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
Contact Information
- lmafp@jhu.edu
- Gilman 376
- 410-516-4807
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
Sharon Achinstein
Sir William Osler Professor of English, Department of English
Contact Information
- sachins1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 24
- 410-516-5575
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
Contact Information
- stephen.campbell@jhu.edu
- Gilman 170
- 410-516-4928
Research Interests: Reception of antiquity in Italy 1300-1600, literature and the figurative arts, art theory
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
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
Contact Information
- earle.havens@jhu.edu
- Department of Special Collections, Brody Learning Commons
- 443-743-7849
Education: PhD, Yale University (History and Renaissance Studies)
Michael Kwass
Professor and Chair, Department of History
Contact Information
- kwass@jhu.edu
- Gilman 338A
- 410-516-5789
Research Interests: Early Modern France, French Revolution, French Atlantic, globalization
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of Philosophy
Contact Information
- ymelame1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 274
- 410-516-0568
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, German idealism, metaphysics
Education: PhD, Yale University
Karen ní Mheallaigh
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Classics
Contact Information
- knimhea1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 114
- 410-516-0031
Education: PhD, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Arielle Saiber (she/her/hers)
Research Professor, Italian Head of the Italian Subdivision Director of Graduate Studies, Italian
Contact Information
- asaiber@jhu.edu
- Gilman 478
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
Professor, Institute for the History of Medicine
Contact Information
- gpomata1@jhmi.edu
- 1900 East Monument Street
- 410-955-3037
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
Contact Information
- walter.stephens@jhu.edu
- Gilman 408
- 410-516-7229
Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature
Education: PhD, Cornell University; PhD, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa