Assistant Professor of History
Northwestern University Ph.D., 1999

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Research Interests:

Early modern Europe

Selected Works:

"Inventing Nature: Forests, Forestry and State Power in Renaissance Venice." The Journal of Modern History, 72 (2000): 861-89. (Winner of the American Society for Environmental History's Alice Hamilton Prize)

"Politics, Perception, and the Meaning of Landscape in Late Medieval Venice: Marco Cornaro's 1442 Inspection of Firewood Supplies." In Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe, edited by John Howe and Michael Wolfe, 70-88. Gainesville: The University Press of Florida , 2002.

"Tools for the Development of the European Economy." In A Companion to the History of the Renaissance World, edited by Guido Ruggiero, 259-78. London : Blackwell, 2002.

"Friend or Flood - The Dilemmas of Flood Control in Early Modern Venice ." In The Nature of Cities: New Approaches to Urban Environmental History, edited by Andrew Isenberg. Rochester , NY : Rochester University Press, 2005.  

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