Margaret L. King      

Fall 2008 --

January intersession 2009 --

Margaret King studies and teaches in the fields of the Italian Renaissance, the classical tradition; the social and cultural history of early modern Europe; women and learning 1300-1800; and the history of childhood from antiquity to the present. 

Her publications include Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance (Princeton University Press, 1986); Women of the Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 1991);  The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello (University of Chicago Press, 1994); the Complete Writings of Isotta Nogarola (ed. and trans. with Diana Robin; University of Chicago Press, 2004); Humanism, Venice, and Women: Essays on the Italian Renaissance (Variorum Collected Studies Series; Hampshire UK: Ashgate, 2005); and the single-authored textbooks The Renaissance in Europe (Laurence King Ltd./McGraw Hill, 2004) and  Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History (3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 2005).  In addition, she has published  25 articles and essays, and 30 reviews, review essays, and short articles.

With Albert Rabil, Jr., she is the co-editor of the series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (University of Chicago Press), of which 47 titles have been issued, heading towards a total of 75.  The series will then continue with the University of Toronto's Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, which will publish the remaining titles in both conventional and electronic formats. 

King's current research is on mothers and sons in history. 

She has received Woodrow Wilson, Danforth, ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies), NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities), American Philosophical Society, and Gladys Krieble Delmas fellowships; the Brooklyn College Tow (2000-2002) and Broeklundian (2006-2001) Professorships; two Marraro prizes (ACHA 1986, AHA 1996) and the Scaglione prize for translation (MLA 2006), among other honors.

Margaret King received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1967 and her PhD from Stanford University in 1972.  She has taught at Brooklyn College since 1972; in the history department since 1980; and at the Graduate Center since 1987.

 

Last update 7/3/08