CACSSS Graduate School

Biography:

University Education:

PhD: University of Chicago, 1986
AB/MA Syracuse University, 1978

Research and Teaching Positions: 

Professor of History, Jacobs University 2002-2009; Chief of Research, Medici Archive Project, 1999-2002; Associate Professor of History, Harvard University, 1991-1999; Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute (Florence), 1998-99; Rome Prize winner, American Academy in Rome, 1994-5; Assistant Professor of History, Cleveland State University, 1990-1991; Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1989-90; Assistant Professor of History, Notre Dame University, Indiana, 1985-87

Main Research Interests: 

Media History; Material Culture of Early Modern Europe; History of Culture, 1500-1800; History of Science, 1500-1800; Area Studies: Italy, Iberian World; Mediterranean Economies; Mind and Market 1500-1900; History of Knowledge

Academic Publications: 

Books:

Energy and Culture: Perspectives on the Power to Work, Ashgate 2006; Morandi’s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics, Princeton, 2002; Science and the Marketplace in Early Modern Italy, Lexington Books, 2001; The Social History of Skepticism. Experience and Doubt in Early Modern Culture, Johns Hopkins, 1999; Italy in the Baroque. Selected Readings, Garland, 1995; Science, Politics and Society in Eighteenth-Century Italy. The Giornale de’ letterati d’ Italia and its World, Garland, 1991; (ed. with Intro.) Giovanni Baldinucci, Quaderno. Guerra, peste e carestia a Firenze nel Seicento, Polistampa, 2001; (with Sabrina Baron) The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe, Routledge, 2000. Amore e guerra nel tardo rinascimento:  le lettere di don Giovanni de’ Medici e Livia Vernazza, Florence: Polistampa 2009; The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of 'Contemporaneity'in Early Modern Europe, Ashgate 2010

Over 80 shorter publications in: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales; History of Science; Journal of Modern History; Rivista storica italiana; Oxford History of Italy; Encyclopaedia of Social History; Journal of the History of Ideas; Encyclopaedia of the Enlightenment; Journal of the History of the Classical Tradition; Journal of European Economic History; Società e storia; Journal of Social History; History of Universities; Encyclopaedia of Childhood, etc.