Shannah Rose

PhD Candidate

Areas of interest: colonial Mexican manuscripts; print culture in the Spanish Americas, Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula; history of the book; codicology; translation studies; collecting history.

Shannah Rose is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts and the 2024–2025 Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Marian and Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize Fellow in Renaissance & Early Modern Studies at the American Academy in Rome.

Her dissertation, “The Codex Ríos (Codex Vaticanus A) and the Reception of Mesoamerican Pictography in Early Modern Italy,” examines the production, translation, circulation, and reproductive afterlife of illustrated Mexican codices in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy.

Shannah holds a BFA from the University of Virginia and an MA from Tulane University. Her research has been supported by the Newberry Library, Rare Book School, the Renaissance Society of America, the Medici Archive Project, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Tinker Foundation.

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