Michael J Waters

Michael J. Waters is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He earned his PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and was previously the Scott Opler Research Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford. He has also held fellowships at the Villa I Tatti, American Academy in Rome, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and Sir John Soane's Museum. His forthcoming book, Renaissance Architecture in the Making, examines how...See more

Michael J. Waters is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He earned his PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and was previously the Scott Opler Research Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford. He has also held fellowships at the Villa I Tatti, American Academy in Rome, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and Sir John Soane's Museum. His forthcoming book, Renaissance Architecture in the Making, examines how materials, methods of facture, building technology, and practices of reuse shaped the development of fifteenth-century Italian architecture. He has also published articles on the study of antiquity and early modern architectural prints, drawings, and treatises, and in 2011, he co-curated the exhibit "Variety, Archeology, and Ornament: Renaissance Architectural Prints from Column to Cornice," at the University of Virginia Art Museum. See less