Temple University

Marian Berthoud (she/her/hers) 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. She is currently a pre-doctoral fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz in Department Wolf, working with other researchers on the topic “Art History, Catastrophes, (Heritage), Ecology.” In June 2024, Marian conducted field research on the Junior Scholar Edilia and François-Auguste De Montêquin Fellowship from the Society of Architectural Historians. Prior to her summer fellowship, Marian lived in 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 for nine months. Since receiving her first fellowship from the Art History Department at Temple to study in Rome in 2022, Marian has traveled across southern Italy and Sicily, only briefly returning to the United States to study Portuguese at Middlebury on the Kress Fellowship. Marian graduated with her M.Phil. from Trinity College Dublin in Irish Art History in 2017, has worked at the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University in the Albert Elsen Rodin Archive, and taught courses in introductory art history and Asian art and architecture at both Temple University and Foothill Community College in her native California. Her overarching interest in architectural history centers on urban history and colonialism in the Mediterranean and the Pacific, tracing Spanish imperial power.

M.A., Trinity College Dublin, 2017
B.A., University of San Francisco, 2015

Dissertation Title: "Ruined and Rebuilt: Constructing the Ideal Baroque City after Natural Disasters"

Advisor: Tracy E. Cooper, PhD