Professor Howard awarded Honorary Doctorate

St John’s College Fellow, Professor Deborah Howard, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by University College Dublin.

Professor Howard, Director of Studies in Architecture at St John’s and University Professor Emerita in Architectural History and Director of Research, received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (Litt.D) in a ceremony held in Dublin earlier this month.

University College Dublin awards honorary degrees each year to individuals who have attained outstanding distinction in their professional and creative fields including the arts, science, technology and industry.

A graduate of Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute of Art, Professor Howard has taught at University College London, Edinburgh University and the Courtauld Institute as well as holding visiting appointments at Yale, Harvard, Princeton and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Her principal research interests are the art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; music and architecture in the Renaissance; and the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Professor Howard is currently engaged in the Cambridge-based interdisciplinary project Domestic Devotions: the place of piety in the Italian home 1400-1600, funded by an ERC Synergy Grant. More information can be found HERE.

The second volume of her Festschrift, Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy, edited by Nebehat Avcioğlu and Allison Sherman, has been recently published by Ashgate Press. This follows the earlier volume Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories, 1450-1750.