Dr. Carmen Belmonte

Carmen Belmonte is an Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art History at Roma Tre University, and 2019 Italian Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.  

Her research on the visual and material culture of Italian colonialism, and on the legacy and memory of Fascism has been supported by several academic institutions including the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute, the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, New York.  

Starting from 2014, she co-developed together with Gerhard Wolf and Elisabetta Scirocco the ongoing KHI project Storia dell'arte e catastrofi: L'Italia sismica. As part of this project she co-led the group L'Aquila as a Post-Catastrophe City and curated the exhibition Photography and Catastrophe. Antonio Di Cecco in dialogue with the collections of the Photo Library.

Carmen was awarded several postdoctoral fellowships from international research institutions, including the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut for Art History (2017–2018), the American Academy in Rome (2018–2019), and the Italian Academy at the Columbia University, New York (2020). Since 2019 she is an external lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Florence. She published her research in international peer review volumes and journals, and organized the conference A Difficult Heritage: The Afterlife of Fascist-Era Architecture, Monuments, and Works of Art in Italy (11–12 March 2019, Bibliotheca Hertziana, American Academy in Rome).