Ph.D., History of Architecture and Urban Development, Cornell University
Anna Mascorella joins the School of Architecture as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Dr. Mascorella is an architectural historian and curator. Her work examines the intersection of geopolitics, class, race, and the built environment. Her research focuses on modern and early modern Italy, yet she explores this intersection in a range of geographic and historical contexts. Her courses interrogate the parallel and entangled global histories of architecture and urbanism.
Mascorella’s current book project, Restore, Displace, Appropriate: Confronting the Baroque in Fascist Rome, examines how Italy’s Fascist regime negotiated the architectural, sociocultural, and colonial legacies of the Baroque during its redesign of Rome. The research for this project has been supported by the Italian Art Society and Cornell University’s Institute for European Studies and Society for the Humanities. The project also received a Citation of Special Recognition from the Graham Foundation’s Carter Manny Award program. Her study on the transnational reuse of Fascist-era architecture was published in the Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation (2019).
Prior to joining the faculty at Syracuse Architecture, Mascorella was the 2022-2024 Fishman Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she taught architectural and urban history courses on campus and in Rome and served as a co-investigator on the Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis. Previously, Mascorella was the Temple Buell Curator of Architecture at the History Colorado Center in Denver, Colorado.
Mascorella holds a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urban Development from Cornell University, a Master of Arts in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Philosophy from Colorado State University.
