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Edward Muir
Italian social and cultural history; Renaissance
Office: 1800 Sherman #107
Phone: 847-491-3653
E-mail: e-muir
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Edward Muir (PhD Rutgers, 1975) is the Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences and holds a Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence. He 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, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Newberry Library. 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 the series editor for the “I Tatti Italian Renaissance History” monograph series with Harvard University Press. He 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, Ritual in Early Modern Europe, and The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera. He is the coauthor of the textbook, The West: Encounters and Transformations. He is currently working on the culture of religious skepticism in Counter Reformation Italy.
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