Faculty: Amanda Wunder

Academic Interests 

Early Modern Europe, especially Spain

Teaching and Research

My teaching and research focus on the history of early modern Europe, specifically on the art and culture of Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries. Lately I have been investigating the history of Spanish court fashions in the archives of the Royal Palace in Madrid. I recently published a new book, Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV (Yale University Press, 2024), which has also been translated into Spanish. My first book, Baroque Seville: Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis (Penn State University Press, 2017), explored the art and rituals that captivated me when I first traveled to Spain as an undergraduate, when I spent a year studying in Seville. I returned to Seville with a Fulbright fellowship as a graduate student to research my doctoral dissertation. After earning my PhD from Princeton University in 2002, I joined the History Department at the University of New Hampshire and held a fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before coming to Lehman in 2008.

At Lehman, I am the graduate advisor for the MA in History, and I teach courses on early modern Europe, Golden-Age Spain, and fashion history. I am also on the doctoral faculty in History and Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center, where I direct the program in Global Early Modern Studies. I will be away on fellowship leave in fall 2024 and spring 2025 to work on an exhibition about Spanish fashion at the Hispanic Society of America.

For more about my publications, please visit my website on Academic.edu.