Holly S. Hurlburt

Department of History, Mailcode 4519

Southern Illinois University

Carbondale, IL 62901

(618) 453-4391/(618) 457-1953 (h)/hurlburt@siu.edu

Education

Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

            Ph.D. in Early Modern European History, August, 2000

            M.A. in early modern European History, August, 1995

                                   

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

B.A. with honors in History, minor in Art History, May, 1993

 

Fields of Interest

Medieval, Early Modern Italy; Women’s and Gender History; Social and Cultural History

 

Publications

The Dogaressa of Venice, 1200-1500: Wife and Icon. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

 

Review Essay, “A Renaissance for Renaissance Women?” Journal of Women’s History

19: (2007), 193-201.

 

“Women, Gender and Rulership in Italy,” History Compass 4:3 (2006), 528-535.

 

 “Individual Fame and Family Honor: The Tomb of Dogaressa Agnese da Mosto Venier,”in

Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe, ed. Allison Levy.    

Ashgate Publishing, 2003, 129-44.

                           

“Public Exposure?  Consorts and Ritual in Medieval Europe: The Example of the

Entrance of the Dogaresse of Venice,” in Medieval Women and Power Revisited:

 Challenging the Master Narrative, eds. Mary Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski.

Cornell University Press, 2003, 174-89.

 

Caterina Corner,” and Dogaresse,” in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe:

 An Encyclopedia. Routledge Press, 2006.

 

 “Virgin or Vixen? Considering Models of Female Autonomy in Early Modern 

  Europe.” Workshop overview in Structures and Subjectivities: Attending to Early   

  Modern Women, edited by Joan Hartman and Adele Seeff. Newark: University of 

 Delaware Press, 2006.

 

Review of James Shaw, The Justice of Venice in American Historical Review 112: (2007), pp. 615-16. .

 

Review of Rosalynn Voaden and Diane Wolfthal, eds, Framing the Family: Narrative and

Representation in Medieval and Early Modern Periods in Renaissance Quarterly 49 (2006): 570-71.

 

Review of Mary Spongberg, Women’s Writing since the Renaissance in

H-Net Women (May, 2004).

 

Review of Gigliola Frangito, ed., Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy

in Sixteenth Century Journal 34 (Spring, 2003): 188-190.

 

Review of Alan Stahl, Zecca: The Mint of Venice in Technology and Culture 43

(July, 2002): 587-9.

 

Grants and Awards    

 

I Tatti/Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies Research Fellowship. 2007-08.

 

American Council of Learned Societies Sabbatical Fellowship, 2007-2008 (declined).

 

Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women, The Newberry Library, 2008 (declined).

 

Bernadotte A. Schmitt Grant for Research in European History, American Historical Association. May, 2006.

 

Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity Award, Department of Women’s Studies and

University Women’s Professional Advancement, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. November, 2004.

 

            Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant for Independent Research in Venice

 and the Veneto. Summer, 2004.

 

Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Department of History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Spring, 2003.

 

Faculty Research Grant, Office of Research and Development Assistance,

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Spring, 2002.

 

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Doctoral Prize,

Graduate School, Syracuse University.  Spring, 2001.

 

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant for Independent Research in Venice and the Veneto.

Summer, 2001.

 

Hotchkiss Prize for Outstanding Achievement in History by a Graduate

Student, Department of History, Syracuse University.  Spring, 2000.

 

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Syracuse University Graduate School. 

Spring, 1999.

 

Dobie-Kampel Grant for Dissertation Research in History,

Department of History, Syracuse University.  1997-98.

 

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant for Independent Research in Venice

 and the Veneto.  1997-98 (declined).

 

Papers and Presentations

“(Re) Burying and (Re) Membering the Queen: Caterina Corner’s Tomb in San Salvatore, Venice.” Paper to be presented at the Renaissance Society of America Meeting, Miami, Florida. March, 2007.

 

“Early Modern Masculinities.” Co-organizer of concurrent sessions, Renaissance Society of America Meeting, Miami, Florida. March, 2007.

 

“Bodies that Build a Bridge: Brides, Queens and the Venetian Empire.”  Paper presented at the Renaissance Society of America meeting, San Francisco, California. March, 2006.          

           

Instrument of Power: Gender and Authority in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean.” Paper presented at the Illinois Medieval Society annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February, 2006.

 

Where Women Did Not Reign: Female Ruler Imagery in Republican Venice.” Paper presented at the Forty-Fifth International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan.  May, 2005.

 

Davide e la Dogaressa: Women and Gender Compared in Renaissance Venice and Florence.”  Paper presented at the Renaissance Society of America Meeting, Cambridge, UK. April 2005.

 

“Are Comparisons Odious? Re-examining Renaissance Florence and Venice.” 

