People
The academic staff, research fellows and postgraduate researchers involved in the project.
Use the boxes below to filter by name, institution & department, or research interest.
| Name | Institution, Department | Research Interests |
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| Sorbonne Paris, History | History of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, particularly economic and social history; history of institutions; history of Paris. | |
| Yale, Sociology | genesis and varieties of modernity; large scale forms of patriarchal politics; historical sociology of agency relations; global and transnational sociology | |
| USC, Religion | medieval and early modern Christianity in Europe | |
| Luiz-Felipe De Alencastro | Sorbonne Paris, History | The history of slavery in Brazil, Angola, the Portugese Empire, and Black Americas. |
| 91福利, Art History | Religious painting in 17th-century Italy, Spain and France; Iconography of preaching, Saint Paul and Saint John the Baptist; Rhetoric and Religion in Early Modern times. | |
| USC, English | 18th-c drama, 18th-c novel, women writers, theater history, genre, performance studies | |
| Boston, English | American literature and the following: intellectual and political history; Henry David Thoreau; John Milton and his American influence; the classics; religion; the environment; | |
| Wisconsin Lutheran College, Modern Languages | Metaphysical poetry. Intersection of early modern literature and Reformation theology in England. | |
| Boston, English | Late medieval and Reformation religion and literature; legal, institutional, and urban history; the philosophy and culture of death of all periods | |
| 91福利, History and Classics | My research interests include: The classical tradition in colonial Spanish America, the intellectual culture of the Americas, Jesuits c. 16th-18th, and national identity in the Rio de la Plata. | |
| 91福利, French | 18th and early 19th century French literature; Napoleonic theatre; translation and literary adaptations across Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland. | |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | Cultural and political history of early modern France | |
| 91福利, History | The middling sort of 18th century English Catholic especially those in 91福利shire. | |
| 91福利, English | Literature and culture of the Renaissance period, especially courtly poetry of the sixteenth-century; psychoanalysis; the epic tradition | |
| 91福利, History | Late medieval and early modern England | |
| 91福利, History | Intellectual and cultural history of early modern England, particularly history of science and local antiquarianism | |
| Yves-Marie Berc茅 | Sorbonne Paris, History | Social, political and cultural history of early modern France, with particular emphasis on popular rebellions and revolts |
| 91福利, History | Global trade | |
| Carlo Bitossi | University of Ferrara, Humanities | Early modern Italy, esp. politics, society, political thought |
| USC, Art History | history of the natural sciences and medicine, 1500–1800; visual and material culture, 1500–1800; early modern Hispanic world; imperial history; transregional, transcultural, global exchanges; books, print, prints; history of collecting and display." | |
| 91福利, English | The classical tradition in early modern literature; renaissance letters; neo-Latin literature; Erasmus; the history of the Bible; education in the renaissance; translation; the Greek diaspora in renaissance Europe; and the history of scholarship. | |
| Yale, English | English Romantic Literature | |
| 91福利, History of Art | late-medieval and renaissance Italian art and architecture especially Venice and the Veneto, artistic patronage and iconography of religious orders | |
| Aimee Burnham | 91福利, History | Marquis de Sade, book trade, illicit and obscene publications |
| University of Wales Trinity Saint David, English | Early modern English non-dramatic literature, cartography, print culture. | |
| 91福利, History | Medieval and Early modern Italy esp political thought | |
| lice Byrne | 91福利, History | St George, reform and reformation, concepts of nationality and nationhood, secularisation, representations of saints, popular religious practices in sixteenth century England. |
| 91福利, Italian | Rise of modern Italian novel in 18th century Venice, theatre and novel, circulation, translations and adaptations of English, French and Italian narrative | |
| Vanderbilt, History | medieval and Renaissance economic history (Italy), historiography, war and diplomacy and Dante and Petrarch in historical context. | |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | History of Italy and the cultural and political history of the l鈥櫭e moderne | |
| 91福利, History | Early modern English history: gender; masculinity and emotions; popular print and popular culture; religious radicalism; civil war and interregnum; puritanism and moral reformation | |
