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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 (2006-2011) and Tow (2000-2002) professorships; the Scaglione Prize for Translation from the MLA (2005), and two Marraro prizes (ACHA 1986, AHA 1996), among other honors. Margaret King received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1967 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1972. She has taught at Brooklyn College since 1972; in the history department since 1980; and at the Graduate Center since 1987. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, 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 "Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies," in A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance, ed. William Bynum and Linda Kaloff (London: Wellcome Institute); in press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009 Article: 'Women in Italy, 500-1500" (2500 words), Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009 Editor-in-chief, Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation (Oxford University Press), 2009- (multi-year contract). (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2009 More than 30 book reviews, review essays, and short articles, 1980-2009 (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009 Review: of Francesco Ludovico Maschietto, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684): The First Woman in the World to Earn a University Degree, trans. Jan Vairo and William Crochetiere; ed. Catherine Marshall (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2007), in American Catholic Historical Review, 95.2 (2009):354-356. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009 Review: of Venice, Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo, ed. Patricia H. Labalme and Laura Sanguineti White, trans. Linda L. Carroll (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), in Renaissance Quarterly 62.1 (2009):193-195. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009 Series co-editor, with Albert Rabil Jr., 1996-present (ongoing): texts series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (University of Chicago Press) consisting of translations from Latin, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Polish, and Russian of works by and about women of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries; 50 titles published 1996-2008; an eventual 75 titles are planned with Chicago, while a second series, the Toronto Other Voice (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto Press), will be launched in 2008, featuring e-book as well as conventional print publication. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2009 "The Emergence of Mother as Teacher in Early Modern Europe," in THE RENAISSANCE IN THE STREETS, SCHOOLS, AND STUDIES: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF PAUL F. GRENDLER, ed. Konrad Eisenbichler and Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008), 41-86. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008 Article: "Childhood" (1000 words), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality throughout History, vol. 3: The Early Modern Period (Westport CT-London: Greenwood Press, 2008), 46-49. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 Review: of Bernardo Piciché, Argisto Giuffredi: gentiluomo borghese nel vicereame di Sicilia (Rome: EUROMA, 2006), Renaissance Quarterly, 61.1 (2008), 128-130. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 Review: of Christina Antenhofer, Briefe zwischen Süd und Nord: die Hochzeit und Ehe von Paula de Gonzaga und Leonhard von Görz im Spiegel der fürstlichen Kommunikation (1473-1500) (Innsbruck: Universitätsverlag Wagner, 2007), in Renaissance Quarterly, 61.4 (2008):1230-1231. (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 Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr., eds., Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). Honorable Mention award, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, Collaborative Project, for 2007. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2007 "Kristeller ad feminam," in The Scholarship of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. John Monfasani, et al. (New York: Italica Press), 127-140. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006 "Petrarca, l'autocoscienza, e le prime umaniste," in Petrarca e i canoni del sapere: la dinamica della esemplarità, ed. Valeria Finucci (Bulzoni); Italian translation of Petrarch, the Self-Conscious Self, etc., at 2005. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006 King, Margaret L. Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History, 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006. (Books and Publications: Book) 2006 "Childhood and Childrearing," New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005), 1:309-316. 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, 35.3:537-558. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 Humanism, Venice, and Women: Essays on the Italian Renaissance (Variorum Collected Studies Series; Hampshire UK: Ashgate, 2005) (Books and Publications: Book) 2005 The Renaissance in Europe (McGraw-Hill, 2005) (Books and Publications: Book) 2005 Isotta Nogarola, Complete Writings: Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, Orations, ed. and trans. (with Diana Robin), for series "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe" (University of Chicago Press); winner of the 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: Antilia), 211-236. (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 "Iter Kristellerianum: The European Journey (1905-1939)." With Paul Oskar Kristeller. Renaissance Quarterly 47:4 (1995): 907-29. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1995 "Isotta Nogarola," in Italian Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, ed. Rinaldina Russell (Westport, CT: Greenwood) 313-23. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1994 The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello (University of Chicago Press); winner of the 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: http://www.historyebook.org/ (Books and Publications: Book) 1994 "Jacopo Antonio Marcello and the War for the Lombard Plain," in Continuità e discontinuità nella storia politica, economica e religiosa: Studi in onore di Aldo Stella (Vicenza: Neri Pozza) 63-88. