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Graduate Program in History

Elizabeth S. Cohen

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Degrees: Ph. D., 1978 University of Toronto
M. A., 1969, Harvard University
B. A., 1967, Harvard University
 
Current Position: Associate Professor of History
Graduate Programs in History, Humanities and Women's Studies
 
Recent Publications:

Daily Life in Renaissance Italy. With Thomas V. Cohen. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

“What’s in a Name? Artemisia Gentileschi and the Politics of Reputation,” in Artemisia Gentileschi: Taking Stock, ed. Judith Mann, 121-30. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005.

"Evolving the History of Women in Early Modern Italy: Subordination and Agency," in Spain in Italy: Politics, Society and Religion 1500-1700, ed. Thomas Dandelet and John Marino, 325-54. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2007.

"Miscarriages of Apothecary Justice: Un-separate Spaces for Work and Family in Early Modern Rome," Renaissance Studies 21:4 (2007), 480-504.

"Back Talk: Two Prostitutes' Voices from Rome c. 1600," Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2 (2007), 95-126.

"To Pray, To Work, To Hear, To Speak: Women in Roman Streets, c. 1600," Journal of Early Modern History 12 (2008)

"The Early Accademia di San Luca and Artists in Rome: A Historian's Observations" in The Accademia di San Luca in Rome: c. 1590-1635, ed. P. Lukehart. Washington, D.C.: Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, (forthcoming 2008).



Papers / Lectures:

“Not Enough Women in Rome.” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Toronto. October 2004.

"Where's the 'Big, Fat Woman' with the Modenese Accent? A Criminal Judge Prosecutes His Thieving Servant," Renaissance Society of America. Miami, FL. March 2007.

"Old Enemies and New Friends: Women Improvising Community in Early Modern Rome," Renaissance Society of America. Chicago, April 2008.

"Interrogating Women's Agency: Voice, Choice, and Power in the Premodern World." Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, June 2008.


Courses taught recently: History 3233 "Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe"
History 4270 "Concepts and Practices of Love in the West"
History 5150 [Graduate level] "Cultural History of Europe, 1500-1800"

 
Research Interests: Women in early modern Europe, especially in Rome, Italy; social and cultural history; sexuality and prostitution
 
Awards/Grants:    

Faculty of Arts Fellowship, York University (2002-2003)
York-Massey Fellowship, Massey College (2002-2003)