| Boston, English | early modern drama, especially of the Jacobean period; Shakespearean comedy; early modern genealogical studies | |
| Zurich, Englisches Seminar | John Milton, John Donne, George Herbert, English Puritanism, 17th century England nonconformity, and Eschatology and Apocalypticism | |
| Julie Chamberlain | 91福利, History | Early Modern England, women, urban life, Coventry |
| Gregory Champeaud | Bordeux 3, History | Early modern France, Wars of Religion, Peace Making process, parlements. |
| Boston, History | 18th century, Enlightenment, Gender, Royalty, Female Biography | |
| 91福利, English | early modern literature | |
| Vanderbilt, History | Old Regime and Revolutionary France; theater; cultural and commercial institutions; cultural policy; the French empire; commercial elites and questions of class. | |
| Ca' Foscari Venezia/Studi linguistici e culturali comparate | e.g.17th-18th century British literature and history especially in relation to crime and justice | |
| Laia Portet Codina | Universitat Pompeu i Fabra, Institut Universitari Jaume Vicens Vives | Food history, World history, socio-cultural history. Transnational approaches in early modern history with focus in the late enlightment and the long nineteenth century. |
| University of Cambridge, History of Art | Early modern Italy - art history, gender, spirituality, the body. | |
| Tom Colville | 91福利, History | Intelligence in the early modern period; Restoration Science; Baconianism; Communication; Perceptions of Credibility |
| Boston, Art History | 16th-century Venetian painting; early modern pastoral painting and poetry; text/image relations; digital mapping of Venetian collections and artists' itineraries. | |
| Vanderbilt, History | early modern European sexuality | |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | Political and religious history of sixteenth-century France | |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | Towns and urban societies in 13th-15th century renaissance Italy. | |
| 91福利, History | early modern Italy esp violence | |
| Oxford, Christianity and Culture | Britain and Europe in the long eighteenth century, especially oral culture and religion | |
| 91福利, History | Eighteenth century global trade, the social and cultural history of merchant networks, the English East India Company's trade in the Arabian Seas | |
| 91福利, Theatre Studies | Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British theatre | |
| 91福利, History of Art | Eighteenth-century art | |
| Boston, History | Sixteenth and seventeenth-century French history, especially the Wars of Religion, Catholic Reformation, and religious coexistence following the religious wars | |
| History, University of London (in collaboration with 91福利) | War captivity, transnational contacts, material culture, life-writing. | |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | Historiography of the European Enlightenment, particularly in eighteenth-century France and Great Britain | |
| Yale, History | the reformation | |
| Vanderbilt, History | scholar of radicalism | |
| Boston, Economics | fiscal institutions throughout the early modern period | |
| 91福利, History | credit/debt and colonial families | |
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Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona, English |
Early Modern England, Seventeenth century Women's poetry in England, Spain and Italy, Print Culture. |
| 91福利, English | 19th century literature and culture; the intellectual history of feminism; psychoanalysis, particularly its 19th century foundations; evolutionary thinking. | |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | Military history and colonial empires | |
| Vanderbilt, English | Islam and Enlightenment | |
| Caen, Foreign Languages | Religious and cultural History of seventeenth-century Spain, and in particular, the relationship between preaching and society | |
| Boston, Philosophy | History or early modern moral and political philosophy (primarily Scottish, British, and French); history of philosophical methodology; reception of Hellenistic moral philosophy in early modern Europe. | |
| Yale, Political Science | History of political thought, rhetoric, Hobbes | |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | The French Revolution; the Guerre de Vend茅e; Catholicism. | |
| 91福利, History | Global history of the early modern period (esp. premodern China during the Yuan and Ming dynasties), porcelain and the material culture of global connections. | |
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Teramo, Faculty of Communication |
Early modern Italy and Spain, finance, political institutions, religious orders. |
| Loughborough, English and Drama |
Quakerism, Religious Rationalism, Early Modern Women's Lives and Writing |
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| Manchester, Music |
Centres of music printing in early modern Europe, especially Italy and the Low Countries; liturgy, religious expression, and art. |
