The Group for Early Modern Studies
Membership
GEMS is open to any University
of Arizona graduate student, faculty member, librarian, or curator
with an interest in the early modern period (1400-1800), as well as members
of the Tucson community.
To join GEMS, contact Kari Boyd McBride, Director of GEMS, at kari@email.arizona.edu.
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Fabian Alfie,
Associate Professor of Italian
Italian language, literature, culture,
and folklore, especially Dante and Boccaccio
Damian Baca,
Assistant Professor of English
Mesoamerica and early Colonial Mexico
Victor R. Baker,
Regents Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources, Geosciences, and Planetary
Sciences
history and philosophy of earth science
Carl Berkhout, Associate Professor
of English
Old English, paleography, bibliography
Michael M. Brescia, Assistant
Curator of Ethnohistory and Assistant Professor of History, Arizona State Museum
Colonial Mexico, Spanish and Mexican
civil law of property, Tridentine Catholicism, comparative North America, paleography
and translation
Michael Brewer, Reference
Librarian, Main Library
Slavic Studies, German Studies, media
arts
John Brobeck,
Associate Professor of Music
music and musical patronage in the
15th- & 16th-centuries
Meg
Lota Brown, Professor of English
16th- & 17th-century British literature
David Buchalter, Graduate Student
in English, GEMS Certificate Student
Jews and judaism in early modern English
literature
Gaston Celaya Bustamante, Graduate Student in Spanish
Judith Caballero, Graduate Student in Spanish
Aaron Campbell, Graduate Student in History
Daniel
Cooper Alarcón, Associate Professor of English
Chicano/a literature, Mexicanness in
English-language literature, travel literature
Albrecht Classen,
Professor in German Studies
late-medieval and early modern German
literature, women's literature, popular literature, comparative literature
Daniel Crumbo, Graduate Student in English
Pia
Cuneo, Associate Professor of Art History
women in the Renaissance, Renaissance
art theory, social and political functions of art
Roger Dahood, Associate Professor of English
Christopher Dalton, Graduate
Student in East Asian Studies, GEMS Certificate Student
late Imperial and early modern Chinese
history and culture
Linda
Darling, Associate Professor of History
history of the Ottoman empire, Islam
Pamela Decker,
Professor of Music
organ and harpsichord performance,
music theory, and composition
Ruth
Dickstein
history, gender, and ethnic resources
Kyle DiRoberto, Graduate Student
in English
16th- and 17th-century British literature,
ethnography, travel writing
Tom Donlan, Graduate Student
in History
Early Modern France, Religious Wars, Francois de Sales, Visitation Nuns
Adam Duker, Graduate Student in
History (Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies)
Protestant Reformation, Jean Calvin
and Calvinism, Calvinist missionaries, Frech religious wars, cannibalism
Allison Dushane, Assistant Professor of
English
British and German Romanticism, eighteenth-century
literature and philosophy, history of biology, ethics, medieval literature and
medievalism
Richard
Eaton, Professor of History
early modern cultural history of South
Asia, especially India and Islam; world history
Aileen Astorga Feng,
Assistant Professor of Practice, Italian
fourteenth- through sixteenth-century Italian literature and culture, literature and politics, Italian lyric, especially Petrarch, neo-Latin humanism, Petrarchism in Italy and France, Querelle des Femmes
Martha Few, Associate Professor
of History
colonial Guatemala and Mexico, Mesoamerican
ethnohistory, colonial medicine, gender
Robert Fiore,
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Golden Age Spanish literature, picaresque
novel
Peter Foley, Associate Professor
of Classics, Religious Studies
18th-century German philosophy, literature,
and theology, history of philosophy
Matthew Furlong, Graduate Student
in History
Colonial Latin America; early modern
world history, particularly slavery
Alison
Futrell, Associate Professor of History
ancient Rome, representations of antiquity
in later Western tradition, power and gender, pop culture
Carlos Gallego,
Assistant Professor of English
comparative ethnic and cultural studies, critical theory and continental philosophy, dialectic of modernity, theories of subjectivity and subject formation
Michael B. Gill, Assistant
Professor of Philosophy
early modern philosophy, history of
ethics, meta-ethics, biomedical ethics
