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Elizabeth Horodowich

 

Elizabeth Horodowich

 

Contact Info:

lizh@nmsu.edu

Breland 246

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Education:

B.A., Oberlin College, 1992

Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 2000

 

Research and Teaching Interests:

Early Modern Europe and Italy, Travel Literature and the Age of Encounters, History of Cartography, History of Food

Professor Horodowich teaches and researches early modern global history with a focus on sixteenth-century Italy and Venice. She is the author of five books, and has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from a variety of institutions, including The American Historical Association, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Newberry Library, The Renaissance Society of America, and Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti. In 2022, she was awarded the S.P. Manasse and Margaret Manasse Career Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the NMSU College of Arts and Sciences, and in 2023, was the recipient of the Westhafer Award, awarded biannually as the highest award for excellence in research across the entire NMSU campus.

Listen to Professor Horodowich’s keynote lecture on the Venetian Discovery of the New World, broadcast on Australia’s Radio National  here.

Explore the interactive digital humanities project Amerasia: An Inquiry into Early Modern Imaginative Geography here.

Listen to an overview of The Venetian Discovery of America on the New Books Network podcast here.

Learn more about Venice from the BBC History Extra Podcast series, History’s Greatest CitiesVenice, on Spotify, here.

 

Selected Publications:

Horod The-New-World-in-Early-Modern-Italy-EH-208x300 A-Brief-History-of-Venice-Horodowich-194x300 Language-and-Statecraft-in-Early-Modern-Venice-Horodowich-197x300 Amerasia

 

Courses:

History 1130G: Global History I

History 1150G: Western Civilization I

History 308v: The History of Food

History 333: Europe in the Renaissance

History 334/Art 444: Art and Life in Renaissance Italy

History 379v: The History of Italy

History 596: Graduate Research Seminar

History 598: The Craft of History