissance print culture and material history, with a focus on German Renaissance artist Jost Amman and Egyptian archaeological contexts.