Sofia Hernandez is a Ph.D. candidate studying early modern architecture under Professors Carolyn Yerkes and Basile Baudez. She is an architectural historian of the early modern Mediterranean, focusing on Italian architecture and urbanism. Her research investigates the relationship between architecture, political power, and natural disaster in early modern Sicily. Her dissertation focuses on the rebuilding of eastern Sicily after the earthquake of 1693, and the response of the Spanish Crown. More broadly, her research deals with cultural exchanges between Spain and Sicily throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her further research interests include the travels of architects, earthquakes and natural disasters, the circulation and reception of prints and drawings, architectural ruins and spolia, and the historiography of baroque art and architecture.
Read Sophia’s full biography on the Department of Art and Archaeology website.
