Cynthia has a doctorate in early modern history with a concentration in 15th-17th c. Italy, painting, social history, material culture, and paleography. 

Cynthia is a freelance art writer, editor, and translator and has worked on a wide range of projects from doctoral monographs and exhibition catalogs to translations of Boccaccio and Venetian galley auctions.

She is interested in cross-disciplinary work which incorporates art, social history, language, and creative communities. Born in Ticino, Switzerland, she has moved far too many times and now lives in Portland, Oregon.