Joseph M.Levine
Distinguished Professor of History

145 Eggers Hall / Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
Tel. 315-443-4144/Fax. 315-443-5876

Academic Specialization

Tudor and Stuart England, intellectual history of early modern Europe, historiography.

Education
  1. BA Cornell University
  2. MA Columbia University
  3. PhD Columbia University (1965)

Teaching, Administrative, and Professional Appointments
  1. Lecturer, Queens College, City University     1958-61
  2. Lecturer-Instructor, Columbia University     1961-64
  3. Instructor, Douglass College, Rutgers University     1964-65
  4. Visiting Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania     1965-66
  5. Associate to Full Professor, Syracuse University     1967-92
  6. Distinguished Professor of History, Syracuse Univ.     1992-
  7. Chair, History Dept., Syracuse University     1995-97               

Selected and Recent Publications
  1. Elizabeth I (Prentice-Hall, Englewood, 1969).
  2. "Tudor Antiquaries," History Today, 20 (1970), pp. 278-85.
  3. "Ancients, Moderns and History: The Continuity of English Historical Writing in the Seventeenth Century," Studies in Change and Revolution, ed. Paul Korshin (Scolar Press, Menston, 1972), pp. 45-72.
  4. "Reginald Pecock and Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine," Studies in the Renaissance, 20 (1973), pp. 118-43.
  5. Dr. Woodward's Shield: History, Science and Satire in Augustan England (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1977; second edition, paperback, Cornell University Press, 1991).
  6. "The Autonomy of History: R.G. Collingwood and Agatha Christie," Clio, 7 (1978), pp. 253-64.
  7. "The Stonesfield Pavement: Archaeology in Augustan England," Eighteenth Century Studies, 11 (1978), pp. 340-61.
  8. "Collingwood, Vico and the Autobiography," Clio, 9 (1980), pp. 379-92. (Reprinted in Vico Past and Present, ed. G. Tagliacozzo [Humanities Press, 1981])
  9. "Ancients and Moderns Reconsidered," Eighteenth Century Studies, 14 (1981), pp. 72-88.
  10. "Natural History and the History of the Scientific Revolution," Clio, 13 (1983), pp. 57-73.
  11. "The Battle of the Books and the Shield of Achilles," Eighteenth Century Life, 9 (1984), pp. 33-61.
  12. "Edward Gibbon and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns," The Eighteenth Century, 26 (1985), pp. 47-62.
  13. "William Nicolson, Virtuoso," in the Clarendon press edition of the London Diaries of William Nicolson, ed. Clyve Jones and Geoffrey Holmes (Oxford, 1985), pp. 11-17.
  14. "Method in the History of Ideas: More, Machiavelli and Quentin Skinner," Annals of Scholarship, 3 (1986), pp. 37-60.
  15. Humanism and History: Origins of Modern English Historiography (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1986).
  16. "Bentley's Milton: Philology and Criticism in Eighteenth Century England," Journal of the History of Ideas, 50 (1989), pp. 549-68.
  17. "Et tu brute? History and Forgery in Eighteenth Century England," Fakes and Frauds, ed. Michael Harris (Winchester, 1989), pp. 73-99.
  18. "Giambattista Vico and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns," Journal of the History of Ideas, 52 (1991), pp. 55-79. (Abbreviated versions in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 263 (1989), pp.564-65; New Vico Studies, 9 (1991), pp. 118-19.)
  19. The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age (Cornell University Press, 1991; paperback edition, 1994.)
  20. "Objectivity in History: Peter Novick and R. G. Collingwood," Clio, 21 (1991), pp. 109-27.
  21. Latitudinarians and the Ancient Wisdom," Philosophy, Science and Religion in England 1640-1700, ed. Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, and Perez Zagorin (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 85-108.
  22. "Sir Walter Ralegh and the Ancient Wisdom," Court, Country and Culture, ed. Bonnelyn Kunze and Dwight Brautigam (Rochester, 1992), pp. 89-108.
  23. "Taking Wing," Yale University Library Gazette, 69 (1994), pp. 53-61.
  24. Review art., Francis Haskell, History and its Images, Art Bulletin, 76 (1994), pp. 539-40
  25. Review art., R. G. Collingwood, Idea of History, Clio, 24 (1994), pp. 85-90.
  26. "Strife in the Republic of Letters," Commercium Litterarium: Forms of Communication in the Republic of Letters 1600-1750, ed. Hans Bots and Francoise Waquet (Amsterdam, 1994), pp. 301-19.
  27. "Deists and Anglicans: The Ancient Wisdom and the Idea of Progress," in Margins of Orthodoxy, ed. Roger Lund (Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 219-39.
  28. "Erasmus and the Problem of the Johannine Comma," Journal of the History of Ideas, 58 (1997), pp. 573-96.
  29. "Thomas More and the English Renaissance: History and Fiction in Utopia," The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain, ed. Donald Kelley and David H. Sacks (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 69-92.
  30. "John Evelyn: Between the Ancients and the Moderns," John Evelyn's Elysium Britannicum, ed. Therese O'Malley (Washington, 1998), pp. 57-78.
  31. Between the Ancients and the Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England (Yale University Press, 1999)
  32. The Autonomy of History: Truth and Method from Erasmus to Gibbon (University of Chicago Press, Fall, 1999)
  33. "Ancients and Moderns and the Origins of Modern Critical Historiography," Intellectual News, 8 (2000), pp. 83-91
  34. "From Tradition to History: Chillingworth and Gibbon," in Historians and Ideologues, ed. Anthony T. Grafton and J.H.M. Salmon (Rochester, 2001, pp. 181-210
  35. "Jonathan Swift and the Idea of History," Eighteenth-Century Genre and Culture, ed Dennis Todd and Cynthia Wall (Newark, 2001), pp. 79-95
  36. Review essay: "Mark Phillips, Society and Sentiment," for Clio, 30 (2001), pp. 253-58.
  37. "Ancients and Moderns and the Origins of Modern Critical Historiography," Intellectual News 8 (2000), pp. 83-91.
  38. "Matter of Fact in the English Revolution," Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (2003), pp. 317-35. 
  39. "The Rise and Decline of English Neoclassicism," Enlightening the British ed., A.G.M. Anderson, et. al, (British Museum, 2003), pp. 736-42.
  40. Re-enacting the Past:  Studies on the Evolution of Modern English Historiography (Ashgate 2004). 

Research Grants and Awards
  1. Folger Library Senior Fellowship     Fall 1971
  2. American Philosophical Society Summer Grants:     1972, 1973
  3. ACLS Fellowship     1978-79
  4. Syracuse University Summer Grants (6)     1980-91
  5. James Clifford Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (for "The Shield of Achilles")     1984
  6. Paul Mellon Senior Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts     1988-89
  7. A.W. Mellon Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (declined)     1988-89
  8. John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship     1989-90
  9. Visiting Appointment, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton     1989-90
  10. Chancellor's Citation for Academic Excellence     1992
  11. Folger Library Senior Fellowship     1992-93
  12. National Humanities Center Fellowship (declined)     1992-93
  13. Selma V. Forkasch Prize of the Journal of the History of Ideas (for "Giambattista Vico" 1991)     1992
  14. Leo Gershoy Prize of the American Historical Association (for the Battle of the Books)     1993
  15. Louis Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (for the Battle of the Books)     1993
  16. Fellow of the British Library: Center for the History of Book     1996