Sara Galletti
Associate Professor in the department of art, art history & visual studies
Sara Galletti earned an M.Arch from the the Università IUAV di Venezia (1999) and a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from the Sorbonne Université-Paris IV. Galletti's research focuses on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in early modern Europe and the premodern Mediterranean. She has published on the production and reception of architectural knowledge and models, early modern architectural treatises, women’s patronage, the history of stereotomy, and urban history. Galletti is currently working on a book project funded by a 2021–22 NEH grant tentatively titled History of Stone Vaulting in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean: Practices, Theories, and Patterns of Knowledge Transfer.
What are you most looking forward to as a Faculty Fellow?
Engaging with students and hearing about their stories, their ways of seeing things, and their ideas and ambitions about the future.
What advice would you give to current undergraduates?
Be as intellectually curious as you possibly can.
What is something you think students should know during their time at Duke?
Duke is a large crowd-intelligence organism--immerse yourself and enjoy it.