Lorenzo Gatta

University of Italian Switzerland (USI; Switzerland)

Iroquois spatial thinking and the political imagination in the Early Modern Atlantic world, 1535–1775

2025–⁠2026: Spring

Lorenzo trained as an architect at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm before completing his PhD at The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2024. His dissertation, currently under revision for publication as Jesuit Confessionals in the Early Modern Southern Netherlands: Ritual, Space, and Materiality, was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and received the Promotion Prize from the Swiss Association of Art Historians.

Lorenzo’s current research explores the political resonance of Indigenous North American architecture in the Early Modern Atlantic world, with a focus on Iroquois and Huron town constellations across the Northeast. He has held fellowships at the Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut (Florence) and the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London, with forthcoming appointments at Villa I Tatti, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the John Carter Brown Library.