Susan Naramore

Susan Anne Naramore is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame Rome, where she is an instructor for the course All Roads Lead to Rome. She is a cultural and social historian of early modern Italy with a focus on Renaissance Tuscany and Umbria. Her dissertation, “Country Folk in the City: The Mugello, the Medici’s Ascension, and the Development of Tuscan Identity,” explored the socio-political situation in Florence during the Medici rise to power in the fifteenth century and the family’s interaction with the Florentine countryside. Dr. Naramore's research interests include state-building, identity, cultural memory, and gender in early modern Italy.