Maddalena Alvi

After completing my PhD in 2021, I took on an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

My research in Cambridge has focused on the European art market during the First World War. In this comparative and transnational study of the art trade between 1910 and 1925, I employ quantitative and qualitative methods and sources. Funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Joint Centre for History and Economics (Harvard+Cambridge), as well as the German Studienstiftung has supported this project. 

Before starting my doctorate, I gained an MSc in Economic and Social History from the University of Oxford, completed a master's degree in art history and a traineeship programme at Christie's and worked in a variety of positions for non-profit organisations, cultural institutions, and art galleries.