Romana Sammern is an art historian and permanent research scholar at the University of Salzburg. She researches and teaches at the intersection of the body, art, cosmetics, and medicine in the early modern period, with relevance to the present.
She received her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin (Hurenbilder, published by Böhlau in 2014). In December 2023, she completed her interdisciplinary art historical habilitation project Beauty, Art and the Body in the Early Modern Period at the University of Passau. She is currently working on her second book on “Cosmetics and Art” in the early modern period. She is co-curator of the upcoming exhibition “The Art of Beauty – 5000 Years of Beauty” (18.6. –5.10.2025, Schloss Ambras Innsbruck, Austria). In 2022, along with Erin Griffey and Montserrat Cabré, she co-founded Beauty Talks, a seminar series on beautifying practices.