Edward Muir

Italian social and cultural history; Renaissance

Office: 314 Harris
Phone: 847-491-3653
E-mail: e-muirnorthwestern.edu

Edward Muir (PhD Rutgers, 1975) is the Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences and works in Italian social and cultural history, especially during the renaissance. Besides receiving Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, he has been a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has edited three volumes of translated essays from the prominent Italian historical journal, Quaderni Storici, is a general editor of the book series "Palgrave Early Modern History: Culture and Society," and has served on the Board of Editors of The American Historical Review and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. He is the author of Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice, which won the Adams and Marraro Prizes, Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta in Renaissance Italy, which also won the Marraro Prize, and Ritual in Early Modern Europe. He is the coauthor of the textbook, The West: Encounters and Transformations. He is currently working on a series of essays on the idea of community in Renaissance Italy and a book, The Culture Wars of Late Renaissance Venice.

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