Biography

Dr. Laura Hutchingame is delighted to be back at Trinity Hall for her second year. In 2025, she earned her PhD in art history from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where she studied the intersection of resources, architecture and politics in northeastern Italy, particularly Venice, from circa 1300 to 1560 C.E., focusing on wooden ceilings shaped like inverted ship hulls that appeared in religious and civic buildings. She has also published peer-reviewed articles on 17th-century Italian printmaking, such as Florentine etchings of ships and Venetian lace pattern books. At UCLA, she taught a range of art history courses as a teaching assistant and as an instructor, she developed and taught her own course on Northern Renaissance art. Since joining Trinity Hall in 2025, she has brought her art history background into her Honors World History classes, helping students develop visual analysis skills and understand artworks as a vital part of historical study.

She holds master's degrees in art history from UCLA and the University of Toronto, and a bachelor's degree in art history from Carleton University in her hometown of Ottawa, Canada. She grew up primarily in Ottawa, with time spent in the Netherlands and Bellevue, Washington, before returning to Canada for college. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, cooking, visiting museums and historic sites and spending time with her cockapoo, Polly, and her partner, Stan.