Co-organizer of concurrent sessions, Renaissance Society of American Meeting,

Cambridge, UK. April 2005.

 

“The Lion and the Lady: The Ducal Consort in the Church of San Marco, Venice.” Paper  presented at the Forty-Forth Annual International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan.  Spring, 2004.

 

“Good (and Not So Good) Italian Women.”  Session organized for Forty-Fourth Annual International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan.  Spring, 2004.

 

“Virgin or Vixen? Considering Models of Female Autonomy in Early Modern Europe.” Discussion panel organizer and participant at Attending to Early Modern Women Conference, College Park, Maryland.  Fall, 2003.

 

“As Good as Her Word: The Dogaresse of Venice in the Ducal Oath of Office.” Paper presented at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Fall, 2003.

 

“Daughter, Wife, Queen, Widow, Patron: Historiography of Caterina Corner.” Paper presented at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting, Toronto, Canada. Spring, 2003.

 

“Artifice and Authenticity: The Ambiguities of Early Modern Venice.” Folger Institute Seminar participant, The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, March, 2003.

 

“An Information Superhighway? Elite Women as Political Conduits." Paper presented at Sixteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas.  Fall, 2002.

 

“’Uppity Women’ and ‘Superb Portraits of Womanhood’: The Historiography of the Dogaresse of Venice.” Paper presented at the Forty-Second Annual International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Spring, 2002.

 

“La Serenissima Straniera? Foreign Dogaresse and the Construction of Civic Identity.”  Paper presented and panel on Veneziani/Stranieri organized for Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona. Spring, 2002.

 

“Public Exposure?  Consorts and Ritual in Late Medieval Europe.” Paper presented at Medieval Women and Power Revisited: Challenging the Master Narrative, Fordham University, New York. Spring, 2001.

 

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.  Fall, 2000-present

History 101A – World Civilizations to 1500 (core curriculum)

History 201 – Art and Ideas in the Western World (core curriculum)

History 205 A/B – Western Civilizations, Ancient World to the Present

History 207A – World Civilizations to 1500 (majors)

History 312 – History of Italy

History 320 – Early Modern Europe

History/Women’s Studies 324 – Women in Western Society, 1700-present

History 392 – Historical Research and Writing

History/Women’s Studies 406 – Women, Family, Gender and Sexuality in

Pre-Modern Europe

History 417 – Ritual and Revolt in Pre-Modern Europe

History 418 - Renaissance

History 499 – Senior Research Seminar - Family, Gender, Sexuality in Europe

and America, 1500-1850

History 522/3Graduate Colloquium/Seminar-Europe in the World, 1500-1800

 

 

Instructor, Syracuse University.  Summer, 2000.

History 112Western Civilization from Napoleon to the Present

 

Instructor, State University of New York, Cortland, New York. Fall, 1999-Spring, 2000.

History 111Western Civilization from 1715 to the present

 

Instructor, Syracuse University Program of Continuing Education.  Spring, 1999.

History 355The Italian Renaissance

 

Instructor, Syracuse University Division of International Programs Abroad. Summer, 1997-1999.

Humanities 501Humanism and the Arts in Renaissance Italy

 

Service

Member of Executive Committee, Renaissance Consortium, the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.  October, 2006-June, 2007.

 

Co-Editor, Book Reviews, H-Women.  July, 2006-present.

 

Member, Search Committee for Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Fall, 2006-present

 

Member, Search Committees for Interim Dean, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Summer, 2006.

 

Chair, College of Liberal Arts Council, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. May, 2006-May, 2007.

 

Vice-Chair, College of Liberal Arts Council, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. May, 2005-May, 2006

           

Co-coordinator, “CoLA Cares” College of Liberal Arts Initiatives to Benefit Victims of Hurricane Katrina, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, August-September, 2005.

 

Member, Women’s History Month Planning Committee, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.  October, 2004-March 2006.

 

Member, Steering Committee, European Studies Forum, Southern Illinois University,Carbondale. August, 2002-August, 2006.

 

Member, Planning Committee, Illinois Medievalists Association Annual Meeting, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, August, 2004 - February, 2005.

 

Coordinator, Teaching Assistant/Grading Assistant Training Program, Department of  History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. 2003-2004.

 

Member, History Department Teaching and Curriculum, Graduate Studies Committees. August 2004-May, 2007.

 

Member, History Department Policy Committee, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.  August 2003-August, 2004.

 

Advisor, Sigma Kappa branch of Phi Alpha Theta, history honor society,

Department of  History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. August, 2001-May, 2005.

 

Member, Southern Illinois University Symphony.  February, 2002-May, 2006.

 

Affiliations

 

American Historical Association, Society for Italian Historical Studies, Renaissance Society of America, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.

 

Languages

                                   

Italian, Latin, French