Gabriella Cianciolo
Gabriella Cianciolo Cosentino completed her degree in Architecture at the University of Palermo in 1999, where she also earned her PhD in Architectural History and Conservation in 2004. Since April 2022, she has been Professor of Architectural History at the Department of Art History (Faculty of Arts and Humanities) at the University of Cologne.
She has received grants and postdoctoral fellowships from Italian, German, and international institutions, including the MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research), the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Bibliotheca Hertziana, and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University.
From 2014 to 2017, she was a research associate at the Technical University of Munich, where she was responsible for a DFG-funded project. Between 2015 and 2019, she coordinated an interdisciplinary research project on Pompeii at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, funded by the Fraunhofer Society and the Max Planck Society. She completed her habilitation at the Technical University of Munich in 2020, and since the same year she has been leading the EU project GAP – Graffiti Art in Prison. Before joining the University of Cologne, she was Professor of History and Theory of Architecture in the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (2021–2022).
Her research focuses on, among other subjects, the architectural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, architectural theory and historiography, as well as cultural heritage and conservation. Her approach—at the intersection of architectural and art history—is strongly interdisciplinary.
Contact: gabriella.cianciolo[at]uni-koeln.de