Steering Committee, 2011-12
Director
Julie Hardwick, Professor, is the author of The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France (Pennsylvania University Press, 1998) and Family Business: Litigation and the Political Economies of Everyday Life in Early Modern France (Oxford University Press, 2009). Her broad research interests include early modern European social and cultural history, economic history, legal history, as well as gender and family history. Professor Hardwick's faculty web page.
Program Coordinator
Daina Ramey Berry, Associate Professor, is the author of Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia (University of Illinois Press, 2007). Recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies, Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship, National Humanities Center in 2007-2008, she joined the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010, where she offers courses on gender and slavery in the United States. She is currently working on her second book-length manuscript, "Appraised, Bartered, and Sold: Assessing the Value of Human Chattels in the Plantation South." Professor Berry's faculty web page.
Steering Committee
Alison K. Frazier, Associate Professor, is the author of Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy (Columbia University Press, 2005), which received the prestigious Gordon Prize from the Renaissance Society of America in 2006. She offers courses in Medieval and Renaissance Continental Europe, especially intellectual history, religion, hagiography, biblical exegesis, manuscripts and printing. She is currently completing a book, "The Death of Pietro Paolo Boscoli," about an execution in Machiavelli's Florence, and editing a collection of articles on "The Saint Between Manuscript and Print," in addition to preparing editions of humanist saints' lives; a study of a quattrocento hexameral commentary; and a census of Bonino Mombrizio's c. 1477 "Sanctuarium." Professor Frazier's faculty web page.
Neil D. Kamil, Associate Professor, is the author of Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots’ New World, 1517-1751 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). He teaches the history and culture of the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds from the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, with special emphasis on art and material culture, artisans, and the history of science. He has completed a book manuscript "Matter of Politeness: Furnishing Expectation in the Huguenot Atlantic" (Johns Hopkins University Press, accepted, contract pending), and is currently working on a book study of escape narratives and inquisition transcripts from trials of Huguenot refugees from Aunis-Saintonge France, captured while headed for northern Europe, England, and the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Professor Kamil's faculty web page.
Denise A. Spellberg, Associate Professor, is author of Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ‘A’isha bint Abi Bakr (Columbia University Press, 1994), which will soon be reissued by Columbia with a new introduction in conjunction with her new biography of ‘A’isha, the Prophet Muhammad’s wife. Dr. Spellberg is completing another manuscript, Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an, which is already under contract. She teaches classes on early Islamic history, religion, and gender in addition to seminars on Islam in the United States and Europe. Professor Spellberg's faculty web page.
Jeremi Suri, Professor, and Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, is the author of 5 books on international history, foreign policy, and social change. His most recent book, published in September 2011, is Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama. Professor Suri appears frequently on radio and television to discuss foreign affairs. He also writes frequently for newspapers and magazines. Professor Suri blogs at: http://jeremisuri.net. A recent news article by the LBJ School on Professor Suri appears here.
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