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 -
Evelyn Lincoln
Research Interests: History of Science, Italian Art, Italian Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Renaissance Studies, History of the Book, Book Illustration, Early Modern Art History, Food -
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 -
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 -
William Monroe
Research Interests: Church History; Legal History; Manuscript Studies; Early Printing -
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 -
Niel 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