Specialization:
Areas of Concentration: 19th and early 20th century Italian art and architecture; European and American folk art
Faculty Advisor: Richard Wittman
M.A. Thesis: "'Fuimus Troes' — The German Discovery of Sicily from Riedesel to Goethe" (Yale University, completed 2016)
Bio:
Kyle Mancuso is a PhD student in the History of Art & Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work focuses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and American art and architecture, especially artistic responses to vernacular forms, folk customs, and popular culture in Italy and the United States.
He earned degrees in European history and Italian studies from New York University (BA, 2016), where his honors thesis on Sicilian folklorist Giuseppe Pitré won the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Award for excellence, and Yale University (MA, 2018). He has a background in museums, working in the education department at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University (2013), as a researcher and writer at the Yale Center for British Art (2017-2018), as a curatorial research fellow at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (2019–21), and a curatorial research associate at the High Museum of Art (2022–25).