Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Research Interests of Faculty and Associate Members
Faculty and Associate Members
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Onésimo Almeida
Research Interests: Philosophy, Intellectual History, History of Science, Modernity -
Shahzad Bashir
Research Interests: Religious Studies, Middle East Stiudies, Central Asia, Iran, Middle East, South Asia -
Laura Bass
Research Interests: Hispanic Literature and Culture, History, Art History, Miguel de Cervantes, Luis de Góngora, Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Fashion and Fiction, Poetry and Poetics, Urbanism and Empire -
Cynthia Brokaw
Research Interests: Book Culture, East Asia, Imperial China, Late Imperial China, Ming, Print Culture, Qing, Woodblock Publishing -
David Buchta
Research Interests: Late Medieval and Early Modern Religious Literature, India -
Caroline Castiglione
Research Interests: Political History in Italy and Europe Betweem 1500 and 1800, Microhistory, History of Women and Gender, Popular Culture, Law Courts and Legal Culture in Early Modern Italy and Europe -
Kaijun Chen
Research Interests: History of Technology, Late Imperial Chinese Literature, Material Culture -
Harold Cook
Research Interests: Early Modern Europe, Dutch Republic, Science Medicine, CommerceTranslation -
James Egan
Research Interests: 17th- and 18th-century British-American writing, the history of the book, the early modern Atlantic world, colonial British-American Orientalism, early modern theories of identity -
Paja Faudree
Research Interests: Drugs, Language, Latin America, Linguistics, Mexico, Mushrooms, Music, Salvia, Singing, Species Ethnography -
Stephen Foley
Research Interests: European Renaissance Culture and Letters, Classical Traditions, Literary Theory, Literary Form, Aesthetics -
Johanna Hanink
Research Interests: Athens, Drama, Greece, Literary Biography, Performance, Theatre, Tragedy -
Timothy Harris
Research Interests: Early Modern England, Scotland, and Ireland; Social History of Politics; History of Ideas -
Benjamin Hein
Research Interests: European History, Transatlantic Cultures, Migration, History of Capitalism -
Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Research Interests: Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Philosophy; Classical Traditions; Disability Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Stidies; Digital Humanities -
Frederick Louis Jodry
Research Interests: Early Music, Organ, Harpsichord, Brown University Chorus, Boston Camerata, Shcola Cantorum of Boston -
Coppélia Kahn
Research Interests: Shakespeare, Feminism, Gender -
Virginia Krause
Research Interests: Early Modern France, Witchcraft, History of the Novel -
Dian Kriz
Research Interests: Visual Culture of Britain and the Atlantic World in the 18TH and 19TH Centuries -
James Kuzner
Research Interests: Early Modern Literature, Selfhood, Political Imagination -
Andrew Laird
Research Interests: Renaissance Latin Humanism and History of Scholarship, Education and Intellectual History in Colonial Spanish America, Humanist Learning and Nahua Ethnohistory in Post-Conquest Mexico -
Pedro Germano Leal
Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Books and Material Culture in the Americas, Early Modern Iconography and Iconology, Emblem Studies, Jesuit Image Theory, Renaissance Hieroglyphs, Cultural History -
Allison Levy
Research Interests: Early Modern Italian visual and material culture -
Bertie Mandelblatt
Research Interests: Historical Cartography and Historical Geography; Historical Methods; Early Modern French Colonial History; Plantation Slavery; Commodities and Consumption; and the Early Modern Caribbean -
Ronald Martinez
Research Interests: Dante, Trecento Literature, Renaissance Drama, Cultural History -
Ambra Marzocchi
Research Interests: Latin in Early Modern Europe and Americas, Ethnohistory and Education in Colonial Spanish America, Jesuit Pedagogy, Renaissance Humanism, Manuscript Studies and History of the Book, Latin Composition, Reception of the Classics in Classical Music -
Stephanie Merrim
Research Interests: 16th-Century New World Historiography; the Baroque; 17th-Century Women's Writing in Spanish, English, and French; Contemporary North and South American Literatures; Latin American Existentialism -
Iris Montero
Research Interests: History of Science and Medicine, Colonial Latin America, Early Modern Iberian World, Indigenous Studies, Animal Studies, Nahua Ethnohistory -
Jeffrey Moser
Research Interests: Art history; China; East Asia; hermeneutics; intellectual history; material culture; ritual; Song-Yuan era -
Ourida Mostefai
Research Interests: Enlightenment Literature and Philosophy, Literature of the French and Haitian Revolution, Orientalism in the 18th Century, Emigration, Migrations -
Elias Muhanna
Research Interests: Encyclopedism, Book Culture, Intellectual History, Vernaculars, Islamic World, Classical Arabic -
Jeffrey Muller
Research Interests: Flemish Renaissance and Baroque Art, Peter Paul Rubens, Counter Reformation Art and Society, the Jesuit Global Strategy of Accommodation -
Jeremy Mumford
Research Interests: Early Colonial Andes, Mediterranean and Andean Ideas of Kinship and Sexuality, Comparative Indigenous Histories in the New World -
Karen Newman
Research Interests: Shakespeare; comparative early modern letters and cultures -
Tara Nummedal
Research Interests: Science and Medicine, Alchemy, Holy Roman Empire, Gender, the Body, Religion, History of the Book, Digital Publication -
Michael Putnam
Research Interests: Virgil, Pastoral Poetry, Classics, Latin Literature, Republican and Augustan Rome, Elegy, Epic -
Melinda Rabb
Research Interests: Literature and Culture of the Long 18th Century, Satire, War Trauma and Literature, Early Modern Women's Writing -
Richard Rambuss
Research Interests: 16th- and 17th-century English literature and culture; Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser; the metaphysical poets; devotional texts and images; the baroque -
Jay Reed
Research Interests: Ancient Greek and Roman Literature and Culture, Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry, Poetic Representation of Cultural Identity, Myth and Cult of Adonis -
Massimo Riva
Research Interests: Boccaccio's Narrative Work, Pico Della Mirandola, Information Technology, Digital Humanities, Virtual Realism in the 18th and 19th Centuries -
Felipe Rojas
Research Interests: Archaeology, Antiquarianism, Anatolia and the Levant, Comparative Intellectual History -
Neil Safier
Research Interests: Environmental and Ethnographic History, the Amazon River Basin, the Atlantic World, the Age of Revolutions -
Janine Sawada
Research Interests: Buddhism, Edo, Fuji Shinkō, History, Italy (Rome), Japan, Mt. Fuji, Neo-Confucianism, New Religions, Popular Religion, Religion, Shingaku, Shugendō, Tokugawa -
Connie Scozzaro
Research Interests: Law and Literature, Queer Theory, and the History of Sexuality -
Lewis Seifert
Research Interests: Early Modern France, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Libertinage, Folk Narrative, Environmental Humanities -
Holly Shaffer
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-Century Art and Architecture in South Asia and Britain, Pune (India) in the 18th Century, Print in the 19th Century, Ephemeral Arts in the Northern India Region of Awadh, 19th-Century European Representations of India -
Adam Teller
Research Interests: Early Modern Jewish History, Economic History, the History of Hasidism -
Karin Wulf
Research Interests: History of gender, family and politics in eighteenth-century British America