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1993 Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works By and About the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy, ed. and trans., with Albert Rabil, Jr. ( Binghamton, NY; 2nd ed., Pegasus, 1992; orig. 1983). (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 1992 "Isotta Nogarola, umanista e devota," in 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 (1993-1994); Chinese translation (2008.). (Books and Publications: Book) 1991 "L'Umanesimo cristiano nella Venezia del Quattrocento," in La chiesa di Venezia tra medioevo ed età moderna (Venice: 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," in Supplementum Festivum: Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by J. Hankins, J. Monfasani, M. Pine, and F. Purnell (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies; Binghamton, NY, 1988) 221-46. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1988 "Humanism and Venice," in Renaissance Humanism: Foundations, Forms and Legacy, ed. Albert Rabil, Jr. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988) 1:209-34. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1988 "La donna," in L'uomo del Rinascimento, ed. E. Garin (Rome: Gius. Laterza Edizioni) 273-327; Eng. trans. by Lydia Cochrane in Renaissance Characters (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991). (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1988 "The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello." In Renaissance Studies: Intertext and Context, ed. by Anne J. Cruz, Wendy A. Furman, and Maryanne C. Horowitz (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988). (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1988 Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance (Princeton University Press); winner of the Howard Marraro Prize for best book in Italian history, American Catholic Historical Association, 1986; Italian trans. Umanesimo e patriziato a Venezia nel Quattrocento, 2 vols. (Rome: Il Veltro Editrice, 1989); available as an E-book with the ACLS History E-Book Project: http://www.historyebook.org/ (Books and Publications: Book) 1986 "Book-Lined Cells: Women and Humanism in the Early Italian Renaissance," in Beyond Their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past, ed. P.H. Labalme (New York University Press, 1980) 66-90; also rpt. in Renaissance Humanism (see above at 1988) 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 (1980):103-127. (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, 2006-2010 (Awards and Honors) 2009 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, Modern Language Association (2005). (Awards and Honors) 2005 Brooklyn College Scholar Incentive Award (2002-2003) (Grants and Fellowships) 2002 PSC/CUNY Research Award (2002-2004) (Grants and Fellowships) 2002 Leonard and Claire Tow Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College (2000-2002) (Awards and Honors) 2000 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize, best book in Italian history, American Historical Association. (Awards and Honors) 1996 Distinguished Guest Professor, University of Toronto (February 20-25, 1995). (Awards and Honors) 1995 Tow Award for Distinction in Scholarship, Brooklyn College (1994-95) (Awards and Honors) 1994 Brooklyn College "Favorite Teacher" (1993) (Awards and Honors) 1993 American Philosophical Society, Grant-in-Aid (1991) (Grants and Fellowships) 1991 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant (1990) (Grants and Fellowships) 1990 PSC/CUNY Research Award (1990) (Grants and Fellowships) 1990 Howard R. Marraro Prize, best book in Italian history, American Catholic Historical Association (1986). (Awards and Honors) 1986 NEH Fellowship (1986-87) (Grants and Fellowships) 1986 NEH Summer Stipend (1984) (Grants and Fellowships) 1984 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant (1980-81) (Grants and Fellowships) 1980 PSC/CUNY Award (1980) (Grants and Fellowships) 1980 American Philosophical Society Grant (1979) (Grants and Fellowships) 1979 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1977-78) (Grants and Fellowships) 1977 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant (1977-78) (Grants and Fellowships) 1977 PSC/CUNY Award, Recent Academics (1977-78) (Grants and Fellowships) 1977 American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid (1976) (Grants and Fellowships) 1976 CUNY, Faculty Research Award (1973-74) (Grants and Fellowships) 1973 Danforth Foundation Fellowship (1967-72) (Grants and Fellowships) 1967 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1967-68) (Grants and Fellowships) 1967 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums More than 30 papers delivered, panels participated in, sessions chaired at conferences or as invited guest, 1973-2009 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2009 Professional Leadership Editorial Board, Renaissance et Reforme, 2004-2009 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009 Manuscript evaluations for Renaissance Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Oxford University Press, Prentice Hall, Princeton University Press, the University of Chicago Press, and St. Martin's Press, 1980-2009 (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2009 Member, Doctoral Faculty Policy Committee, Graduate Center, 2004-2010 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009 University Committee on Research Awards, Liaison to History panel for assignment of PSC research grants, 2007-2010 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009 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, 2003-2006 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2006 Editor, Renaissance Quarterly, 1997-2002 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1997 Executive Director, Renaissance Society of America, 1987-1995 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1987 Editor, Renaissance Quarterly, 1984-1988 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1984