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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreBarnita Bagchi teaches and researches comparative literature at Utrecht University. She has published widely on women’s writing, the cultural history of women’s education, and utopian studies, with South Asia and Western Europe as nodes. She is a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and a member of the executive board of the Stichting Praemium Erasmianum, the Netherlands.Eric Brandom is a James Carey research fellow in the history department at Kansas State University. He is coauthor with Tommaso Giordani of a translation and critical edition of Georges Sorel’s “Study on Vico” (Brill, 2020) and is at work on a manuscript “Autonomy and Violence: Georges Sorel and the Problem of Liberalism.”Caterina Cardamone is an independent scholar who worked as lecturer at Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (2011–2016) and at the Universität Trier (2004–8). Her research focuses on the reception of the classical tradition in Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century. She edited the volume Josef Frank: L’architettura religiosa di Leon Battista Alberti (Electa, 2018).Marcello Cattaneo is currently junior research fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and formerly Polonsky Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He works on the history of scholarship, especially in its interactions with literature and religion. He has a forthcoming monograph based on his doctoral dissertation on the theological and scholarly contexts of Jonathan Swift’s early satires.Lin Chalozin-Dovrat is an assistant professor at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. Her work focuses on intersections of language and science, and particularly on the disciplinarization of linguistics. Chalozin-Dovrat’s works have appeared in journals such as Perspectives on Science, History of Humanities, and L’Information Grammaticale and in the book series DAPSAC (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture).Hilde De Weerdt is professor of Chinese history at Leiden University. She is currently working on a global history of Chinese political advice literature. She has published three books on Chinese political culture and intellectual history. Two joint projects, a translation of The Essentials of Governance (Cambridge University Press) and a comparative history of European and Chinese political communication (Amsterdam University Press), are forthcoming in 2020.Florian Ebeling is a researcher at the Egyptological Institute of the University of Heidelberg. He is editor of Aegyptiaca: Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt and has published on the history of reception of ancient Egypt, including The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus (Cornell University Press, 2007) and Ägyptische Mysterien: Reisen durch die Unterwelt in Aufklärung und Romantik (Beck, 2011, with Jan Assmann).Jaś Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College Oxford and visiting professor of art and religion in the University of Chicago. He works on the history of art and archaeology in the Mediterranean and the Near East as well as its receptions, notably its historiographies. He is currently external scientific member of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz.Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi has been living in Florence since 1996, where she teaches American overseas students Renaissance philosophy and Italian Jewish history. She has published articles on humanist academies, Neapolitan humanism, converts to Catholicism during the Counter-Reformation, and pilgrimage itineraries to the Holy Land. Her book The Accademia Pontaniana: A Model of a Humanist Network, was published in 2016 by Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History.Alexander Geurds holds positions as associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, and at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. In Oxford he is also a fellow at Wolfson College. His work centers on Middle and South American archaeology, with specific interests in history of archaeological inquiry, the development of museum collections, and the creation of heritage narratives. He is founding editor of the book series The Early Americas: History and Culture (Brill).Niccolò Guicciardini is full professor in history of science at the State University of Milan. He holds degrees in physics (specializing in particle physics) and philosophy (specializing in history of logic). His research has focused on Newton’s mathematics and Principia and their reception in the eighteenth century. His book Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy was published in 2018 (Reaktion Books).Luuk Huitink is a researcher at Leiden University, specializing in ancient Greek linguistics, narratology, and historiography. Previously he worked at the University of Oxford and the Universität Heidelberg. He is one of the authors of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and a commentary on Xenophon’s Anabasis III (Cambridge University Press, 2019), as well as one of the editors of Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece (Oxford University Press, 2020).Jiang Chenxin is a PhD candidate in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, working on the translation of philosophical canons between Europe and China in the early twentieth century. She is also the translator of works by authors such as Ji Xianlin (The Cowshed [New York Review Books, 2016]) and Zsuzsanna Gahse (Volatile Texts [Dalkey Archive, 2017]).Lesley Johnson is an emeritus professor at the University of Technology Sydney and Griffith University. Her books include The Unseen Voice: A Cultural Study of Early Australian Radio (Routledge, 1988) and The Modern Girl: Girlhood and Growing Up (Allen & Unwin, 1993). She was the president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities from 2014 to 2017. She is a cultural studies scholar and is currently working on a history of the institutions of the humanities in Australia from 1945 to 2000.Giovanni Mazzaferro is an independent scholar focusing on the written sources of art history. He is founder and manager of the blog “Letteratura artistica: Cross-cultural Studies in Art History Sources,” which contains more than five hundred reviews on the topic. He published Le Belle Arti a Venezia nei manoscritti di Pietro e Giovanni Edwards (GoWare, 2015) and La donna che amava i colori: Mary P. Merrifield: lettere dall’Italia (1845–1846) (Officina Libraria, 2018).Maria Cristina Misiti is director of the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, based in Rome. From 1996 to 2007, she was researcher in bibliography and librarianship at the Faculty of Conservation of Cultural Heritage at Tuscia University in Viterbo. Currently she lectures on history of the printed book at the Istituto Centrale per la Patologia del libro. She has authored numerous publications on the history of books, printers and libraries, book illustration, and book collecting.Josephine Musil-Gutsch is a PhD candidate in history of science at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In her PhD thesis, she investigates collaborations between sciences and humanities around 1900 and has recently published an article on the topic. In 2018, she was awarded the graduate student paper award by the Society for the History of Humanities. