<div dir="ltr">Please see call for applications below.<div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jason Weems</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jweems@ucr.edu">jweems@ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: Call for Applications for 2026-2027 Predoctoral Research Residencies at La Capraia<br>To: Iselda Salgado <<a href="mailto:iselda.salgado@ucr.edu">iselda.salgado@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="line-break:after-white-space">please forward to the grad students.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div><br></div><div><br id="m_-8202047276540308429lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
<div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div>Jason Weems<br>History of Art Department, Director of Graduate Studies<br>University of California, Riverside<br><a href="http://arthistory.ucr.edu" target="_blank">http://arthistory.ucr.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div>
</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">"Sarah K. Kozlowski" <<a href="mailto:sarahkkozlowski@AYA.YALE.EDU" target="_blank">sarahkkozlowski@AYA.YALE.EDU</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Call for Applications for 2026-2027 Predoctoral Research Residencies at La Capraia</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">October 20, 2025 at 11:33:26 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">caah@Princeton.EDU<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Consortium of Art and Architectural Historians <caah@Princeton.EDU><br></span></div><br><div><div>--0000000000005212cc06419b52a2<br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"<br>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable<br><br>Dear colleagues,<br><br>Greetings from the O'Donnell Institute. Below please find a Call for<br>Applications for 2026-2027 Predoctoral Research Residencies at the Center<br>for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities "La Capraia." You will<br>also find the pdf here: <a href="https://utdallas.box.com/v/LaCapraiaCall2026-2027" target="_blank">https://utdallas.box.com/v/LaCapraiaCall2026-2027</a>.<br>I would be grateful if you would circulate the call to potential<br>candidates!<br><br>With thanks and and happy fall,<br><br>Sarah<br><br>Sarah K. Kozlowski, PhD<br>Associate Director and Head of Scholarly Research & Programs, The Edith<br>O'Donnell Institute of Art History<br>Director, Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities =E2=<br>=80=9CLa<br>Capraia=E2=80=9D<br><a href="mailto:sarahkkozlowski@gmail.com" target="_blank">sarahkkozlowski@gmail.com</a> / <a href="https://sarahkkozlowski.net" target="_blank">https://sarahkkozlowski.net</a><br><br><br><br>*Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities =E2=80=9CLa Ca=<br>praia,=E2=80=9D<br>Naples*<br><br>*Call for Applications: 2026-2027 Research Residencies*<br><br><br><br>Founded in 2018, the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port<br>Cities =E2=80=9CLa Capraia=E2=80=9D (Centro per la Storia dell=E2=80=99Arte=<br> e dell=E2=80=99Architettura<br>delle Citt=C3=A0 Portuali =E2=80=9CLa Capraia=E2=80=9D) is a collaboration =<br>between the Museo e<br>Real Bosco di Capodimonte, the Edith O=E2=80=99Donnell Institute of Art His=<br>tory at<br>the University of Texas at Dallas, Franklin University Switzerland, and the<br>Amici di Capodimonte.<br><br><br><br>Housed in =E2=80=9CLa Capraia,=E2=80=9D a rustic eighteenth-century agricul=<br>tural building<br>at the heart of the Bosco di Capodimonte, the Center engages the Museo di<br>Capodimonte and the city of Naples as a laboratory for new research in the<br>cultural histories of port cities and the mobilities of artworks, people,<br>technologies, and ideas. Global in scope, research at La Capraia is<br>grounded in direct study of objects, sites, collections, and archives in<br>Naples and southern Italy. Through site-based seminars and conferences,<br>collaborative projects with partner institutions, and research residencies<br>for graduate students, La Capraia fosters research on Naples and southern<br>Italy as a site of cultural encounter, exchange, and transformation, and<br>cultivates a network of scholars working at the intersection of the global<br>and the local.<br><br><br><br>The Advisory Committee of the Center for the Art and Architectural History<br>of Port Cities =E2=80=9CLa Capraia=E2=80=9D invites applications for 2026-2=<br>027 Research<br>Residencies for PhD students carrying out research for their dissertations.<br>Projects, which may be interdisciplinary, may focus on art and<br>architectural history, archaeology, histories of collecting, technical art<br>history, cultural heritage, the digital humanities, music history, or<br>related fields, from antiquity to the present. Projects should address the<br>cultural histories of Naples and southern Italy as a center of exchange,<br>encounter, and transformation, and, importantly, make meaningful use of<br>local research materials including artworks, sites, archives, and<br>libraries. We welcome applications for projects that engage with histories<br>of the collections and grounds of Capodimonte, and/or artworks and<br>monuments held there. Projects in the earlier phases of research are<br>preferred.