executive board

Lawrence M. Principe
Director, Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe
Drew Professor of the Humanities, Department of the History of Science and Technology
PhD, History of Science, Johns Hopkins University
PhD, Organic Chemistry, Indiana University
Gilman 376410-516-4807
lmafp@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Early modern and late medieval science and technology, especially the history of alchemy/chemistry and issues of science and theology/religion

Sharon Achinstein
Sir William Osler Professor of English, Department of English
Gilman 24410-516-5575
sachins1@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Early modern literature, poetry, and poetics, gender

Stephen Campbell
Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor and Acting Department Chair, Department of History of Art
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Gilman 170410-516-4928
stephen.campbell@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Reception of antiquity in Italy 1300-1600, literature and the figurative arts, art theory

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
PhD, Yale University (History and Renaissance Studies)
Department of Special Collections, Brody Learning Commons443-743-7849
earle.havens@jhu.edu

Michael Kwass
Professor and Chair, Department of History
PhD, University of Michigan
Gilman 338A410-516-5789
kwass@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Early Modern France, French Revolution, French Atlantic, globalization

Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of Philosophy
PhD, Yale University
Gilman 274410-516-0568
ymelame1@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, German idealism, metaphysics

Karen ní Mheallaigh
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Classics
PhD, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Gilman 114410-516-0031
knimhea1@jhu.edu

Gianna Pomata
Professor, Institute for the History of Medicine
1900 East Monument Street410-955-3037
gpomata1@jhmi.edu
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

Walter Stephens
Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies and Director of the Italian Subdivision, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
Director of Graduate Studies for Italian
PhD, Cornell University; PhD, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Gilman 408410-516-7229
walter.stephens@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature