Martha C. Howell | |
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2002) |
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Discipline | Medieval history |
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Martha C. Howell is an American historian. She is Miriam Champion Emerita Professor of History at Columbia University. [1]
Howell received her B.A. from Georgetown University,and both her M.A. and PhD. from Columbia University. [1] She taught at Rutgers University before joining the Columbia University faculty in 1989,serving as Director of the university's Institute for Research on Women and Gender from 1989 to 1995. [1] Her specialization is the socioeconomic and women's history in Northern Europe during the late Medieval and Early modern centuries,focusing on the Netherlands,northern France,and Germany. [2]
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 in the field of Medieval history. [3] She received an honorary doctorate from Ghent University and was elected a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. [4] [5]
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