Louis A. Waldman
Louis Alexander Waldman (; born October 29, 1965) is an American art historian and author specializing in the Italian Renaissance. Early life Waldman was born near Detroit, Michigan on October 29, 1965. Education Waldman attended Hunter College (B.A. 1989) and subsequently studied with Sir John Pope-Hennessy and Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt at the Institute of Fine Arts (Ph.D. 1999). Career Since 1999, Waldman taught at the University of Texas at Austin, where they received the College of Fine Arts Teaching Excellence Award (2008), the Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship (2004), the Department of Art and Art History Teaching Excellence Award (2005), and the Texas Blazers Faculty Excellence Award (2008). They were the first Assistant Director for Programs at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2007–10), and was for several years Associate Editor of the journal I Tatti Studies. Waldman's research on Florentine art is characterized by an emphasis on reconstructing social networks, families, artists' shops, and the workings of patronage. Waldman has held fellowships from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, the Fulbright Foundation, and Villa I Tatti. They were elected an Accademico d'onore of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in