Dr. Kevin J.F. Murphy
Academic Dean - Italy
As the Academic Dean for Italy, Dr. Kevin J.F. Murphy ensures that academic policies and procedures are followed and provides support to the faculty to ensure academic program integrity. More specifically, Dr. Murphy makes recommendations for faculty appointments, schedules courses, holds regular faculty meetings, manages student and faculty grievances, recommends curriculum updates, and oversees the day-to-day academic activities of the Italy programs.
Since moving to Tuscany from his native England in 1996, Dr. Murphy has taught Art History courses at many U.S. foreign study programs, including the Florence-based programs of Syracuse University (NY), Florida State University (FL), University of Michigan (MI) and Kent State University (OH). He is currently Academic Director of History of Art at the British Institute of Florence (Italy), has been appointed a Lecturer in Art History for the University of Bristol (England), and acts as Florence Advisor (Humanities) for the Art History Masters Program of Richmond the American University in London (England). He has also taught in the UK at the University of York (York).
Dr. Murphy earned his Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute at the University of London (England), where he also gained an M.A. in Art History. His doctoral thesis concentrated on the history of Florentine squares, and his research interests since then have focused on art patronage, Florentine palaces, and modern reception of the Italian Renaissance. Dr. Murphy has published on Florentine art, architecture and urbanism, and presented his findings at a number of international conferences including the College Art Association and the Renaissance Society of America. Most recently he contributed a chapter on nineteenth-century pictorial representations of the Italian Renaissance to the first volume of the series ‘Il Rinascimento Italiano e L’Europa’ published in 2005 by the Fondazione Cassamarca, Treviso. His undergraduate Art History studies were at the University of Essex (England).
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