Rowan Dorin
I am a historian of western Europe and the Mediterranean, primarily during the high and late Middle Ages. Much of my research tries to understand how law and society interact with each other, especially where legal norms conflict with social practices. Another strand of my research explores the history of economic life and economic thought, especially medieval debates over usury and moneylending. I have also written on the circulation of goods, people, and ideas in the medieval Mediterranean.
Diego Pirillo
I am a specialist of early modern Italy (1500-1800), and I have a strong interest in Gramsci, Marxism, and historical method. Reading the archive against the grain, my work strives to recover voices silenced by official narratives, including those of exiles, refugees, subaltern groups and persecuted minorities. I have also published on the intellectual history of colonialism, and on the ways in which the European expansion in the Americas shaped the Enlightenment and its idea of knowledge. My current research focuses on 3 main areas:
– Refugees and forced displacement
– Indigeneity, Colonialism, and the Enlightenment
– Gramsci’s ideas about time, history, and multiple temporalities
Kristin Primus
I am an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at UC Berkeley, where I also serve as the director of the Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (REMS). I am also affiliated with the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion and the program in Dutch Studies.
I am co-editor (with Andrea Sangiacomo) of the Journal of Spinoza Studies.
I also organize events for BHOP (Berkeley History of Philosophy), a newly-formed group for faculty and graduate students interested in the history of philosophy.
Sarah Rolfe Prodan
I am an Italianist, an early modernist, and a Michelangelo scholar. My primary research and teaching contributions center on Italian literature and cultural history of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
My current book project, Poetics of Piety in Early Modern Italy, builds on this earlier work to consider the ways in which male and female poets of devotional verse engaged the Word in text, image, and imagination in the sixteenth century. Combining diachronic and synchronic approaches to the study of early modern Italian verse, this project examines relations among religious practice and poetic form in the pre-Tridentine and post-Tridentine periods.
Tiffany Jo Werth
Tiffany Jo Werth (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Professor of English. Previously, she taught at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include Renaissance literature (particularly in its nondramatic forms), Reformation history, print culture, posthumanism, and the long history of environmental narratives. She also offers courses on speculative fiction / fantasy literature and utopian thought.
Bronwen Wilson
Bronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th– and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. Her research and teaching explore the artistic and urban cultures of early modern Europe (1300-1700), with a focus on space, print, portraiture, landscape, and transcultural, material and environmental interactions. Fellowships include Villa i Tatti in Florence, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Newberry Library, The Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
