Temple University

Marian Berthoud is a Ph.D. candidate currently researching Baroque architecture and urban planning in southern Italy, Portugal, and the Philippines for her dissertation titled “Ruined and Rebuilt: Constructing the Ideal Baroque City after Natural Disasters,” under her advisor, Dr. Tracy Cooper. In September 2023, Marian will be travelling to Naples for a research residency at the Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali, located in the Real Bosco di Capodimonte. Marian will also be participating in the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz 2023 Summer School titled “Two Lands/Two Seas: Calabrian-Sicilian Art and Architecture in an Environmental Perspective.”

She attended the Middlebury Language Immersion Program under the Samuel H. Kress Fellowship for Portuguese in the summer of 2022, gaining another language for her dissertation research. Marian graduated with her M.Phil. from Trinity College Dublin in Irish Art History in 2017, and has worked at the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University in the Albert Elsen Rodin Archive, and has taught courses in introductory art history and Asian art and architecture at Foothill Community College in her native California. 

BA, University of San Francisco
M.Phil., Trinity College Dublin 

Primary Advisor: Tracy E. Cooper, PhD