Kevin
Gosner, Associate Professor of History
ethnic relations and rural societies
in colonial Latin America, Maya ethnohistory
David Graizbord,
Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies
early modern Jewish history, particularly
Conversos and Sephardim
Nicole
M. Guidotti-Hernandez, Assistant Professor in Women's Studies
US Third World feminism, critical race
theory, Chicana/o, Latina/o cultural studies
Cyndi Headley,
Graduate Student in English, GEMS Certificate Student, GEMS Graduate Assistant
2007-2008
17th-century and 18th-century literature,
with a focus on the body and disability
Carmen Ortiz Henley, Graduate Student
in English, GEMS Certificate Student
medieval and 16th- and 17th-century British literature, gender, and English
Catholics and Recusants
Beth Henson, Graduate Student in History
Jason Herman, Graduate Student
in English
medieval literature, Chaucer, medieval
and early modern epistemology
Alex Hidalgo, Graduate Student
in History
Colonial Latin America, ethnohistory,
religion
Laura
Hollengreen, Associate Professor of Architecture and Interim Director of the School of Architecture
Gothic art and architecture, medieval biblical illustration, urban space
Seth Holler, Graduate Student
in English
early modern English literature, the
Reformation
Chris Impey,
Distinguished Professor, Department of Astronomy
history and philosophy of astronomy, particularly cosmology
Benjamin H. Irvin, Assistant Professor
in History
early America and the American Revolution
Christina Jarvis,
Director, Musica Sonora
early music, early performance practice
Nicholas Johnson, Graduate Student
in English
emblem books, early modern constructions
of gender, Shakespeare
Leilani Johnson, DMA, GEMS Graduate Assistant
2005-2006
early music, especially 17th-century
German and Heinrich Schütz
Errol LeRoy King, Graduate Student in Spanish
Julie H. Kang, Graduate Student
in History(Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies), GEMS Certificate
Student
early modern France, Catholic Reformation,
gender
Susan
Karant-Nunn, Professor of History and Director of the Division for Late
Medieval and Reformation Studies
Renaissance and Reformation history,
gender, paleography
R. A. Kashanipour, Graduate Student in History
Frederick Kiefer, Professor
of English
Renaissance English drama and iconography,
Shakespeare
Mary Kovel, Graduate Student
in History (Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies), GEMS Certificate
Student, GEMS Research Assistant 2004-2005
early modern England, gender, religion
E. Philip Krider,
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences
history of science, lightning and atmospheric
electricity
Samantha Kuhn, Graduate Student in History (Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies)
Kristen Lawson,
Graduate Student in English, GEMS Certificate Student, GEMS Graduate Assistant
2006-2007
medieval and Renaissance English literature,
especially Edmund Spenser
Brigitta Lee, Assistant Professor
of East Asian Studies
traditional Chinese literature, especially
early medieval Chinese poetry and poetics; memory and formation of traditions
Lise Leibacher,
Professor of French
17th- and18th-century French literature,
utopias, gender studies, sexuality
Patricia Leppla, Graduate Student in Library Science
Christina K. Lindeman, Research
Associate, Museum of Art
18th-century European art, social and
cultural functions of art, women patrons and collectors
Tsianina Lomawaima,
Professor of American Indian Studies
history and philosophy of native societies
and cultures, history of Indian education
Max Mangriviti, Graduate Student in History
Amy Martin, Graduate Student in English
Abigail Martinez-Sotelo, Graduate Student in Spanish
Ken McAllister, Associate Professor
of Rhetoric
early modern rhetorics, history of magic, history of technology, new media studies
Kari Boyd McBride, Assistant
Professor of Women's Studies, Director of GEMS
early modern English literature and
culture; theory and methodology
Reginald McGinnis,
Associate Professor of French
18th- and19th-century French literature,
religion, sexuality
Peter Medine,
Professor of English
Renaissance English literature
Todd Meinke, Graduate Student in History
Thomas Miller, Professor in the Rhetoric,
Composition, and the Teaching of English Program, English Department
Studies of moral philosophy, rhetoric, and literature in eighteenth-century British and American higher education
Paul Milliman, Assistant Professor
of History
