Main Focus
- Early Modern Global circulation
- Jesuit networks
- Religious and material culture
- Devotional objects
- Artistic exchange
Research Project
Curriculum Vitae
Vanina Scocchera
is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Professor Tristan Weddigen at the
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte. She holds a
PhD in History and Theory of the Arts from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her
doctoral dissertation, Objetos de devoción y culto: prácticas piadosas,
intercambios y distinción entre agentes laicos y religiosos en las diócesis de
Buenos Aires y Córdoba (mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth century), analyzed
devotional objects as sites of exchange and examined processes of social
distinction between lay and religious actors within the dioceses of Buenos
Aires and Córdoba.
Since 2019 she
has been Lecturer of the University of Buenos Aires (Colonial Latin American Art
History). In 2021–2022, she was awarded the Thoma Foundation Research & Travel
Award. Since 2022, she has been an Assistant Researcher at the National
Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), based at Centro MATERIA,
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). She is Member of the Director
Board of Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte (CAIA).
In recent years, she has contributed to major international research projects on material culture and the global circulation of artistic objects in the early modern period, including ProJesArt (directed by Luisa Elena Alcalá) and Metales Piadosos (directed by Gabriela Siracusano).
Membership
- Member of the Director Board of CAIA (Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte)