Eric R. Dursteler

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Eric R. Dursteler
Born1964
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Historian, author
Known forAuthor of Mediterranean and Venetian history
SpouseWhitney Campbell Dursteler
Children3
Academic background
EducationMA, PhD
Alma mater Brigham Young University
Brown University

Eric R. Dursteler (born 1964) is a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and chair of the BYU history department. He is a lecturer and seminar presenter, and has specialized in the history of early modern Italy, the history of the Mediterranean including the early modern Mediterranean, and the history of food. He has authored, edited or reviewed multiple published works, including scholarly books about medieval and early modern Mediterranean, Venetian history, has authored encyclopedic entries, numerous book chapters, and journal reviews.

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Education and personal life

Dursteler is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served as a church missionary in Italy. [1]

Dursteler holds both a bachelor and MA degree from BYU, and an MA and PhD from Brown University. He completed his PhD in 2000. [2]

He resides with his wife, Whitney Dursteler, in Provo, UT, and has three adult children. [3]

Academic and professional career

Dursteler has been a faculty member of the BYU department of history since 1998, [2] and served as chair of the BYU history department from 2016 to 2019. [4] He has held a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and a Villa I Tatti fellowship from the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2006-2007). In 2020 he was awarded a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute.

He is the editor for News on the Rialto, "an annual publication devoted to providing an informational point of reference for scholars working on all aspects of Venetian studies, including the political, economic, social, religious, artistic, architectural, musical and literary history of the city, its overseas empire, and its mainland territories." [5] He was also formerly the book review editor for the Journal of Early Modern History, [6] and serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Mediterranean Studies. [7] He is a member of the Founding Editorial Board for Oxford Bibliographies Renaissance and Reformation. [8]

Selected works

Dursteler has authored numerous books, book chapters, encyclopedic entries, articles and reviews, some of which include:

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Awards

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  3. Rashae Ophus Johnson (December 18, 2005). "Provo:Growing Up". Provo Daily Herald.
  4. BYU faculty bio page for Dursteler
  5. "News on the Rialto" . Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  6. "Editorial Board". Journal of Early Modern History. Brill. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  7. "International Editorial Advisory Board". University of Malta. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  8. "Renaissance and Reformation". Oxford University Press. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  9. Ditchfield, Simon; Smith, Helen, eds. (2017). Conversions: Gender & Religious Change in Early Modern Europe. University of Manchester Press. pp. 21–40.
  10. Living in the Ottoman Realm: Sultans, Subjects, and Elites. Indiana University Press. 2016. pp. 182–193. ISBN   978-0-253-01948-6.
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