medieval and early modern Europe, especially
east-central Europe, Islam, games
Maribel Moreno, Graduate Student in Spanish
Lisa Munro, Graduate Student
in History
Indian identity and assimilation through
material culture in late colonial Guatemala (1750-1800)
Roger Myers, Librarian and Archivist, Special Collections
Annie
Nequette, Lecturer in Architecture
history and theory of architecture,
architecture and society, design
Jill Newby, Associate Librarian,
Main Library
English literature and language, library
research instruction
Amy Newhouse, Graduate Student in History (Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies)
Lee Olsen,
Graduate Student in English, GEMS Certificate Student
16th- and 17th-century British literature, the history of early modern obstetrics, gynecology, and teratology
David Orvis, Assistant Professor of English at Appalachian State University, GEMS Certificate Graduate, GEMS Graduate Assistant 2003-2004
David Owen, Associate
Professor of Philosophy
17th- and 18th-century philosophy,
especially Descartes, Locke, and Hume
Ryan Paul, Graduate
Student in English, GEMS Certificate Student, GEMS Graduate Assistant 2008-2009
16th- and 17th-century English literature
and culture
Richard Poss, Associate Professor
of Astronomy
history of astronomy, astronomy and
the arts
Jennifer Powlette, Graduate Student in English
José
Promis, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
colonial Chilean literature
Vikas Rathee,
Graduate Student in History
history of India in the 16th - 19th-centuries
Jessica Reuther, Graduate Student in History
Verónica
Reyes, Reference Librarian, Main Library and Special Collections
French and Italian literature resources
David Robinson,
Assistant Professor of English
17th- and 18th-century British &
French literature & culture, history of sexuality, gender studies, the novel,
prosody
Joaquin Ruiz, Dean, College of Sciences; Professor of Geosciences
Jean Smart, Graduate
Student in Art History
northern Renaissance and Reformation
art and politics
Stephen Sweat, Graduate Student
in English
17th- and 18th-century British Literature
Laura
Tabili, Associate Professor of History
migration, race, gender, and labor
Chia-Lin Pao Tao, Professor of East Asian Studies
Jennalyn Tellman, Associate
Librarian
Librarian for History
Susan Thomas, Graduate Student in English
Audrey Tinkham, Graduate
Student in English, GEMS Certificate Student, GEMS Graduate Assistant 2004-2005
17th- and 18th-century British literature,
gender and property
Castorila Unda Toth, Adjunct Instructor
of Spanish
food history, Latin American food history, literature and food, food and politics
John Ulreich,
Professor of English
Renaissance English prose and poetry,
Biblical studies
Beth Weinstein, Assistant Professor in Architecture
Wendy S. Weise, Assistant Professorof
English, University of Arizona, South Campus
16th- and 17th-century British women writers, violence and gender, spatial studies
Jim Wermers, Graduate Student
in English, GEMS Certificate Student
early modern literature, history of
philosophy
Stacie Widdifield,
Professor of Art History
gender and nationalism in pre-Hispanic,
colonial, and modern Mexican art
Thomas Willard,
Associate Professor of English
medieval and Renaissance rhetoric
Amy Williamsen,
Associate Professor in Spanish and Portuguese, GEMS Steering Committee
early modern Spanish literature, Cervantes,
the comedia, women writers, literary theory
Paula Wolfe, Associate Librarian, Main Library
Paul Woodford, Graduate Student
in English, GEMS Certificate Student
medieval and early modern British literatures
and their contexts in European literature, history, and art
Jiang Wu, Assistant
Professor of East Asian Studies
17th-century Chinese Buddhism,Chinese
intellectual history, social history
Jason Yancey,
Graduate Student in Spanish
Spanish Golden Age theater
Elizabeth Chesney
Zegura, Associate Professor of French and Italian
literature and culture of French and
Italian Renaissance, gender and social class
Jessica Zeitler, Graduate Student in Spanish
Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman, Assistant
Professor of Anthropology, Assistant Curator of Zooarcheology, Arizona State
Museum
early colonial period, especially 17th-
through early 19th-century, Eurasian livestock and indigenous subsistence systems
and landscape, indigenus labor and European market economies
Lynda
Zwinger, Associate Professor of English
18th- and 19th-century English and
American novel, feminist literary theory, gender and sexuality