Sally Tucker

Sally Anne Tucker is a PhD candidate in the Department of Italian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (REMS). She also holds an M.A. in art history from the Syracuse University Florence Program in Italian Renaissance Art. Her dissertation research explores the representation of enslaved persons in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italian art and literature, with a specific focus on images and texts produced in the Kingdom of Naples. She is a 2025-2026 research resident at the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia” in Naples. Her doctoral research has also received support from the Berkeley-Naples Fellowship at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, the Gladys-Krieble Delmas Foundation, the ‘FLAS’ Fellowship, the Department of Italian Studies at UC Berkeley and the Designated Emphasis for Renaissance and Early modern Studies (REMS) at UC Berkeley.