Italian Studies

At Brown, Alessandra Franco focused her research on early modern Women’s history and more specifically on the history of charity and welfare, religious patronage networks, and the history of education and literacy. Her dissertation was entitled "The Conservatorio of Santa Caterina della Rosa: Sheltering and Educating Women in Early Modern Rome," written under the direction of Caroline Castiglione. She served as a research assistant for Evelyn Lincoln's digital project The Theatre that Was Rome.