[Ahs-grads] Fwd: Call for Applications for 2026-2027 Predoctoral Research Residencies at La Capraia

Mon Oct 20 13:14:06 PDT 2025

Please see call for applications below.

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From: Jason Weems <jweems at ucr.edu>
Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Subject: Fwd: Call for Applications for 2026-2027 Predoctoral Research
Residencies at La Capraia
To: Iselda Salgado <iselda.salgado at ucr.edu>

please forward to the grad students.

thanks

Jason Weems
History of Art Department, Director of Graduate Studies
University of California, Riverside
http://arthistory.ucr.edu

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*From: *"Sarah K. Kozlowski" <sarahkkozlowski at AYA.YALE.EDU>
*Subject: **Call for Applications for 2026-2027 Predoctoral Research
Residencies at La Capraia*
*Date: *October 20, 2025 at 11:33:26 AM PDT
*To: *caah at Princeton.EDU
*Reply-To: *Consortium of Art and Architectural Historians
<caah at Princeton.EDU>

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Dear colleagues,

Greetings from the O'Donnell Institute. Below please find a Call for
Applications for 2026-2027 Predoctoral Research Residencies at the Center
for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities "La Capraia." You will
also find the pdf here: https://utdallas.box.com/v/LaCapraiaCall2026-2027.
I would be grateful if you would circulate the call to potential
candidates!

With thanks and and happy fall,

Sarah

Sarah K. Kozlowski, PhD
Associate Director and Head of Scholarly Research & Programs, The Edith
O'Donnell Institute of Art History
Director, Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities =E2=
=80=9CLa
Capraia=E2=80=9D
sarahkkozlowski at gmail.com / https://sarahkkozlowski.net

*Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities =E2=80=9CLa Ca=
praia,=E2=80=9D
Naples*

*Call for Applications: 2026-2027 Research Residencies*

Founded in 2018, the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port
Cities =E2=80=9CLa Capraia=E2=80=9D (Centro per la Storia dell=E2=80=99Arte=
e dell=E2=80=99Architettura
delle Citt=C3=A0 Portuali =E2=80=9CLa Capraia=E2=80=9D) is a collaboration =
between the Museo e
Real Bosco di Capodimonte, the Edith O=E2=80=99Donnell Institute of Art His=
tory at
the University of Texas at Dallas, Franklin University Switzerland, and the
Amici di Capodimonte.

Housed in =E2=80=9CLa Capraia,=E2=80=9D a rustic eighteenth-century agricul=
tural building
at the heart of the Bosco di Capodimonte, the Center engages the Museo di
Capodimonte and the city of Naples as a laboratory for new research in the
cultural histories of port cities and the mobilities of artworks, people,
technologies, and ideas. Global in scope, research at La Capraia is
grounded in direct study of objects, sites, collections, and archives in
Naples and southern Italy. Through site-based seminars and conferences,
collaborative projects with partner institutions, and research residencies
for graduate students, La Capraia fosters research on Naples and southern
Italy as a site of cultural encounter, exchange, and transformation, and
cultivates a network of scholars working at the intersection of the global
and the local.

The Advisory Committee of the Center for the Art and Architectural History
of Port Cities =E2=80=9CLa Capraia=E2=80=9D invites applications for 2026-2=
027 Research
Residencies for PhD students carrying out research for their dissertations.
Projects, which may be interdisciplinary, may focus on art and
architectural history, archaeology, histories of collecting, technical art
history, cultural heritage, the digital humanities, music history, or
related fields, from antiquity to the present. Projects should address the
cultural histories of Naples and southern Italy as a center of exchange,
encounter, and transformation, and, importantly, make meaningful use of
local research materials including artworks, sites, archives, and
libraries. We welcome applications for projects that engage with histories
of the collections and grounds of Capodimonte, and/or artworks and
monuments held there. Projects in the earlier phases of research are
preferred.

This coming academic year, Research Residencies will run from 8 September
2026 through 7 June 2027. Research Residents are granted free lodging at La
Capraia (private bedroom/study/bath and communal study/living/kitchen
spaces) and a modest stipend of 7,000 EUR, administered by the Amici di
Capodimonte, to help defray the cost of living. During their time in
Naples, Research Residents are expected to work on their projects full time
and in residence, and to participate in scholarly programs that La Capraia
organizes over the course of the year. La Capraia advises Research
Residents on access to collections, sites, archives, and libraries as
needed for their projects; at Capodimonte, we arrange access to collections
and research resources insofar as possible during the museum=E2=80=99s curr=
ent
renovation. In the spring semester, Research Residents are expected to
present their research in an informal seminar, gallery talk, or site visit.
In the summer following the residency period, Research Residents are
invited to contribute a short essay to the Center=E2=80=99s annual research=
report.

Residents are responsible for obtaining appropriate visas (the Center
provides official letters of support) and for providing proof of health
insurance. Residents must arrange their own travel to and from Naples.

We welcome applications from doctoral students of any nationality,
preferably in the earlier stages of research for the dissertation.
Applicants are invited to submit a letter of interest, a CV, and a research
proposal of c. 1,500 words. The research proposal should frame the central
questions, methods, and scholarly contributions of project, situate the
project within existing scholarship, and provide a plan of work for the
academic year, indicating the resources that will be used while on site in
and around Naples. Materials should be sent in a single PDF file (with last
name as the title of the file) to Center Coordinator, Dott.ssa Francesca
Santamaria (francesca.santamaria at utdallas.edu). In addition, applicants
must invite three recommenders to send confidential letters of support
directly to the same email address. All materials, including letters of
recommendation, are due by January 31, 2026. Finalists will be invited to
interviews held via Zoom with representatives from the O=E2=80=99Donnell In=
stitute
and Capodimonte.

Learn more about the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port
Cities =E2=80=9CLa Capraia=E2=80=9D at https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port=
-cities/.
Download an overview of La Capraia at
https://tinyurl.com/La-Capraia-overview. Read past editions of our annual
research report at https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/publications=
/.
Learn about past Research Residents at
https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/residencies/. View past and
upcoming scholarly programs at
https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/programs/.

Download a PDF of this Call here:
https://utdallas.box.com/v/LaCapraiaCall2026-2027

*Centro per la Storia dell=E2=80=99Arte e dell=E2=80=99Architettura delle C=
itt=C3=A0 Portuali
=E2=80=9CLa Capraia=E2=80=9D*

a collaboration between

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
The Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History

Franklin University Switzerland

and Amici di Capodimonte

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte / La Capraia
Via Miano 2 Napoli 80131

+39 3494706237

lacapraia at gmail.com | https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/

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