Tara Nummedal

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Tara Nummedal
SpouseSeth Rockman
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2009)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineEuropean history
Sub-disciplineHistory of science
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Tara E. Nummedal is a professor of history and Italian studies at Brown University, where she holds the John Nickoll Provost’s Professorship in History.[1] Nummedal is known for her works on Anna Maria Zieglerin and the history of alchemy and natural science in early modern Europe.[2][3]

Biography[edit]

Nummedal is originally from Seal Beach, California,[2] and is a 1992 graduate of Pomona College. After earning a master's degree at the University of California, Davis in 1996, she completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2001.[2][4]

She joined the Brown University faculty in 2002.[1] Her husband, Seth Rockman, is also a historian at Brown University.[5]

Publications[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2007)[6]
  • Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)[7]
  • John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in 19th-Century Natural History Illustration (with Janice Neri and John V. Calhoun, University of Alabama Press, 2019).[8]

Editor[edit]

With Donna Bilak, she is also the editor of a critical edition of Atalanta Fugiens by Michael Maier, Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens with Scholarly Commentary (University of Virginia Press, 2020).

Recognition[edit]

Nummedal was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Tara E. Nummedal", Department of History: People, Brown University, retrieved 2021-04-01
  2. ^ a b c d "Tara Nummedal", All Fellows, Guggenheim Foundation, retrieved 2021-04-01
  3. ^ Wilford, John Noble (August 1, 2006), "Transforming the Alchemists: Some historians are rethinking the role of trial-and-error alchemy in the development of chemistry as a science", The New York Times
  4. ^ "Tara E Nummedal: Professor of History, Professor of Italian Studies", Vivo, Brown University, retrieved 2021-04-01
  5. ^ Coe, Alexis (January 17, 2013), "Being Married Helps Professors Get Ahead, but Only If They're Male: A new study of history professors shows that married men get promoted faster than their single colleagues, while the opposite is true for women", The Atlantic
  6. ^ Reviews of Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire:
  7. ^ Reviews of Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood:
  8. ^ Review of John Abbot and William Swainson:

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