Sally Tucker holds a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of North Carolina Asheville and an M.A. in Art History from Syracuse University. Her M.A. studies included a year of coursework and research in Florence, Italy, as a Syracuse University Florence Fellow, where she completed her thesis entitled l’ottimo artista: Benvenuto Cellini’s Apollo and Hyacinth and the Sculptural Theory of Benedetto Varchi. Currently, her research focuses on Early Modern Italian literary academies, sixteenth-century art theory and Renaissance artists’ engagement with academic debate.

Upon completing her master’s degree and prior to joining the Italian Studies program at UC Berkeley, she lived and worked in Florence as a licensed guide and as a teaching assistant and field studies lecturer for university study abroad programs.