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Amsterdam and at University of California, Berkeley.Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen is associate professor of modern history at the Saxo Institute, Copenhagen University. He has published widely on early modern Danish political culture and biography and has recently gravitated toward historiography.Hampus Östh Gustafsson is a doctoral student at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University and has previously studied at University of Oxford and University of Manchester. His dissertation project concerns the legitimacy of the humanities in Swedish politics of knowledge during the twentieth century. His publications include “The Discursive Marginalization of the Humanities: Debates on the ‘Humanist Problem’ in the Early 1960s Swedish Welfare State” (History of Humanities 3, no. 2 [2018]).Cynthia M. Pyle is cochair of the Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance (1945), with training and professional experience in biology before her move to Renaissance studies. She has published on, among others, proto-operas (Milan and Lombardy in the Renaissance [La Fenice, 1997]), Renaissance natural history (Codices e Vaticanis Selecti LX [Belser, 1984]), and book history (introduction and edition of M.D. Feld, Printing and Humanism in Renaissance Italy [Roma nel Rinascimento, 2015]).Caroline Anjali Ritchie is a doctoral researcher at Tate Britain (London) and the University of York. She holds a BA from the University of Oxford and an MA from the Warburg Institute. Her research relates to early modern art theory and the intersections between cartography and the visual arts from the early modern period through to the eighteenth century.Ingrid Rowland is based in Rome as professor in the Department of History and the School of Architecture of the University of Notre Dame. Books include Giordano Bruno, Philosopher/Heretic (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008), Giordano Bruno On the Heroic Frenzies (University of Toronto Press, 2014), From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town (Harvard University Press, 2014), The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art (with Noah Charney; Norton, 2017), and The Divine Spark of Syracuse (University Press of New England, 2019).Daniel Sherer teaches the history and theory of architecture at Princeton School of Architecture. He has published widely in scholarly and critical journals, including Artforum, AA Files, Domus, Perspecta, Zodiac, Log, Journal of Architecture, Mousse, and Potlatch. In 2018 he curated the exhibition “Aldo Rossi: The Architecture and Art of the Analogous City” at Princeton School of Architecture. His book The Historical Sense of Modern Architecture will be published by MIT Press in the series Writing Architecture, edited by Cynthia Davidson.Floris Solleveld is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), based in the Department of History and Center for the Historiography of Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His current research is about ethnolinguistics in the long nineteenth century. A monograph based on his dissertation, a study of transformations in the humanities in Europe, 1750–1850, is in preparation.Carlos Spoerhase teaches German literature and intellectual history at Bielefeld University. He is a member of the editorial staff of Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte and a coeditor of Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte. His monograph Das Format der Literatur: Praktiken materieller Textualität zwischen 1740 und 1830 was published in 2018 (Wallstein).Anna Tummers is university lecturer in early modern art history and theory at Leiden University and research associate of the Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Art, and Science. Together with Robert G. Erdmann, she heads the Dutch Research Council project “21st Century Connoisseurship: Developing Smart Tools for the Analysis of Seventeenth-Century Paintings” (2018–21). She is a specialist in early modern art and culture and has edited and (co)authored twelve books.Toon Van Hal studied classics, Oriental languages, and history in Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Antwerp. He teaches Ancient Greek linguistics at the University of Leuven. His research concentrates on the history of ideas on languages throughout the early modern period as well as on Ancient Greek corpus linguistics. He supervised the project “Scholarly Forgetting in the History of the Humanities” (2016–18), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.Wang Hui is a distinguished professor of arts, humanities, and social sciences at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the winner of several prizes, including the 2013 Luca Pacioli Prize and the 2018 Anneliese Maier Research Award. His publications include China’s New Order (Harvard University Press, 2003), The Politics of Imagining Asia (Harvard University Press, 2010), and China from Empire to Nation-State (Harvard University Press, 2015), China’s Twentieth Century (Verso, 2016), and the four-volume The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (SDX Joint Publishing, 2004).Thijs Weststeijn is full professor of art history at Utrecht University. He has published widely on early modern art theory, including monographs about Samuel van Hoogstraten and Franciscus Junius. In 2020 he edited the volume Foreign Devils and Philosophers: Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1580–1800 (Brill). Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by History of Humanities Volume 5, Number 2Fall 2020 Sponsored by the Society for the History of the Humanities Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/710305 Views: 139 © Society for the History of the Humanities. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.