315-443-2210
Ph.D., History,
Dissertation: San Giacomo dall’Orio: Parish Life in Fourteenth-Century
M.A., History,
Thesis:
“The Venetian Rock Crystal Workers’ Guild.”
B.A., History,
Employment:
Current Professor of History
and Fine Arts,
2001-02 Lecturer, Summer Humanities
Institute, “The Public and Private
in Medieval
2001 Awarded courtesy appointment in
Department of Fine Arts.
.
1991-97 Associate Professor of
History,
1987-91 Assistant Professor of
History,
1986-87 Program Officer, National
Endowment for the Humanities,
Division of Research
Programs.
1984-87 Assistant Professor of
History,
1982-83 Visiting Assistant Professor
of History,
Publications:
Books:
Patricians and Popolani: The Social Foundations of the Venetian
Renaissance
State (Baltimore: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1987).
Patrizi e popolani: La societa` veneziana nel Trecento (
Editrice il
Mulino, 1993). Italian
edition of above.
Books
(continued)
Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
Editor (with John Martin),
of an Italian City-State,
1297-1797 (
The Image of
Articles:
“Doge Francesco
Foscari in
“Vecchi, poveri, e impotenti:
The Elderly in Renaissance Venice,” in Marginal
Groups in Renaissance
Minnesota Press, forthcoming).
“City-State and Empire: Historical Overview,” in
Peter Humfrey, for the series
Cambridge University Press,
forthcoming).
“Concluding Remarks,” in The Art Market in
dell’arte
in Italia, secc. xv-xvii, ed. Marcello Fantoni,
Louisa Matthew, and Sara
Matthews-Grieco (
“Sepe ben guidar la optima constelation sua: Francesco Foscari as Procurator of
San Marco,” Studi Veneziani
n.s. 36 (1998): 37-55.
“L’assistenza e la beneficenza,” in Storia
di Venezia vol. 5 Il Rinascimento:
Societa` ed economia, eds. Ugo Tucci and Alberto
Tenenti (Rome: Trecani, 1996): 355-406.
“The Gondola as a Marker of Station
in Venetian Society,” Renaissance Studies:
8 (1994): 359-374.
“Aspects of Patronage in Fifteenth- and
Sixteenth-Century
Quarterly 46 (1993): 712-733.
“The Regulation of Domestic Service
in Renaissance
Journal 22 (1991): 661-677.
“Gender and the Urban Geography of
Renaissance
History 23 (1989): 339-353.
“Struttura familiare e legami matrimoniali a Venezia
nel Trecento,” Ricerche Venete
1 (1989): 131-165.
“The Aftermath of the Querini-Tiepolo Conspiracy in
Review 7 (1987): 147-160.
“Charity and Community in
Renaissance
(1984): 63-82.
“Quod sibi fiat gratia: Adjustment of Penalties and the Exercise of
Influence in
Early Renaissance
(1983): 151-168.
Current Research:
A biography of Doge Francesco
Foscari
Terraferma expansion and the crisis of Venetian
republicanism
Envy in late medieval
Grants, Awards, and Honors:
2003 Folger Institute,
Folger Shakespeare Library, Grant-in-Aid.
2002 Elected “Socio
Straniero” (Foreign Member) of Ateneo
Venetian Athenaeum).
2001-02 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow
(deferred from
2000-01).
2000-01 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, The National
1997 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Award (to
support the
conference “Venice Reconsidered” held at
September 1997 – Dennis Romano and John
Martin, conference
organizers).
1995 Trinity College Cesare Barbieri Prize (awarded by The Society for
Italian Historical Studies).
1990 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award,
(For excellence
in teaching, research, and service by a junior faculty
member).
Grant.
1988-9 Gladys Krieble Delmas
Foundation Fellow in
1985 National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Stipend.
1983
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid.
1981-2 Charles Phelps Taft Postdoctoral Fellow,
1979-80 Fulbright Dissertation Fellow
in
in
1973 Phi
Beta Kappa,
Paper, “Bernardo Giustinian’s Funeral Oration for Doge
Francesco Foscari,”
to be presented in a
special session in honor of the late Patricia
Labalme at the annual meeting of the Renaissance
Society of America,
Commentator for the session “Opera in Seventeenth-Century
Venice,” part of
a special conference
sponsored by the Journal of Interdisciplinary History
entitled, “Opera and
Society,” to be held at
Invited
Lecture, “The Doge De-sexed: Venetian
Rulership and Notions
of
Masculinity,” to be presented at the annual meeting of the
at the
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,
November,
2003.
Lecture, “Portraits of Venice through Time,” presented
at the Smithsonian
Institution,
the
Villa la Pietra, the NYU study center in
2003.
