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Margaret King

Professor   Department: History   Location: 501 Whitehead Hall   Phone: 718-951-5000 x2810   Fax: 718-951-4504   Email:   Margaret King's Web site

A native New Yorker, Professor King studies and teaches in the fields of the Italian Renaissance; the classical tradition; the social and cultural history of early modern Europe; women and learning, 1300-1800; and the history of childhood from antiquity to the present. King's current research is on mothers and sons in history. She has received Woodrow Wilson, Danforth, ACLS, NEH, American Philosophical Society, and Gladys Krieble Delmas fellowships; the Brooklyn College Broeklundian (2006-11) and Tow (2000-02) professorships; the Scaglione Prize for Translation from the MLA (2005); and two Marraro prizes (ACHA 1986, AHA 1996), among other honors. King has taught at Brooklyn College since 1972, in the History Department since 1980, and at the CUNY Graduate Center since 1987. Education: Ph.D., Stanford University - 1972 (History) M.A., Stanford University - 1968 (History) B.A., Sarah Lawrence College - 1967 (History) Areas of Expertise: Italian Renaissance; Renaissance humanism; history of childhood; women and learning, antiquity to 1800; European intellectual history. Books and Publications "Family and Childhood" annotated bibliography. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation. New York: Oxford University Press. http://oxfordbibliographiesonline/renaissance. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 "Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies." A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance. Eds. William Bynum and Linda Kaloff. London: Wellcome Institute. In press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 "The Venetian Intellectual Tradition." Early Modern Venice: 1400-1797. Ed. Eric Dursteler. Leiden: Brill. In press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 "Venice" annotated bibliography. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation. New York: Oxford University Press. http://oxfordbibliographiesonline/renaissance. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 "Women and Learning" annotated bibliography. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation. New York: Oxford University Press. http://oxfordbibliographiesonline/renaissance. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 'Women in Italy, 500-1500." Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation. Oxford University Press. Editor-in-chief, 2009- (multi-year contract). (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2010 Co-editor (with Albert Rabil, Jr.) of texts series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (University of Chicago Press) consisting of translations from Latin, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Croatian, and Russian of works by and about women of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries; 58 (of an eventual 60) titles published with Chicago 1996-2009; 4 titles published as of 2010, with an eventual 50 more planned, in a second series with the University of Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies and Iter, initiated 2009. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2010 More than 30 book reviews, review essays, and short articles, 1980-2010. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010 Review of A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700, by Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green. Renaissance Quarterly 62 (4): 1246-48. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009 Review of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684): The First Woman in the World to Earn a University Degree, by Francesco Ludovico Maschietto. American Catholic Historical Review 95 (2): 354-56. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009 Review of Venice, Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo, edited by Patricia H. Labalme and Laura Sanguineti White. Renaissance Quarterly 62 (1): 193-95. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009 "Childhood." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality throughout History, Volume 3: The Early Modern Period. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press. 46-49. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 "The Emergence of Mother as Teacher in Early Modern Europe." The Renaissance in the Streets, Schools, and Studies: Essays in Honour of Paul F. Grendler. Eds. Konrad Eisenbichler and Nicholas Terpstra. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. 41-86. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008 Review of Argisto Giuffredi: gentiluomo borghese nel vicereame di Sicilia, by Bernardo Piciché. Renaissance Quarterly 61 (1): 128-30. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 Review of Briefe zwischen Süd und Nord: die Hochzeit und Ehe von Paula de Gonzaga und Leonhard von Görz im Spiegel der fürstlichen Kommunikation (1473-1500), by Christina Antenhofer. Renaissance Quarterly 61 (4): 1230-31. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 "Concepts of Childhood: What We Know and Where We Might Go." Renaissance Quarterly 60 (2): 371-407. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 King, Margaret L. and Albert Rabil Jr. Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Honorable Mention Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, Collaborative Project, for 2007. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2007 "Kristeller ad feminam." The Scholarship of Paul Oskar Kristeller. Eds. John Monfasani, et al. New York: Italica Press. 127-40. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006 "Petrarca, l'autocoscienza, e le prime umaniste." Petrarca e i canoni del sapere: la dinamica della esemplarità. Ed. Valeria Finucci. Bulzoni. Italian translation of Petrarch, the Self-Conscious Self, etc., 2005. