Prof. Nadja Aksamija teaches a range of courses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architectural history. She has served as the director of Wesleyan's study abroad program in Bologna on two occassions and continues to advise students interested in studying in Italy. Prof. Aksamija's primary research interests revolve around villa architecture, literature, and ideology during the Counter Reformation, but she also works on a broad spectrum of topics related to late Renaissance landscapes in a variety of media. Her published and forthcoming books and articles have examined sixteenth-century villas and castles in Dubrovnik and Bologna, cartography and reform at Gregory XIII's papal court, notions of sacred landscape in Counter-Reformation painting and emblematics, and the restoration of Renaissance architectural monuments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With Clark Maines and Phil Wagoner, she has recently edited a volume entitled Palimpsests: Monuments, Sites, Time (Brepols, 2017), which features essays by Wesleyan faculty and alumni. Prof. Aksamija's research has been supported by numerous awards, such as the Getty Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collaborative Grant, and the Robert Lehman Fellowship at the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence.