The Group for Early Modern Studies

Membership	Graduate Certificate	Lecture Series	Awards & Travel Grants	Research & Affiliations

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
or the GEMS Graduate Assistant at gemsasst@gmail.com.

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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

Luise Betterton

Walter Brem

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

Jerry Dickey, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Head of the Theatre Studies Division
theatre history, Renaissance drama and theatre, modern U.S. theatre

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

William H. Epstein, Professor of English
eighteenth-century British literature, the novel, biography, literary theory, professional practice

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

Adel Gamal, Professor of Near Eastern Studies

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

Daniel Jones, Graduate Student in History (Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies)

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

Xiaoyi Liu, Graduate Student in East Asian Studies

Tsianina Lomawaima, Professor of American Indian Studies
history and philosophy of native societies and cultures, history of Indian education

Ute Lotz-Heumann, History

Max Mangriviti, Graduate Student in History

Amy Martin, Graduate Student in English

Ignacio Martinez, Graduate Student in History
colonial Mexico, Spanish borderlands, intellectual history

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

Rebecca Mueller, Graduate Student in History (Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies)

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

Noel Pinnington, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature
medieval Japanese literary and performance theory; early Japanese writing and narrative

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

Miranda Spieler, Assistant Professor of French History
law and violence, slavery and emancipation, Atlantic history, French Revolution

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

James Wermers, Graduate Student in English, GEMS Certificate Student, GEMS Graduate Assistant 2009-2010
early modern literature and culture, history of philosophy

Cynthia White, Associate Professor of Classics
Classical, Late Antique, and Medieval Latin literature

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

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