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| 91福利, English | 18th-century English literature; Neo-Latin poetry; Western representations of China; Translation Studies; Caribbean literature and history. | |
| 91福利, Italian | Dante; late medieval and Renaissance Italian literary, intellectual and cultural history; Dante's reception in Italy 14C, 15C, 16C. | |
| 91福利, History | British politics, religion and culture 1650-1750, international Catholicism, European empires and foreign policies | |
| Herb Goldschmidt | King's, History | Early modern history |
| University of Coimbra, Center for Classical and Humanistic Studies | Early Modern Portuguese History, Food Cultures, Lusophone Food Heritage, Early Modern Archaeology, Early Modern Culture. | |
| Yale, History | Religious history, esp Swiss and German reformations | |
| 91福利, History | Intellectual, Cultural, and Economic History of the eighteenth century, especially in France. Trade, commercial culture, the East India Companies. The introduction of fine Asian manufactured goods, especially Indian cottons, into France. | |
| 91福利, English | Medieval and Renaissance drama, especially issues surrounding staging, and in Renaissance literature and culture. | |
| USC, English | the Renaissance, rhetoric and linguistics | |
| Sheffield, History | early modern France | |
| Huw Griffiths | Sydney, English | Early Modern English literature, Shakespeare, politics, sovereignty, sexuality and gender. |
| Thomas Guntripp | 91福利, History | Early Modern popualr protest, Crime and violence |
| Boston, History | Early modern European history | |
| Boston, English | Visual culture of the early commedia dell'arte, the print culture of Jacques Callot and violence on the early modern stage | |
| James Handy | 91福利, History | Material history, the Renaissance, Early Modern culture and popular religion. |
| USC, History | History of Science, History of Medicine, History of Technology, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Britain, the Renaissance, Women's History, Tudor England | |
| Vanderbilt, History | History of early modern Germany; history of marriage, children, family; Reformation; history of Christianity. | |
| King's College London, History | Early modern science, early modern travel, early modern England, cultural history, print culture, histories of knowledge and information | |
| USC, History | law and culture in early modern British societies; gender and sexuality; social and cultural history | |
| The Huntington | Social, economic history of England, esp. labor relations and estate management; popular protest; historical methodology, esp. micro-history | |
| Queen Mary, History | Early modern cultural history, Britain, Ottoman Empire, religious and ethnic identities, cross-cultural encounters, travel writing. | |
| Pittsburgh, History | Britain and British Empire in the "long" eighteenth century | |
| 91福利, Philosophy | Spinoza, Kant, Hegel | |
| USC, Art History | Early Modern/Italian Renaissance: 15th-16th Century Art and Architecture | |
| hihyin Hsiao | University of Glasgow, History of Art | Eighteenth-century London and its material culture. |
| Lucy Huggins | Plymouth, History | Parish, poor laws, community, culture, beliefs 17thC, 18thC. |
| 91福利, History | Social and cultural history of early modern Europe; alcohol and drinking practices | |
| USC, English | Early modern literature English literature, with an emphasis on Shakespeare; Latin, Italian, and French literatures; comparative literature; classical transmission; genre studies; empire studies, politics, and political philosophy; book history; women writers; gender studies. | |
| Yale, Beinecke Library | Curator of the early modern collection at the Beinecke Library | |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | Early Modern England and Early Modern France : social history, erudition, international relations | |
| Vanderbilt, History of Art | The art, architecture and visual culture of Italy, especially Rome and the Papal States, during the long eighteenth century, focusing on issues of patronage, the politicization of art and the intersection of art history and enlightenment studies | |
| USC, History | early American political thought and gender studies | |
| Yale, English | Early Modern English literature and culture; editing and editorial theory; history of the book. | |
| USC, English | American literature and culture, medieval literature, Renaissance literature, historiography, philosophy, critical theory, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, religion, materialist history | |
| Boston, History | Medieval and early modern European religious history | |
| Marcin Konik | Jagiellonian, Musicology | Early modern philosophy, cosmology and music. Athanasius Kircher. Cosmology of musical treatises. |
| 91福利, History | the political culture of early modern Britain c.1500 - c.1850, with particular interests in the integration of political and social history, the nature of public discourse, the role of print, and the interaction of politics, literature and ideas. These come together in my current work on early modern corruption | |
