Linda Nolan

Linda Nolan, Ph.D. has taught art and architectural history courses with American study abroad programs in Rome, Italy, for over a decade. Trained in DEAI best practices, her dialogical and inquiry-based teaching addresses the impact of social and political change on the creation of art and architecture from antiquity to the modern period, with a focus on Italy.

She helped found the Rome Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and served on curriculum committees to develop more complete, multivocal art and architectural history courses and an MA program in Art History. 

Nolan was a Gallery Teacher at the J. Paul Getty Museum and worked as a studio assistant to the Southern California artist Raymond Pettibon. Fellowships from the American Association of University Women and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation supported her research. She also received grants to support her travels from the Dorot Foundation of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Academy in Rome (Summer Archaeology Program). She has excavated at Pompeii and in the Roman Forum, and has experience in art conservation.

She has published and presented at conferences on ephemeral devotional practices, politics of gift exchange, xenophobia, and female patronage. Her current book project, entitled “Tangible Devotion” considers the ephemeral material forms of devotion that filled early modern sacred architecture in Rome.

Degrees
PhD in Art History, University of Southern California, USA
MA in Art History, University of Southern California, USA
BA in Fine Arts and Art History, Lake Forest College, Illinois, USA
Semester abroad, American University of Rome, Rome, Italy