Courses

Recent and Upcoming Teaching:

Summer Quarter 2019: Florence: Living with History Flagship course for a new study abroad program in Florence.
Spring Quarter 2019:
- Italian Renaissance: Dante, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings
Winter Quarter 2019:
- History of European Civilization I
- Europe’s Intellectual Transformations Renaissance to Enlightenment
Fall Quarter 2018:
- Censorship, Information Control & Revolutions in Information Technology from the Printing Press to the Internet
Spring Quarter 2018:
- The Italian Renaissance
Autumn Quarter 2017:
- Censorship from the Inquisition to the Present
- History of Skepticism
Winter Quarter 2016:
- European Civilization I (Core)
- Patronage and Culture in Renaissance Italy and Her Neighbors: the second half of my two-quarter graduate seminar sequence.
Fall Quarter 2016:
- Italian Renaissance (Tues/Thurs 12 to 1:20; open to undergraduate and graduate students including non-history-majors. The course catalog says “upper level undergrads only” but if you are a newer undergraduate and interested in the course, you would be welcome.),
- Patronage and Culture in Renaissance Italy and Her Neighbors (Two-Quarter Graduate Research Seminar)
Spring Quarter 2016: on leave.
Winter Quarter 2015: on leave.
Fall Quarter 2015: on leave.
Spring Quarter 2015:
- Italian Renaissance (undergraduate course; see above)
- Renaissance Humanism (Tuesday 3 to 5:50; graduate course with hands-on rare books work, hosted in the rare books rooms of the library, open to undergraduates upon request)
Winter Quarter 2014: on leave.
Fall Quarter 2014: European Civilization 1 (Core)