Main Focus
- Early Modern visual and literary representations of social, religious, and racialized ‘Others’
- Mediterranean mobilities of persons, objects, and ideas
- Race-making in Early Modern Italy
- Naples and the global Spanish Empire
Research project
Curriculum Vitae
Sally
Tucker is a doctoral candidate in Italian Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley. Her Ph.D. dissertation explores the transmedial
representation of enslaved 'Others' in Early Modern Naples, addressing the
construction of Neapolitan identity vis-à-vis nonfreedom.
She
previously completed her M.A. in Art History with Syracuse University and her
B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies with the University of North Carolina,
Asheville. She was a 2025-2026 Predoctoral Research Resident at the Center for
the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities "La Capraia" in
Naples and the recipient of a 2025 Gladys-Krieble Delmas Foundation Venetian
Research Grant. Her doctoral research has also received support from an
Erasmus+ Fellowship at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, the
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, and the Designated
Emphasis for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (REMS) at UC Berkeley. In
addition to her research on Early Modern Mediterranean slavery, she has also
worked on Early Modern disaster writings and the circulation of knowledge in
the global Spanish Empire and on Renaissance art theory and literary academies.