PhD in Art History

Megan Reddicks Pignataro

Megan Reddicks Pignataro (she/her) specializes painting and sculpture in Quattrocento Florence, particularly on workshop practices, optics, and perspective. Her research also considers art conservation and historical restoration practices. Her dissertation has been supported by the Renaissance Society of America (2021) and Temple Rome (2019).  

Megan has taught at several institutions in Pennsylvania and Delaware including Temple University, Drexel University, and the Delaware College of Art and Design, and guest lectured in academic and community settings including Oakland University and Butler University.  

In the museum sector, Megan has worked in multiple capacities from curatorial, collections management, to public programming at institutions such as the Royal Ontario Museum and the Detroit Institute of Arts. She currently holds a research assistantship in collections management at the Detroit Institute of Arts as a part of a Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  

Megan is a member of the Emerging Scholars Committee of the Italian Art Society. 

MA, Art History, University of Toronto, 2011 
Honors BA, Art History, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, 2010 

Dissertation title: “The Facture of Non-Linear Perspective in Quattrocento Florence” 

Advisor: Marcia Hall, PhD