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PhD.
UCLA
Assistant Professor
Specialization: Early Modern Europe
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles,
1997
Courses Taught:
Hist
101: Western Civilization to 1600
Hist
204: Renaissance and Reformation
Hist
205: Absolutism and Enlightenment
Hist
330: History of
Italy
, 1200-1800
Hist
331: History of
Italy
, 1800-2000
Hist
346: Kinship in Premodern
Europe
Hist
416: The French Wars of Religion
Hist
480: History of the
Alps
Hist
481: The Mediterranean, 1200-1800
Hist
494: Introduction to Historical
Research
Hist
705:
Readings
in Early Modern History
Hist
706: Seminar in Early Modern History
Hist
791: Historiography
Research Fields:
Comparative
social history and political culture in old regime
France
and
Italy
(in the Savoyard lands in particular), Alpine history, local political
geography, family history
Research projects:
In
general, I am interested in political culture, which I understand in a very
broad sense to include institutional practices (I have worked extensively on
Savoyard taxation), patronage systems and informal political ties, and political
thought (customary and written). Two
of my current projects analyze formal and informal political institutions and
practices at different levels of society in the
Western
Alps
.
Both projects examine the resources and strategies brought to bear by
political actors at family, village, district, regional, and even broader levels
in their efforts to control territory and secure individual and collective
interests. The first project
explores these problems through an analysis of a border dispute in the
sixteenth-century
Maritime
Alps
between the
village
of
Ormea
(subject to the duke of
Savoy
)
and villagers from Pieve di Teco (subject to the
Republic
of
Genoa
).
The second project examines political culture in the Val d’Aosta/Vallée
d’Aoste between 1550 and 1630. A
third project examines cultural and ideological exchange between the
Republic
of
Venice
and early Stuart England, focussing on the role therein of the Servite friar
Paolo Sarpi.
Selected publications:
Jacques de Savoie-Nemours and
Renaissance Dynasticism — book manuscript approved for publication by
Librairie Droz
S.A.
,
Geneva
(currently being translated into French)
“Perché l’autonomia
istituzionale non significò meno tasse nella Bresse savoiarda (1560 - 1580)”
Quaderni storici 40, 1 (2005): 41-72
“The Political Autonomy of a Tax
Farm: the Nice-Piedmont
Gabelle of the Dukes of
Savoy
, 1535-1580,” The Journal of Modern
History 76 (December 2004): 745-92
“The Bresse Clergy Assembly and Tithe Grants, 1560-1580,” The
Sixteenth Century Journal 35, 3 (2004): 771-94
“Social Hierarchies: The
Upper Classes,” in Companion to the History of the Renaissance World,
ed. Guido Ruggiero (Blackwell, 2002), pp. 227-42
“Territorial Politics and Early Modern ‘Fiscal Policy’:
Taxation in
Savoy
, 1559-1580,” Viator 32 (2001): 279-302
“Paolo Sarpi and Early Stuart Debates over the Papal Antichrist,” Catholic
Millenarianism: From Savonarola to
the Abbé Grégoire, vol. 2 of Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture, ed.
Karl Kottman (
Dordrecht
–
Boston
–
London
: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001),
pp. 53-69
“Fiscal Commissions, Consensus, and
Informal Representation: Taxation in
the Savoyard Domains, 1559-1580,” Parliaments,
Estates, and Representation 20 (2000): 59-74
“Piedmont-Savoy,” in Encyclopedia
of the Renaissance, ed. Paul Grendler, vol. 5 (New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999), pp. 20-22
“Henry Wotton and the Art of Politics,” The
Center & Clark Newsletter.
UCLA
Center
for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies. William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library 31 (1998): 5-7
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