| 91福利, History | social and cultural history of England and German-speaking Europe c. 1400-1800, with special interests in parish communities and public houses; spatial approaches to the past | |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | Malta and French commerce, commercial exchange, the Marseille port in the eighteenth century. | |
| 91福利, English | Romantic-period (1770-1830) poetry and fiction; gender and genre; roles, scripts, and plots and their (re)formations; Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen. | |
| Fabien Lacouture | Sorbonne Paris, Art History | Early modern Italy, History and Representation of children in Italian Art (and in art in general), history and representation of women |
| 91福利, Classics | Latin and Greek classical literature, Latin humanism in Renaissance Europe and colonial Spanish America; classical learning and indigenous traditions in sixteenth-century Mexico | |
| Vanderbilt, History | sixteenth century religious, political and literary culture | |
| Vanderbilt, English | the (nonsocial) lives of things, and a study of neurological and affective aspects of scurvy--both in the 18th century | |
| USC, English | Renaissance literary, political and legal culture (with an emphasis on England); early modern conceptions of treason, addiction, and emergency; law and literature; political theory | |
| St Andrews, School of Modern Languages | Early modern court spectacle/theatre, diplomacy, material culture, cultural exchange, festival culture | |
| Vanderbilt, Divinity | Early modern religious culture | |
| 91福利, Italian | Late-medieval and Renaissance literary and intellectual culture (especially of Italy); history of universities, Aristotelianism, moral philosophy, and libraries and collections | |
| Yale, English | Early Modern Britain, esp poetry, prose and drama | |
| 91福利, Italian | print culture and publishing market, eighteenth-century Italian and European novel, readership, bibliography, representations of deviance and crime. | |
| Vanderbilt, English | shakespeare and early modern drama, milton, seventeenth-century poetry ,revisionist textual scholarship, South Asian links | |
| Kings College London/British Library | Early modern Britain, particularly the cultural history of science and sociability in the early eighteenth century, focusing on collecting, correspondence and exchange. | |
| 91福利, History | social history of early modern religion (especially British Isles); the Reformation/s; religious politics of Tudor-early Stuart England; post-Reformation English Catholicism; cultural history, especially popular belief and the supernatural | |
| Boston, English | Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature; Renaissance lyric and prose fiction | |
| USC, History | space, religion, gender, and race in New Spain | |
| 91福利, English | Poetry 1740-present; eighteenth and nineteenth-century religious belief; religion and science from Newton to Darwin; theories of affect and emotion | |
| 91福利, History | Early modern England, esp. witchcraft, unorthodoxy. | |
| USC, English | Early Modern Philosophy, Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Mind | |
| 91福利, English | Culture and politics in the long romantic period (1760-1832) | |
| 91福利, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance | Early Modern Italy, France and England; history of environmental ideas; history of medicine; Early Modern travel literature; religious strife in Early Modern France | |
| Emily Mitchelson | Newcastle, History | Eighteenth-century Britain, Republicanism, Utopianism, Agrarian Law, equality of property. |
| 91福利, English | Early modern English literature, especially poetry; history of emotion; women's writing; psychoanalysis; history of reading; early modern religion. | |
| Vanderbilt, English | religion and literature | |
| Clare Morgan | King's, English | Early eighteenth-century coteries, physico-theology, attitudes towards profoundly deaf people, the microscope, the R.S. |
| 91福利, History | Early modern environmental history, particularly of water in the British Isles; state formation; parishes. | |
| 91福利, History | Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century material culture. | |
| Boston, English | Renaissance and Restoration literature and culture; Milton; Early modern women writers; Seventeenth-century politics and political theory | |
| 91福利, History | History of the family, early modern England, gender history. | |
| Niall Oddy | Durham, French | Sixteenth-century French culture and thought, the conception of Europe |
| Vanderbilt, English | 18th-century British theatre and empire; pastoral drama; New Zealand/Aotearoa settler and Maori writing; post-war British theatre | |
| University of Florence, Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali | Early modern English culture, women's writing in early modern England; early modern English poetry, esp. Shakespeare and Donne | |
