Elizabeth Cohen

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. "Evolving the History of Women in Early Modern Italy: Subordination and Agency," in Spain in Italy: Politics, Society and Religion 1500-1700, ed. T. Dandelet and J. Marino, 325-54. Leiden, 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), 289-311 "The Early Accademia di San Luca and Artists in Rome: A Historian's Observations" in The Accademia Seminars: The Accademia di San Luca in Rome: c. 1590-1635, ed. P. Lukehart, 325-45. Washington, D.C.: 2009.
Papers / Lectures:	"Ordinary Women on Their Own: Female Households in the "Male" City, Rome c. 1600," Society for Italian Historical Studies, American Historical Association. New York. January 2009 "Where's Madalena, the Big Woman from Modena? History from Roman Trials (1603)." With Thomas Cohen. Graduate program keynote lecture, Department of History, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON, January 2009. "Negotiating Women's Chastity in China and Italy." With Janet Theiss. Attending to Early Modern Women, eigth international conference, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, November 2009. "La Romana agonistes: Broomsticks and Fighting Words c. 1600." International conference on 'Early Modern Rome, ca. 1341-1667.' University of California, Rome, Italy. May 2010 "When Ruliness Was Not a Choice: Subaltern Women Negotiating Norms in Rome c. 1600." International Society for Cultural History. Turku, Finland, May 2010
Courses taught recently:	History 3233 "Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" History 4270 "Self and Identities in Early Modern Europe" History 5051 [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)