Lu Ann Homza | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | Scripps College, University of Chicago |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | early modern Europe |
Institutions | College of William and Mary |
Lu Ann Homza is an American historian and scholar of the intellectual history of medieval and early modern Europe. She is a professor at the College of William and Mary and the school's former Dean for Educational Policy. [1]
She graduated with a B.A. from Scripps College in 1980 and received an M.A. in 1981 and Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Chicago. Her main interest is the intellectual history of Spain and Italy from 1400 until 1600 and her main focus of research since 1998 has been the Spanish Inquisition. [2]
E. Ann Matter is former Associate Dean for Arts &Letters and Professor of Religious Studies Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in Medieval Christianity,including mysticism,women and religion,sexuality and religion,manuscript and textual studies,biblical interpretation and sacred music.
King-Kok Cheung is an American literary critic specializing in Asian American literature and is a professor in the department of English at UCLA.
Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic,activist and author who specialises in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. She also teaches and writes on Hindu philosophy.
David Scott Brown is a Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College,Pennsylvania,United States. He is the author of several books,including biographies of Richard Hofstadter and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Joseph A. Amato is an American author and scholar. Amato was a history professor and university dean of local and regional history. He has written extensively on European intellectual and cultural history,and the history of Southwestern Minnesota. Since retiring,he has continued publishing history books,as well as five poetry collections and his first novel.
Lawrence B. Glickman is an American history professor and author or editor of four books and several articles on consumerism. He has taught at Cornell University since 2014,where he is Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies. Previously he taught at the University of South Carolina. Glickman earned a Princeton University B.A. in history magna cum laude in 1985,a M.A. in 1989 and his Ph.D. in 1992 both from University of California,Berkeley. He has written three books,A Living Wage:American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society,Buying Power:A History of Consumer Activism in America,and Free Enterprise:An American History.
Richard E. Foglesong is an American historian and political scientist who focuses on Florida and U.S. politics,New Urbanism and the politics of urban development,Hispanic politics,and the history of Walt Disney World and the Reedy Creek Improvement District. He is the George and Harriet Cornell Professor of Politics,Emeritus at Rollins College.
Kirin Narayan is an Indian-born American anthropologist,folklorist and writer.
Elizabeth Lunbeck is an American historian. She is Professor of the History of Science in Residence in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Antonella Romano is a French historian of science known for her research on science and the Catholic Church,and in particular on the scientific and mathematical work of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in the Renaissance. She is full professor at the Alexandre KoyréCentre for research in the history of science at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris,the former director of the center,and a vice-president of EHESS.
Serafina Cuomo is an Italian historian and professor at Durham University. Cuomo specialises in the history of ancient mathematics,including the computing practices in ancient Rome and Pappos,and also with the history of technology.
Linda Dalrymple Henderson is an American art historian,educator,and curator. Henderson is currently the David Bruton,Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on modern art,specifically twentieth-century American and European art.
Lynn Gamwell is an American nonfiction author and art curator known for her books on art history,the history of mathematics,the history of science,and their connections.
Judith Veronica Field is a British historian of science with interests in mathematics and the impact of science in art,an honorary visiting research fellow in the Department of History of Art of Birkbeck,University of London,former president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics,and president of the Leonardo da Vinci Society.
Lesley B. Cormack is a Canadian historian of science and academic administrator specializing in the history of mathematics and of geography. She is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of British Columbia's Okanagan Campus.
Christa Jungnickel was a German-American historian of science.
Tara E. Nummedal is a professor of history and Italian studies at Brown University,where she holds the John Nickoll Provost’s Professorship in History. Nummedal is known for her works on Anna Maria Zieglerin and the history of alchemy and natural science in early modern Europe.
Joan Marguerite Aida Ferrante is an American scholar of medieval literature.
Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier is a French-born American art history scholar whose research has included work on the art of the Italian Renaissance and on the influence of Pythagoras on art and philosophy into the Middle Ages and Renaissance. She is also known for bringing the first class action against an American university for its discriminatory treatment of women faculty.
John Wolfe Dardess was an American historian of China,especially the Ming dynasty. He wrote nine books on the topic,including A Ming Society. He learned Chinese in the American military,and was posted to Taiwan. Earning his PhD from Columbia University in 1968,he taught at the University of Kansas from 1966 to 2002,becoming director of the Center for East Asian Studies in 1995. One obituary summarised his principal legacy as consisting “not in any particular interpretation he offered,but in a voracious appetite for delving into the written sources,the courage to ask stimulating new questions,and the historical imagination to wonder about the common humanity that linked the authors he read and their communities with his own times." He drew notice for pointing to continuities in Chinese history and drawing parallels between contemporary and Ming politics.
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