Karen-edis Barzman, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University, 1986), is Associate Professor of Art History at Binghamton University. Her work addresses the way subjects are caught in fields of linguistic, visual, and spatial culture by the performative aspects of self and community.

"Inspired by the work of Benedict Anderson, Barzman undertakes an interdiscplinary study of Veneitan identity, venezianita. A central question of the book is "did 'Venetian-ness' extend to the limits of this dispersed, trans-regional state, particularly its limits to the east where it bordered the Ottoman Empire"(2)? Barzman explores this qustion in five chapters [...] All five chapters are meticulously researched and footnoted, and Brill is to be complemented for producing such a wonderfully illustrated volume. Barzman's interdiscplinary work points to the complexity of Venetian identity and the important role of the Adriatic coast and Dalmatian territories in shaping that identity." David D'Andrea, in Sixteenth Century Journal, XLIX (2018).