<br><br><br><br>This coming academic year, Research Residencies will run from 8 September<br>2026 through 7 June 2027. Research Residents are granted free lodging at La<br>Capraia (private bedroom/study/bath and communal study/living/kitchen<br>spaces) and a modest stipend of 7,000 EUR, administered by the Amici di<br>Capodimonte, to help defray the cost of living. During their time in<br>Naples, Research Residents are expected to work on their projects full time<br>and in residence, and to participate in scholarly programs that La Capraia<br>organizes over the course of the year. La Capraia advises Research<br>Residents on access to collections, sites, archives, and libraries as<br>needed for their projects; at Capodimonte, we arrange access to collections<br>and research resources insofar as possible during the museum=E2=80=99s curr=<br>ent<br>renovation. In the spring semester, Research Residents are expected to<br>present their research in an informal seminar, gallery talk, or site visit.<br>In the summer following the residency period, Research Residents are<br>invited to contribute a short essay to the Center=E2=80=99s annual research=<br> report.<br><br><br><br><br>Residents are responsible for obtaining appropriate visas (the Center<br>provides official letters of support) and for providing proof of health<br>insurance. Residents must arrange their own travel to and from Naples.<br><br><br><br>We welcome applications from doctoral students of any nationality,<br>preferably in the earlier stages of research for the dissertation.<br>Applicants are invited to submit a letter of interest, a CV, and a research<br>proposal of c. 1,500 words. The research proposal should frame the central<br>questions, methods, and scholarly contributions of project, situate the<br>project within existing scholarship, and provide a plan of work for the<br>academic year, indicating the resources that will be used while on site in<br>and around Naples. Materials should be sent in a single PDF file (with last<br>name as the title of the file) to Center Coordinator, Dott.ssa Francesca<br>Santamaria (<a href="mailto:francesca.santamaria@utdallas.edu" target="_blank">francesca.santamaria@utdallas.edu</a>). In addition, applicants<br>must invite three recommenders to send confidential letters of support<br>directly to the same email address. All materials, including letters of<br>recommendation, are due by January 31, 2026. Finalists will be invited to<br>interviews held via Zoom with representatives from the O=E2=80=99Donnell In=<br>stitute<br>and Capodimonte.<br><br><br><br>Learn more about the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port<br>Cities =E2=80=9CLa Capraia=E2=80=9D at <a href="https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port=" target="_blank">https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port=</a><br>-cities/.<br>Download an overview of La Capraia at<br><a href="https://tinyurl.com/La-Capraia-overview" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/La-Capraia-overview</a>. Read past editions of our annual<br>research report at <a href="https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/publications=" target="_blank">https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/publications=</a><br>/.<br>Learn about past Research Residents at<br><a href="https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/residencies/" target="_blank">https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/residencies/</a>. View past and<br>upcoming scholarly programs at<br><a href="https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/programs/" target="_blank">https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/programs/</a>.<br><br><br><br>Download a PDF of this Call here:<br><a href="https://utdallas.box.com/v/LaCapraiaCall2026-2027" target="_blank">https://utdallas.box.com/v/LaCapraiaCall2026-2027</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>*Centro per la Storia dell=E2=80=99Arte e dell=E2=80=99Architettura delle C=<br>itt=C3=A0 Portuali<br>=E2=80=9CLa Capraia=E2=80=9D*<br><br>a collaboration between<br><br>Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte<br>The Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History<br><br>Franklin University Switzerland<br><br>and Amici di Capodimonte<br><br>Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte / La Capraia<br>Via Miano 2 Napoli 80131<br><br>+39 3494706237<br><br><a href="mailto:lacapraia@gmail.com" target="_blank">lacapraia@gmail.com</a> | <a href="https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/" target="_blank">https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/</a><br><br>*****<br>This message was sent via the CAAH listserv. 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