David Karmon
Professor, Visual Arts Department Chair
Biography
David Karmon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts at Holy Cross. Author of Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and The Ruin of the Eternal City: Antiquity and Preservation in Renaissance Rome (Oxford University Press, 2011), his writings on architecture, urbanism, and the history of archaeology have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and exhibition catalogues. He has received numerous accolades for his work, including the Lily Auchincloss / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the American Academy in Rome, as well as fellowships from the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library, the Clark Art Institute, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Bogliasco Foundation, and Dumbarton Oaks. As Book Review Editor for Europe, Asia, and Africa before 1750 (2018-20), and Chief Editor at the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2021-23), his expertise extends across many areas of the global built environment. He is currently working on a new book on Renaissance architecture and natural history.
News
David Karmon and Sara Mitchell, “All Roads Lead to Rome”
UMass Amherst Department of Architecture Lectures and Events, Fall 2023
Dumbarton Oaks Announces 2022-2023 Summer and Academic Year Fellows and Project Grants
Lecture video: “A Multisensory Approach to the History of Renaissance Architecture” (8 October 2021)
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Student-Generated Urban Studies Minor Debuts at Holy Cross (23 September 2021)
Meet David Karmon, the new editor of the JSAH (13 April 2021)
New JSAH Editorial Staff Appointments (26 January 2021)
Four Holy Cross Faculty Members Promoted to Professor (30 October 2020)
Rome Prize Winners 2015-16, American Academy in Rome (22 April 2015)