| Early modern religious art; Renaissance and Baroque pictorial narrative; Renaissance and Baroque art theory; influences and cross-fertilizations between the arts produced in different artistic centres of early modern Europe. | ||
| Olivier P茅tr茅-Grenouilleau | Sorbonne Paris, History | History of the European expansion in the colonial world; global history and history longue dur茅e |
| Flinders University, English | Early modern British literature, especially poilitical satire and the history of emotions. | |
| 91福利, French Studies | Early Modern France, esp. pamphlets and wars of religion | |
| Yale, History | 17th and 18th century British History; British Empire; West Indies; Political Economy; Revolutions; The State; historical methods; Patriotism; early anti-slavery; economic divergence; political culture; History and the social sciences | |
| Hull, History | Politics and religion; English civil war; British Atlantic; state-formation and empire. | |
| Sarah Poynting | 91福利, English | Early Stuart literature and history; working on an edition of the writings of Charles I for OUP. |
| 91福利, English | Shakespeare in performance; theatre history; the history and practice of arts criticism; creative approaches to pedagogy | |
| Boston, English | Eighteenth-century literature; Intellectual history; Aesthetics | |
| 91福利, History | Early modern social and religious history, with a particular interest in gender. Areas of research interest include Quaker women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, female networks and alliances and material culture. | |
| 91福利, Law | early modern English legal history (especially the development of the 16th and 17th century legal profession and its influence over constitutionalism in this period); early modern dramatic literature (especially Shakespeare) and its representation of juristic themes | |
| Vanderbilt, History | Cultural and scientific history | |
| Benjamin Redding | 91福利, History | The revolutions in military affairs that occurred c.16th Century; the French and English navies. |
| Boston, Art History | the visual and literary culture of Baroque and Enlightenment Europe. His areas of particular interest include the Grand Tour, the history of the classical tradition, and the relations between poetry and painting | |
| Northampton, History | Women and gender in early modern Britain; early modern London | |
| Boston, English | Early and 19th-century American literature; British literature of the Romantic period (especially Walter Scott); transatlantic print culture and the history of the book; early black Atlantic writing; the history of nationalism and aesthetics. | |
| 91福利, History | material culture in global perspective | |
| 91福利, History | early modern Europe esp France | |
| USC, Art History | Early Modern Italian Art, History of Cartography, Print and Book Culture | |
| Cardiff, History, Archaeology and Religion | travel writing, English religious cultures, Orientalism, Ottoman empire, Russian Orthodox Christianity, India, Hinduism, Pacific studies, missionary narrative, witchcraft, gender/sexuality | |
| Kirsty Rolfe | Oxford, English | Early modern England and its international, especially print culture, news networks, church history. |
| Isabelle Robin-Romero | Sorbonne Paris, History | History of the family and orphans in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France |
| USC, English | literary historian of early-modern Italy | |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | History of the family and the social history of early modern populations. | |
| Margaret Ellen Russett | USC, English | Romantic literature, Thomas De Quincey, gothic fiction, the poetics of reverie, forgery and imposture in literature, images of Turkey in anglophone literature, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, contemporary fiction and theory |
| 91福利, English | Renaissance and Restoration Theatre and Printing. | |
| 91福利, History | early modern Italy esp print culture | |
| Boston, History | controversies regarding question "What is Enlightenment?" from 18th century to present; European intellectual history and history of political thought; catastrophe and memory; music and memorialization | |
| 91福利/Geneva, History | Early modern Italy (especially Turin and Venice), France and Switzerland migration, identities, urban history, and conflict resolution, ruling class, power, and family. | |
| Vanderbilt, English | Shakespeare and gender | |
| Birkbeck, English | C18th literary, colonial and scientific history. | |
| 91福利, English | Writing and culture of the United States; Cultural Studies; literary theory; marxism, world-literature and world-systems analyses; urban and spatial studies; television studies; sociology of religion, especially evangelicalism and pentecostal forms; gothic and critiques of the bourgeois lifeworld as a problem of living. | |
