Abigail Brundin

Prior to her appointment at the BSR, she was Professor of Italian in the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, University of Cambridge.

[3] Brundin co-led the project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, 1400-1600, which was funded by a grant of £2.4m from the European Research Council.

In 2017, the project developed the exhibition Madonnas and Miracles: the Holy Home in Renaissance Italy, in collaboration with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

[4] The project book, The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy, was co-authored by Brundin with Deborah Howard and Mary Lavern and was published by Oxford University Press in 2018.

[6] Brundin began her Directorship at the British School in Rome in September 2021, taking over from interim Director Chris Wickham.