Lucia Galaretto, M.S.

Lucia Galaretto is a Doctoral candidate in Architecture at Columbia University. She specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture and material culture in South America, particularly as they relate to histories of imperialism, property, and trade. She is a Doctoral Fellow in the Minerva Fast Track Research Group “Architectures of Finance,” where she investigates the relationship between enlightened reforms and the emergence of secularized notions of artistic, economic, and legal value across the Spanish Atlantic world. Her research has been supported by the Society of Architectural Historians, the Thoma Foundation, the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University. Trained as an architect, Lucia holds an MS and MPhil from Columbia University.