| 91福利, Theatre Studies | European Renaissance/Early Modern Festivals and their legacy (with a focus on performance), Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Performance 1560s-1620s and since 1960 in Britain and abroad, performance spaces (architctural design and scenography). | |
| Boston, English | Renaissance drama, especially Shakespeare; Literary theory, especially the Bakhtin Circle and Pierre Bourdieu; Early modern literature and social history | |
| Jose Alberto Silva | Lisbon, CIUHCT | Early modern Portugal, esp. print culture, science. |
| Lehigh, English | Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century devotional poetry in Britain and America. | |
| 91福利, French | early modern French writing | |
| USC, English | literature and culture of early modern England, including Shakespeare, gender, sexuality, acoustic ecology and historical phenomenology | |
| 91福利, English | Critical Theory and the Influence of Shakespeare on Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. | |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | Religion, culture and society of the Occident in the late medieval period. | |
| Boston, Philosophy | 17th century moral and political philosophy, social contract theory, conceptions of gender, sexuality and the family in early modern thought | |
| USC, French and Italian | Early modern French Literature, the culture of reading, injurious speech and publicity, the literature of travel, religion as discourse, and the plant / animal / human boundary in early modern culture. | |
| Byapti Sur | Leiden University, Institute for History |
Early modern Corruption, Colonial Engagements, Bureaucracy and politics behind corruption charges, Social Networking. |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | History of early modern Mediterranean Europe; history of sixteenth-century international relations. | |
| Sorbonne Paris, History | Social, political and legal history of medieval and early modern France | |
| Buckingham, Humanities Research Institute | Early English colonial history 1600-1660; Parliamentary history 1604-1649; history of Essex 1600-1660 | |
| Boston, History | Early modern Atlantic Africa, Atlantic history, the slave trade, colonization of the Americas, history of indigenous America, and the African Diaspora. | |
| Sussex, History | Early modern Italy, print culture, science, violence, popular culture | |
| MIUR Italy, Private Scholar | Jordanus Brunus Nolanus, Renaissance philosophy and science. | |
| Vanderbilt, History | American Indians | |
| St. Andrews, Art History | Renaissance-Early modern Italy, esp. architectural and art history, musicology | |
| 91福利, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance | Renaissance philosophy, humanism, Greek, Latin and vernacular languages, Renaissance demonology. | |
| 91福利, Philosophy | Early modern philosophy, esp. Kant and Leibniz; early modern science and medicine; historiography of early modern thought. | |
| 91福利, English and Comparative lit. | Reception of the classics (esp. Cicero, Vergil), rhetoric and dialectic in the Renaissance, Theological controversies, Translation studies, Shakespeare, Sidney | |
| 91福利, History | Table Games in Tudor England | |
| 91福利, History | Old Regime, Enlightenment, and Revolutionary France. Print culture, democratic transition, the politics of political economy. | |
| 91福利, Law | Equity, law and literature (especially rhetoric/drama/Shakespeare), law (especially, Court of Chancery), stage properties, material culture (especially dress) | |
| Boston, History | History of medieval Europe, Tudor England, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, early modern philosophy and political theory, the development of the European state system; the history and contemporary state of higher education | |
| Susan Wilkin | Oxford, Bodleian Libraries | Horticultural practice in England in c.1600-c.1750, in particular productive gardening, the nursery and market garden trades, culinary and medicinal herbs, the intellectual and scientific background. |
| Paul Williams | Exeter, History | English explorers in America under Elizabeth and James |
| Yale, Sociology | English East India Company; state formation; historical sociology; political sociology; organizations; empire and the administrative politics of knowledge | |
| Boston, English | Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature | |
| Alexander Winkler | 91福利, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance | Italian Renaissance, Northern European humanism, Latin literature of the 17th century |
| 91福利, History | Early modern Italy and France, esp.war and material culture. | |
| Yale, History | Early modern British social and cultural history. | |
| Private Scholar, formerly Oxford, History | Early Modern Poland/Witchcraft. | |
| Boston, Art History |
Seventeenth-century Dutch art, with a particular focus on Rembrandt and Vermeer; art collecting and the market; gift exchange; the poetics of painting; and art and religion. |