background
Anne Leader conceived Digital Sepoltuario, an interactive website that chronicles the memorial landscape of medieval and Renaissance Florence, while she was Rush H. Kress Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence in 2009. After building an initial dataset, she redesigned the database schema and developed the public website at IATH with Worthy Martin and Susanna Klosko, with contributions from William Niebel, Doug Ross, Shayne Brandon, Ann Chesnut, Daniel Pitti, and Robbie Bingler.
project team
An independent art historian and author, Dr. Anne Leader has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) since 2016. She holds a History-Art History BA from Emory University and an MA and PhD in the History of Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She published her monograph The Badia of Florence: Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery in 2012 with Indiana University Press. In 2018 she edited and contributed to Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe and revised and edited Giuliano de' Medici: Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art by Josephine Jungić. Other work has appeared in essay collections and exhibition catalogues, and her articles and reviews can be found in a variety of journals including The Burlington Magazine, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Studies, Speculum, and Studies in Iconography.
Dr. Worthy Martin recently retired as Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. For over 20 years he had a substantial research appointment with IATH, which he served as Associate Director (1999-2009), Acting Director (2009-2017), and Director (2017 to 2022). Professor Martin is the primary information architect on numerous digital humanities projects through IATH, including Digital Sepoltuario. A partial list of his projects includes: The Chaco Research Archive, Digital Yoknapatawpha, The Collective Biographies of Women, The Life of the Buddha, Voting Viva Voce: Unlocking the Social Logic of Past Politics, Jefferson's University - Early Life Project, 1819-1870, Soundscape Architecture, Social Networks in Archival Context, The Independent Works of William Tyndale, Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection, and Virginia Emigrants to Liberia.
Dr. Susanna Klosko was Digital Humanities Project Designer/Manager at IATH from 2019 to 2023. Susanna collaborates with scholars in the conceptualization and design of digital humanities projects, particularly in designing the information and data architecture of historical databases. She has a PhD from Brandeis University (Jewish Studies) and a BA from William & Mary (History).
Sarah Wells has an MA in English literature and has worked in the digital humanities since 1995. She handles IATH operations as well as grant strategizing and development, communications, and project development and support. She has been instrumental in securing funding for Digital Sepoltuario from The National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kress Foundation, the Lounsbery Foundation, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Brendan McGlone studied humanities with a focus on Latin and medieval studies at Wesleyan University, spent two summers living and studying in Rome with the Paideia Institute, and wrote an honors thesis on a late medieval manuscript collection of Latin sermons. After receiving his BA, he moved to Italy as Rome Fellow for the Paideia Institute, studying Italian, Latin, and the history of the city after which he led tours and taught Latin courses to American high school students. After teaching English and Latin at Seton Hall Prep, Brendan is now back in Rome pursuing a degree in ancient and medieval church history and culture at the Pontificia Universita Gregoriana. He is the chief Latin expert for Digital Sepoltuario and has begun to review all transcriptions for accuracy and readability.