Biography:Tara Nummedal
{{Infobox academic | name = | birth_date = | death_date = | discipline = European history
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- Pomona College (BA)
- University of California, Davis (MA)
- Stanford University (PhD)
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| children = | influences = | doctoral_students = | spouse = Seth Rockman | awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (2009) | sub_discipline = History of science Tara E. Nummedal is a professor of history and Italian studies at Brown University, where she holds the John Nickoll Provost’s Professorship in History.[1] Nummedal is known for her works on Anna Maria Zieglerin and the history of alchemy and natural science in early modern Europe.[2][3]
Biography
Nummedal is originally from Seal Beach, California,[2] and is a 1992 graduate of Pomona College. After earning a master's degree at the University of California, Davis in 1996, she completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2001.[2][4]
She joined the Brown University faculty in 2002.[1] Her husband, Seth Rockman, is also a historian at Brown University.[5]
Publications
Books
- Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2007)[6]
- Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)[7]
- John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in 19th-Century Natural History Illustration (with Janice Neri and John V. Calhoun, University of Alabama Press, 2019).[8]
Editor
With Donna Bilak, she is also the editor of a critical edition of Atalanta Fugiens by Michael Maier, Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens with Scholarly Commentary (University of Virginia Press, 2020).
Recognition
Nummedal was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tara E. Nummedal", Department of History: People (Brown University), https://www.brown.edu/academics/history/people/tara-e-nummedal, retrieved 2021-04-01
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Tara Nummedal", All Fellows (Guggenheim Foundation), https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/tara-nummedal/, retrieved 2021-04-01
- ↑ Wilford, John Noble (August 1, 2006), "Transforming the Alchemists: Some historians are rethinking the role of trial-and-error alchemy in the development of chemistry as a science", The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/science/01alch.html
- ↑ "Tara E Nummedal: Professor of History, Professor of Italian Studies", Vivo (Brown University), https://vivo.brown.edu/display/tnummeda, retrieved 2021-04-01
- ↑ Coe, Alexis (January 17, 2013), "Being Married Helps Professors Get Ahead, but Only If They're Male: A new study of history professors shows that married men get promoted faster than their single colleagues, while the opposite is true for women", The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/being-married-helps-professors-get-ahead-but-only-if-theyre-male/267289/
- ↑ Reviews of Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire:
- Bernardoni, Andrea (2009), "none", Nuncius 24 (2): 524–525, doi:10.1163/182539109X00796
- Brand, P. (April 2009), "none", German History 27 (2): 288–289, doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghp010
- Dym, Warren Alexander (February 2010), "Review", H-German, https://networks.h-net.org/node/35008/reviews/46135/dym-nummedal-alchemy-and-authority-holy-roman-empire
- Garber, Margaret D. (Fall 2009), "Untwisting the Greene Lyon's Tale", Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 39 (4): 491–500, doi:10.1525/hsns.2009.39.4.491
- Hayton, Darin (Winter 2008), "Review", Renaissance Quarterly 61 (4): 1343–1344, doi:10.1353/ren.0.0364, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/255916
- Janacek, Bruce (Fall 2009), "none", The Sixteenth Century Journal 40 (3): 1001–1003
- Kusukawa, Sachiko (December 2009), "none", The Journal of Modern History 81 (4): 989–991, doi:10.1086/650676
- "none", The American Historical Review 114 (4): 1141–1142, October 2009, doi:10.1086/ahr.114.4.1141
- Michaud, Claude (July 2008), "none", Revue Historique 310 (3): 702–704
- Moran, Bruce T. (Winter 2008), "none", Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82 (4): 944–945
- Popper, N. (May 2009), "none", Social History of Medicine 22 (2): 396–398, doi:10.1093/shm/hkp018
- Rampling, Jennifer (January 2011), "none", Technology and Culture 52 (1): 185–187, doi:10.1353/tech.2011.0041
- Remmert, Volker R. (2009), "none", Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 36 (1): 144–146
- Rey Bueno, Mar (2009), "Reseña" (in es), Dynamis 29: 383–386, https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/download/136781/186970
- "none", The British Journal for the History of Science 41 (4): 608–610, December 2008, doi:10.1017/S0007087408001647
- Shackelford, Jole (March 2009), "none", Isis 100 (1): 162–164, doi:10.1086/599664
- Shantz, Douglas H. (February 2010), "none", German Studies Review 33 (1): 164–165
- ↑ Reviews of Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood:
- Harrington, Joel F. (2020), "Review", Preternature 9 (2): 336–339, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/765258
- Janacek, Bruce (September 2020), "none", Ambix 67 (4): 408–415, doi:10.1080/00026980.2020.1806518
- Laube, Stefan (December 2020), "none", Annals of Science 78 (2): 250–252, doi:10.1080/00033790.2020.1850863
- Voltmer, Rita (2020), "none", Francia-Recensio: 2020/3, doi:10.11588/FRREC.2020.3.75516
- Zaytseva, Arina (Spring 2020), "Review", Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 15 (1), https://muse.jhu.edu/article/760678
- ↑ Review of John Abbot and William Swainson:
- Huff, Pauline (2019), "Book notes", Journal of Southern History 85 (4): 977–978, doi:10.1353/soh.2019.0246
External links
- Home page
- Tara Nummedal, Women Also Know History
- Tara Nummedal publications indexed by Google Scholar
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