Edward Muir - Curriculum vitae#

Curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

• University of Utah
  • 1969 B.A. in History, magna cum laude
• Syracuse University
  • 1967 Semester in Italy Program, Florence
• Rutgers University
  • 1970 M.A. in Modern European History
  • 1975 Ph.D. in Modern European History

• Stockton State College
• 1973 - 1977 Assistant Professor of Historical Studies
• Syracuse University
  • 1977 - 1981 Assistant Professor of History
  • 1981 - 1986 Associate Professor of History
• Louisiana State University
  • 1986 - 1992 Associate Professor of History
  • 1992 - 1993 Professor of History
• Yale University
  • Visiting Professor in Renaissance Studies, 1990, 1993-94 (taught mini-seminars for short periods)
• Northwestern University
  • 1993 Professor of History
  • 1997 Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 Professor of Italian
  • 2006 Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence

• Graduate Director, Syracuse University, 1980-82, 1983-84
• Graduate Director, Louisiana State University, 1988-91
• Department Chair, Louisiana State University, 1992-93
• Chair, History Department Self Study Committee, Northwestern University, 1994-95
• Department Chair, Northwestern University, 1997-98, 1999-2001
• Co-director of Graduate Program in Italian Studies, 2001-2011
• Associate Chair, Department of History, Northestern University, 2005-2008, 2009-11

• National Defense Education Act, Title IV Fellowship, 1970-72
• Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy, Fellow, 1972-73
• Committee to Rescue Italian Art, Fellow, 1972-73
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1977
• American Council of Learned Societies, Research Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., 1978
• Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and *Duke University, Junior Fellow, Summer 1979
• Senate Research Committee, Syracuse University, Research Grant, Summer 1980
• Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Travel and Research Grant, Summer 1982
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1982-83
• Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, Member, 1982-83
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship, 1985
• The Folger Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Director of Seminar on "Carnivals of Violence in Renaissance Italy and France," Spring 1986 (short version also held at Newberry Library, Chicago)
• Louisiana State University, Summer Research Grants, 1988 and 1989
• The Folger Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Participating faculty member for Seminar on "Ceremony and Text in the Renaissance," Summer 1991
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1992-93
• National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
• Associate Fellow, 1992-93
• Alice Berlin Kaplan Center for the Humanities, Fellow, 1996-97
• Rockefeller Foundation, Residential Fellow, Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1997
• The American Academy in Rome, Director’s Research Guest, 2001
• Ligurian Study Center for the Arts and Letters, Bogliasco, Italy, Research Fellow, 2002
• Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Fellow, 2004-2005
• Newberry Library, Chicago, Long-term Fellowship in the Humanities, 2008-2009

• Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association for the best first book on European History by an American citizen, 1982
• Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History from the American Catholic Historical Association for the best book dealing with either Italian culture or Italian-American relations, 1982
• Harold J. Grimm Memorial Prize from the Center for Reformation Research for the best article in Reformation history, 1989
• Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History from the American Historical Association for the best book in Italian history, 1993
• Excellence in Teaching Award, from the Northwestern University Alumni Association, 1999
• E. Leroy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, 2000-2001
• Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, 2006
• Distinguished Achievement Award, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2010, $1.5 million
• Academia Europaea, elected member, 2011

• Series Editor, I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History, Harvard University Press, three books published, four in press, 2007-
• Series Editor with Rab Houston, Early Modern History: Culture and Society series of Palgrave (ex-Macmillan Ltd., U.K and St. Martin’s Press, U.S.) Twenty-one books have been published in the series, 1993
• Board of Editors, American Historical Review, 1999 - 2002
• Board of Editors, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2002
• Board of Editors, Annales: Annals for Istran and Mediterranean Studies, 2004
• Advisory Board, California Italian Studies, 2008
• Historical adviser to Time-Life Books for volume, The Venetians, Seafarers Series. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1980
• Reviewer and adviser for The Renaissance by Theodore Rabb, text published by McGraw-Hill to accompany nationally televised PBS series of films on the Renaissance, spring 1993
• Read manuscripts for California, Princeton, Yale, Rutgers, Chicago, Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Penn State, and Johns Hopkins University Presses; for D. C. Heath; and for numerous professional journals
• Member of Program Review Commities: Departments of History at Indiana University, Emory University, Brigham Young University; Department of Italian, University of California at Berkeley; Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy

• Renaissance Society of America (History discipline representative to the council, 1997-99; 2010-Vice President and President-Elect)
• Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (Member of council and publications committee, 1998-2001; Vice President, 2003; President, 2004)
• American Historical Association (Committee on committees, 1997-99)
• Society for Italian Historical Studies
• American Friends of the Marciana Library (Vice President, 1996-2007, President, 2007-)
• National Humanities Center (Fellowship selection committee, 1998)
• Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Florence (Academic advisory committee, 1999-2003)
• International Consortium for the Study of Istrian History and Culture, Koper, Slovenia (Organizing committee, 1998-)
• Newberry Library, Chicago, Center for Renaissance Studies executive committee, 2003-
• American Academy in Rome (Chair, Renaissance and Early Modern Fellowship selection committee, 2004)