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Jesús Escobar (Ph.D., 1996, Princeton; Associate Professor) is a specialist in the art, architecture, and urbanism of early modern Spain, Italy, and the Spanish world, and has published articles and reviews in leading journals of art history and early modern studies. His book The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid (Cambridge University Press, 2003; paper, 2009) explores the interchange of architecture and politics in the evolution of Madrid from a secondary city of Castile to the seat of a global empire. The book won the Eleanor Tufts Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies and has been revised in a Spanish-language edition published in 2008 by Editorial Nerea. Professor Escobar is currently at work on a new book project that examines seventeenth-century architecture and urbanism at the court of Philip IV in Madrid within the context of the larger Spanish world.

Professor Escobar serves on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Editorial Board of caa.reviews, the on-line review journal of the College Art Association, and as Editor for the scholarly book series, Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, published by the Pennsylvania State University Press. Prior to arriving at Northwestern, he taught at Fairfield University and held visiting associate professor appointments at MIT and Columbia. In 2004-05, Professor Escobar was a Fulbright U.S. Senior Research grantee to Spain and previously has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

At Northwestern, Professor Escobar has taught undergraduate courses on the High Renaissance in Italy and Baroque Art in Italy, Spain, and France, as well as a graduate seminar on Renaissance architecture in Spain.

j-escobar@northwestern.edu

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