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Florence Teaching Appointment

Each summer, FSU International Programs offers up to two appointments for Art History doctoral candidates to teach in Italy on the FSU Florence campus. Appointees spend class time with students on site in Florence’s many museums, galleries, monuments, and churches, and join the entire program on excursions to other cities in Italy. The program offers a unique opportunity for doctoral students to further their teaching experience as well as their own research abroad before or after the teaching appointment.

Each doctoral student who receives a Florence Teaching Appointment is responsible for teaching a single section of ARH 2000 – Art, Architecture, and Artistic Vision during one of two six-week summer sessions. Alternatively, one doctoral student may be appointed for both sessions. International Programs provides round-trip airfare and  housing, as well as a $2000 stipend per session.

The application deadline for the summer 2025 appointment is September 20, 2024. Doctoral students in good standing should express their interest in this position to the Academic Program Specialist, Emily Johnson, in the form of a CV and a letter that details teaching qualifications, prior travel experience, and how the opportunity will help advance their research.

Stories and highlights from previous Florence Teaching appointees:

Ashley Lindeman Inaugurates New Florence Program Teaching Post

Sarah Mathiesen’s Summer Abroad

Florence Group Picture
Notes from the field
"The international programs teaching appointment offered an amazing opportunity for on-site teaching. So often we only view works and sites in the classroom via a screen, but they are absolutely different in person. As a result, our class times were filled with insightful discussions. I'll forever be grateful for the experience of guiding these students and seeing them fully discover every aspect of an artwork firsthand."
Emily White
Florence Appointee 2024
“The International Programs Teaching Appointment provided priceless teaching experience, opportunities for international research, and the joy of seeing students engage with the visual culture of Renaissance Florence first-hand. The sense of wonder that flashes through a student’s eyes when they experience, truly experience, a work of art for the first time–I wouldn’t trade those moments for the world.”
Rachel Carlisle
Florence Appointee 2018
"The Florence program offers a special experience in that the city itself is our classroom. The groups I was privileged to work with quickly realized that our daily site visits to the Duomo, Accademia, Uffizi, and more, were not the main part of the course but rather its exclamation points. The real 'Aha!' moment is when they understand the importance of the time between the site visits, just walking the city. In those in-between moments they processed, asked questions, and soaked in their surroundings, putting past and present together. When else is your homework to search for street art while walking in the steps of the Medici?"
Sarah Mathiesen
2022
“Some of my favorite teaching locations were the Galleria dell’Accademia, the Palazzo Pitti, the Uffizi Gallery, and the Bargello Museum. I also introduced students to lesser-known Florence highlights like the Museo Novecento, to teach them about modern Italian art, and the Frilli Gallery, to discus the importance of the contemporary art market.”
Ashley Lindeman
Inaugural Florence Appointee