Recent and Upcoming Teaching:

• Summer Quarter 2019: Florence: Living with History Flagship course for a new study abroad program in Florence.
• Spring Quarter 2019:
  • Italian Renaissance: Dante, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings
• Winter Quarter 2019:
  • History of European Civilization I
  • Europe’s Intellectual Transformations Renaissance to Enlightenment
• Fall Quarter 2018:
  • Censorship, Information Control & Revolutions in Information Technology from the Printing Press to the Internet
• Spring Quarter 2018:
  • The Italian Renaissance
• Autumn Quarter 2017:
  • Censorship from the Inquisition to the Present
  • History of Skepticism
• Winter Quarter 2016:
  • European Civilization I (Core)
  •  Patronage and Culture in Renaissance Italy and Her Neighbors: the second half of my two-quarter graduate seminar sequence.
• Fall Quarter 2016:
  • Italian Renaissance (Tues/Thurs 12 to 1:20; open to undergraduate and graduate students including non-history-majors. The course catalog says “upper level undergrads only” but if you are a newer undergraduate and interested in the course, you would be welcome.),
  • Patronage and Culture in Renaissance Italy and Her Neighbors (Two-Quarter Graduate Research Seminar)
• Spring Quarter 2016: on leave.
• Winter Quarter 2015: on leave.
• Fall Quarter 2015: on leave.
• Spring Quarter 2015:
  • Italian Renaissance (undergraduate course; see above)
  • Renaissance Humanism (Tuesday 3 to 5:50; graduate course with hands-on rare books work, hosted in the rare books rooms of the library, open to undergraduates upon request)
• Winter Quarter 2014: on leave.
• Fall Quarter 2014: European Civilization 1 (Core)