Paper, “Worldly Goods: Envy and Factionalism in late Medieval and
Renaissance Italy,”
presented at the annual meeting of the
Book Presentation, “Presentation of the book, The
Art Market in
17th Centuries,” at the annual meeting of
the
Session Organizer “Reliquaries and Banners: Their Uses and Meanings in
Three Renaissance Polities,” and presenter of paper,
“Symbols of Sovereignty: Military
Banners in Fifteenth-Century Venice,” presented at the annual meeting of the
Paper, “Worldy Goods, Envy, and Competition in late
Medieval and Renaissance
Paper, “At the Margins ? The Place of Servants in Venetian Society,”
presented
at the conference “News on the
Invited Commentator for seminar “The Catholic Church and Blacks in
Renaissance
DC, October 2001.
Final Roundtable Discussant at the conference “The
Art Market in
15th through
17th Centures,”
Paper, “The Tomb of Doge Francesco Foscari,”
presented at the Twelfth
New College Conference
on Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
Invited Lecture, “Politics and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance
The Commissions of Doge
Francesco Foscari,” presented at Villa le
Balze, the
1999;
Invited Lecture, “Vecchi, poveri,
e impotenti: The Elderly in
Renaissance
Renaissance Studies,
Paper, “The Elections of Francesco
Foscari as Procurator of San Marco and
as Doge,” presented at the
annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting,
Chair and Commentator, “Gender and
Class in the High and Late Middle
Ages,” 110th
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association,
Paper, “Food, Clothing and
Shelter: The Material Concerns of
Domestic
Servants in Renaissance Venice,” presented at the
New England Renaissance Conference,
Paper, “The Gondola as a Marker of
Station in Venetian Society,” presented
at
the conference “Renaissance Venice:
Continuity and Change,”
Paper, “The Family Model of
Master/Servant Relations in Renaissance
presented
at the Twentieth Annual Warwick University Symposium on
Renaissance
Invited Lecture, “The Dynamic of
Master/Servant Relations in Renaissance
Paper, “Aspects of Patronage in Renaissance
Venice,” presented at the Sixteenth
Century Studies
Conference,
Discussant for the Symposium “
Paper, “The Culture of Domestic
Servants in
Annual Meeting of the
American Historical Association,
December 1990.
Discussant for
held at the annual meeting of the Social Science History
Association,
Paper, “Masters and Servants: Identity and
presented
at the annual meeting of the
Paper, “The Masculinization of
Domestic Service in Sixteenth-Century Venice,” presented
at the conference “Gender and Society II:
Men in the Middle
Ages,”
and Control of Domestic
Servants in Renaissance Venice,” presented
at
SUNY
Paper, “Gender and the Urban
Geography of Renaissance Venice,” presented at
the
Paper, “Politics and Parishes in
Early Renaissance Venice,” presented at the
meeting
of the Renaissance Society of America,
Paper, “Apprenticeship in Early
Renaissance Venice,” presented at the Sixth
New College Conference
on Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
Session Organizer, “Gender and Power
in Renaissance Italy,” and presented,
“Gender, Space, and
Power: Men’s and Women’s Patronage
Networks
in
Early Renaissance Venice,” presented at the 101st annual meeting of
the
American Historical Association,
Paper, “The Aftermath of the
Querini-Tiepolo Conspiracy in
presented at the Fifth New College
Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
Medieval
On Medieval Studies,
Paper, “Neighbors and Patrons: Women’s Networks in Early Renaissance
Insubordination: Women in Medieval and Early Modern
Paper, “Artisan Networks in Early Renaissance Venice,” presented at the
98th Annual Meeting of the American
Historical Association,
Member, 2004-07, Advisory Board,
Society for Italian Historical Studies.
Member,
2003-05, American Historical Association’s Committee on Research
Grants, Subcommittee on
Bernodotte E. Schmitt Grants).
Member, Editorial Board of the series, “Changing
Perspectives on
Early Modern
Outside examiner,
Ph.D. Dissertation of Blake de Maria, December 2002.
Conference Organizer (with John Martin), “
History and
Civilization, 1297-1797,”
(Underwritten by grants
from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
and
the Ray Smith Symposium Series).
Member 1995-97, American Historical
Associations’s Joan Kelly Prize
Committee, (awards the prize for the best book in
women’s history or feminist theory).
Study Leader, Smithsonian Institution and Art
Institute of
of
Speaker,
Humanities
Program,” 1996-2000.
Member, 1996-Present, Honorary Committee, American
Friends of the Marciana
Library
Member, 1994, Cesare Barbieri Prize Committee,
Society for Italian Historical
Studies.
Panelist, (Grant Application Panel Reviewer), NEH,
Division of Education
Programs, November 1984; Division of Fellowship