Niall Atkinson’s research focuses on the experience of architecture and urban space in early modern Italy to understand the build environment as a collective social construction of the body’s sensorial apparatus. His recent work has explored the relationship between sound, space, and architecture, and their role in the construction of civic society, culminating in the publication of The Noisy Renaissance: sound, architecture, and Florentine urban life (Penn State University Press, 2016). Atkinson also experiments with digital technologies to spatialize the demographic data contained in the 1427 tax census of Florence (catasto) into an interactive geographic platform. He is Associate Professor in the Departments of Art History and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.