Sarah Fugfugosh-Muñoz

Sarah Fugfugosh-Muñoz is a scholar specializing in late 16th and 17th-century European visual and material culture. Her work focuses on the emergence of still life and its relationship to domestic healthcare, botanical medicine, agricultural theories and practices, and foodways.

Her research interests broadly include early modern natural history, medicine, and botany. Her current projects specifically explore topics such as horticulture and plant migration, dietetic practices, and plants in gifting culture in Europe. Her work draws on sources like medical treatises and household receipt books, early modern agricultural texts, and personal correspondence to examine how ideas about plants, food, and health were shared and practiced.

With a decade of teaching experience, Sarah has instructed courses in art history at the University of California, Irvine, on topics including Italian Renaissance & Baroque art, medieval trade and materiality, and 17th-century Dutch visual culture. She has also lectured at California State University, Long Beach, and Whittier College.