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006 Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History, 3rd edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. (Books and Publications: Book) 2006 "Childhood and Childrearing." New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Volume 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 309-16. Also eBook publication by Gale Virtual Reference Library. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2005 "Petrarch, the Self-Conscious Self, and the First Women Humanists." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35 (3): 537-58. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 Humanism, Venice, and Women: Essays on the Italian Renaissance. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Ashgate. (Books and Publications: Book) 2005 The Renaissance in Europe. McGraw-Hill. (Books and Publications: Book) 2005 King, Margaret and Diana Robin, co-editors and translators. Isotta Nogarola, Complete Writings: Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, Orations. Part of the series "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe." University of Chicago Press. Winner, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, Modern Language Association, 2005. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2004 "Mothers of the Renaissance." Europa e America nella storia della civiltà: studi in onore di Aldo Stella. Ed. Paolo Pecorari. Treviso, Italy: Antilia. 211-36. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2003 "Women's Voices, the Early Modern, and the Civilization of the West." Shakespeare Studies 25: 21-31. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1997 King, Margaret and Paul Oskar Kristeller. "Iter Kristellerianum: The European Journey (1905-1939)." Renaissance Quarterly 47 (4): 907-29. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1995 "Isotta Nogarola." Italian Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Ed. Rinaldina Russell. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood. 313-23. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1994 The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello. University of Chicago Press. Winner, Helen and Howard Marraro Prize for best book in Italian history, American Historical Association, 1996. Available as an e-book with the ACLS History E-Book Project: www.historyebook.org. (Books and Publications: Book) 1994 "Jacopo Antonio Marcello and the War for the Lombard Plain." Continuità e discontinuità nella storia politica, economica e religiosa: Studi in onore di Aldo Stella. Vicenza, Italy: Neri Pozza. 63-88. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1993 King, Margaret and Albert Rabil, Jr., co-editors and translators. Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works by and about the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy. 2nd edition. Binghamton, New York: Pegasus. Original publication, 1983. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 1992 "Isotta Nogarola, umanista e devota." Rinascimento al femminile. Ed. Ottavia Niccoli. Rome: Laterza. 3-33. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1991 Women of the Renaissance. University of Chicago Press. Published in Italian as Le donne del Rinascimento. Laterza. 1989. Further translations into Spanish, German, Portuguese and Dutch (1993-94); and Chinese (2008). (Books and Publications: Book) 1991 "L'Umanesimo cristiano nella Venezia del Quattrocento." La chiesa di Venezia tra medioevo ed età moderna. Venice, Italy: Edizioni Studium Cattolico Veneziano. 15-54. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1989 "An Inconsolable Father and His Humanist Consolers: Jacobo Antonio Marcello, Venetian Nobleman, Patron, and Man of Letters." Supplementum Festivum: Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller. Eds. J. Hankins, J. Monfasani, M. Pine and F. Purnell. Binghamton, New York: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. 221-46. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1988 "Humanism and Venice." Renaissance Humanism: Foundations, Forms and Legacy. Ed. Albert Rabil, Jr. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 209-34. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1988 "La donna." L'uomo del Rinascimento. Ed. E. Garin. Rome: Gius. Laterza Edizioni. 273-327. English translation Renaissance Characters, by Lydia Cochrane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1991. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1988 "The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello." Renaissance Studies: Intertext and Context. Eds. Anne J. Cruz, Wendy A. Furman and Maryanne C. Horowitz. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1988 Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance. Princeton University Press. Winner, Howard Marraro Prize for best book in Italian history, American Catholic Historical Association, 1986; Italian trans. Umanesimo e patriziato a Venezia nel Quattrocento, 2 volumes. Rome: Il Veltro Editrice, 1989. Available as an E-book with the ACLS History E-Book Project: www.historyebook.org. (Books and Publications: Book) 1986 "Book-Lined Cells: Women and Humanism in the Early Italian Renaissance." Beyond Their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past. Ed. P.H. Labalme. New York University Press. 66-90. Reprinted in Renaissance Humanism 1: 434-53. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1980 "Goddess and Captive: Antonio Loschi's Epistolary Tribute to Maddalena Scrovegni (1389)." Medievalia et Humanistica NS 1: 103-27. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1980 "A Study in Venetian Humanism at Mid-Quattrocento: Filippo da Rimini and His Symposium de paupertate, Analysis and Text." Studi veneziani NS 2, 1978: 75-96; NS 3, 1979: 141-86; NS 4, 1980: 27-44. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1978 "The Religious Retreat of Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466)." Signs 3: 807-22. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1978 "The Social Role of Intellectuals: Antonio Gramsci and the Italian Renaissance." Soundings 61: 23-46. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1978 "Caldiera and the Barbaros on Marriage and the Family: Humanist Reflections of Venetian Realities." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 6: 19-50. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1976 "Thwarted Ambitions: Six Learned Women of the Renaissance." Soundings 59: 280-304. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1976 "Personal, Domestic and Republican Values in the Moral Philosophy of Giovanni Caldiera." Renaissance Quarterly 28: 535-74. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1975 "The Patriciate and the Intellectuals: Power and Ideas in Quattrocento Venice." Societas 5: 295-312. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1975 Awards, Honors and Fellowships Broeklundian Professor, Brooklyn College, 2006-10. (Awards and Honors) 2010 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, Modern Language Association. (Awards and Honors) 2005 PSC/CUNY Research Award, 2002-04. (Grants and Fellowships) 2004 Brooklyn College Scholar Incentive Award, 2002-03. (Grants and Fellowships) 2003 Leonard and Claire Tow Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College, 2000-02. (Awards and Honors) 2002 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize, best book in Italian history, American Historical Association. (Awards and Honors) 1996 Tow Award for Distinction in Scholarship, Brooklyn College, 1994-95. (Awards and Honors) 1995 Favorite Teacher Award, Brooklyn College. (Awards and Honors) 1993 Grant-in-Aid, American Philosophical Society. (Grants and Fellowships) 1991 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant. (Grants and Fellowships) 1990 PSC/CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 1990 Howard R. Marraro Prize, best book in Italian history, American Catholic Historical Association. (Awards and Honors) 1986 NEH Fellowship, 1986-87. (Grants and Fellowships) 1986 NEH Summer Stipend. (Grants and Fellowships) 1984 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant, 1980-81. (Grants and Fellowships) 1981 PSC/CUNY Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 1980 American Philosophical Society Grant, 1979. (Grants and Fellowships) 1979 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant, 1977-78. (Grants and Fellowships) 1978 PSC/CUNY Award, Recent Academics, 1977-78. (Grants and Fellowships) 1978 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1977-78. (Grants and Fellowships) 1977 Grant-in-Aid, American Council of Learned Societies. (Grants and Fellowships) 1976 Faculty Research Award, CUNY, 1973-74. (Grants and Fellowships) 1974 Danforth Foundation Fellowship, 1967-72. (Grants and Fellowships) 1972 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1967-68. (Grants and Fellowships) 1968 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums More than 30 papers delivered, panels participated in, sessions chaired at conferences or as invited guest, 1973-2010. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2010 Costello Lecture, Manhattan College, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 Professional Leadership Editorial board, Renaissance et Reforme, 2004-10. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010 Editorial board, Renaissance et Reforme, 2004-10. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010 Executive board, Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center, 2009-11. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010 Executive board, Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center, 2009-11. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010 Manuscript evaluations for Renaissance Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Oxford University Press, Polity Press (Cambridge, United Kingdom), Prentice Hall, Princeton University Press, Stanford University Press, the University of Chicago Press and St. Martin's Press, 1980-2010. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2010 Manuscript evaluations for Renaissance Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Oxford University Press, Polity Press (Cambridge, United Kingdom), Prentice Hall, Princeton University Press, the University of Chicago Press and St. Martin's Press, 1980-2010. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2010 Member, Doctoral Faculty Policy Committee, CUNY Graduate Center, 2004-10. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010 Member, Doctoral Faculty Policy Committee, CUNY Graduate Center, 2004-10. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010 University Committee on Research Awards, Liaison to History panel for assignment of PSC research grants, 2007-10. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010 University Committee on Research Awards, Liaison to History panel for assignment of PSC research grants, 2007-10. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010 Proposal evaluations for ACLS Senior Fellowships, ACLS Ryskamp Fellowships, American Academy in Rome, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the NEH, 1980-2008. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008 Board of Governors, The Historical Society, 2003-06. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2006 Editor, Renaissance Quarterly, 1997-2002. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2002 Executive director, Renaissance Society of America, 1987-95. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1995 Editor, Renaissance Quarterly, 1984-88. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1988 Other Professional Activities Distinguished guest professor, University of Toronto, February 20-25. 1995