Joanna Smalcerz received her PhD from the University of Bern in 2017. She works on the history of the Italian art market and collecting in the late nineteenth century, the reception of the Italian Renaissance art, and the intersection of art trade, art historical scholarship and the politics of cultural patrimony. She worked on the Project for the Study of Collecting and Provenance at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and was Research Assistant and Lecturer at the University of Bern, as well as Visiting Lecturer at the University of Basel. She is the author of 'Smuggling the Renaissance: The Illicit Export of Artworks Out of Italy, 1861-1909' (Brill, 2020). She was visiting scholar at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome and the Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. Currently she is assistant professor at the University of Warsaw.