executive board

Stephen Campbell

Stephen Campbell

Director, Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe
Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor and Acting Department Chair, Department of History of Art

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Research Interests: Reception of antiquity in Italy 1300-1600, literature and the figurative arts, art theory

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Sharon Achinstein

Sharon Achinstein

Sir William Osler Professor of English, Department of English

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Research Interests: Early modern literature, poetry, and poetics, gender

Earle Havens

Earle Havens

Director, The Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance
Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, The Sheridan Libraries
Adjunct Professor (full rank), Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

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Education: PhD, Yale University (History and Renaissance Studies)

Michael Kwass

Michael Kwass

Professor and Chair, Department of History

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Research Interests: Early Modern France, French Revolution, French Atlantic, globalization

Education: PhD, University of Michigan

Yitzhak Y. Melamed

Yitzhak Y. Melamed

Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of Philosophy

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Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, German idealism, metaphysics

Education: PhD, Yale University

Karen ní Mheallaigh

Karen ní Mheallaigh

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Classics

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Education: PhD, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Arielle Saiber

Arielle Saiber (she/her/hers)

Research Professor, Italian Head of the Italian Subdivision Director of Graduate Studies, Italian

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Research Interests: Dante, Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature and philosophy, History of mathematics, Early print history, Nonhuman Studies, Esoteric studies

Education: PhD, Yale University

professor emeriti

Gianna Pomata

Gianna Pomata

Professor, Institute for the History of Medicine

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Research Interests: Scientific empiricism, history of the body, gender history, women's history, Individualized medicine, medical care narratives, case histories, doctor-patient relationship, early modern European social and cultural history, history of medicine

Lawrence M. Principe

Lawrence M. Principe

Drew Professor of the Humanities, Department of the History of Science and Technology

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Research Interests: Early modern and late medieval science and technology, especially the history of alchemy/chemistry and issues of science and theology/religion

Education: PhD, History of Science, Johns Hopkins University
PhD, Organic Chemistry, Indiana University

Walter Stephens

Walter Stephens

Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies

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Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature

Education: PhD, Cornell University; PhD, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa