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Assistant Professor
of
History
Northwestern University Ph.D., 1999
Email:
Phone:
212.998.8621
Office Address:
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Building
Room 509
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Areas of Research/Interest: Early Modern Europe; Environmental History; History of Science and Technology; History of Animals; Mediterranean History.
Selected Works:
Book:
A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
In Progress:
Book: Meat Matters: Epizootics, Economy, and Science in Eighteenth-Century Italy (writing underway)
Articles/Chapters:
"Inventing Nature: Forests, Forestry and State Power in Renaissance Venice." The Journal of Modern History, 72 (2000): 861-89. (Winner of the American Society for Environmental History's Alice Hamilton Prize).
"Politics, Perception, and the Meaning of Landscape in Late Medieval Venice: Marco Cornaro's 1442 Inspection of Firewood Supplies." In Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe, edited by John Howe and Michael Wolfe, 70-88. Gainesville: The University Press of Florida, 2002.
"Tools for the Development of the European Economy." In A Companion to the History of the Renaissance World, edited by Guido Ruggiero, 259-78. London: Blackwell, 2002.
"Friend or Flood - The Dilemmas of Flood Control in Early Modern Venice ." In The Nature of Cities: New Approaches to Urban Environmental History, edited by Andrew Isenberg. Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press, 2005.
Research Interests:
My research examines the relationship between humans and non-human nature in the Renaissance and early modern period. I am most interested in working out how technical and scientific expertise helped individuals and institutions make sense of the connections between society and nature. I have written about forest and water management in Renaissance Venice, and am currently working on a history of the connection between widespread zoonotic diseases and the establishment of veterinary medicine as an academic discipline in early modern Italy.
Teaching Interests:
I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Italian history, environmental history, the history of science and technology, and mediterranean History.
