Eric R. Dursteler
Eric R. Dursteler | |
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| Born | 1964 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, author |
| Known for | Author of Mediterranean and Venetian history |
| Spouse | Whitney Campbell Dursteler |
| Children | 3 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | MA, PhD |
| Alma mater | Brigham Young University Brown University |
Eric R. Dursteler (born 1964) is a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and chair of the BYU history department. He is a lecturer and seminar presenter, and has specialized in the history of early modern Italy, the history of the Mediterranean including the early modern Mediterranean, and the history of food. He has authored numerous scholarly books, journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics related to early modern Mediterranean and Venetian history.
Education and personal life
[edit]Dursteler was born in Logan, Utah in 1964. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served as a church missionary in the Italy Milan Mission from 1983 to 1985.[1]
Dursteler holds both a bachelor and MA degree from BYU, and an MA and PhD from Brown University. He completed his PhD in 2000; Anthony Molho was his dissertation advisor.[2]
He resides with his wife, Whitney Dursteler (Campbell), in Provo, UT, and has three adult children.[3]
Academic and professional career
[edit]Dursteler has been a faculty member of the BYU department of history since 1998,[2] and served as chair of the BYU history department from 2016 to 2019.[4] He has held a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and a Villa I Tatti fellowship from the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2006-2007). In 2020 he was awarded a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute. In 2022 he was a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
He is the editor for News on the Rialto, "an annual publication devoted to providing an informational point of reference for scholars working on all aspects of Venetian studies, including the political, economic, social, religious, artistic, architectural, musical and literary history of the city, its overseas empire, and its mainland territories."[5] He was also formerly the book review editor for the Journal of Early Modern History,[6] and serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Mediterranean Studies.[7] He is a member of the Founding Editorial Board for Oxford Bibliographies Renaissance and Reformation.[8]
Selected works
[edit]Dursteler has authored numerous books, book chapters, encyclopedic entries, articles and reviews, some of which include:
Books
[edit]- Dursteler, Eric R. (2006), Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9780801891052
- Dursteler, Eric R. (2011), Renegade Women: Gender, Identity and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9781421403489
- Dursteler, Eric R., editor (2013), A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797. Brill's Companions to European History, Volume 4, DOI: 10.1163/9789004252523
- Dursteler, Eric R.; O'Connell, Monique (2016), "The Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon". Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9781421419015
- James A. Toronto, Eric R. Dursteler and Michael W. Homer (2017), Mormon in the Piazza: History of the Latter-day Saints in Italy. Provo and Salt Lake City: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center in cooperation with Deseret Book. ISBN 978-1-9443-9410-3.
- Dursteler, Eric R., editor and translator (2018), In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Ambassadorial Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2018. ISBN 978-0772721914
Book chapters
[edit]- "To Piety or Conversion More Prone? Gender and Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean"[9]
- "Fleeing "The Vomit of Infidelity": Borders, Conversion and Muslim Women's Agency in the Early Modern Mediterranean"[10]
Awards
[edit]- 2022: Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Netherlands[11]
- 2020: Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship, European University Institute, Italy
- 2006: Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, National Endowment for the Humanities, USA
- 2006: Committee to Rescue Italian Art Fellowship, Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Italy
- 1996: Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Commission, USA
References
[edit]- ^ biographical note connected with Mormons in the Piazza
- ^ a b "Eric Dursteler". Brigham Young University. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
- ^ Rashae Ophus Johnson (December 18, 2005). "Provo:Growing Up". Provo Daily Herald.
- ^ "BYU faculty bio page for Dursteler". Archived from the original on 2017-12-30. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
- ^ "News on the Rialto". Retrieved December 28, 2017.
- ^ "Editorial Board". Journal of Early Modern History. Brill. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
- ^ "International Editorial Advisory Board". University of Malta. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
- ^ "Renaissance and Reformation". Oxford University Press. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
- ^ Ditchfield, Simon; Smith, Helen, eds. (2017). Conversions: Gender & Religious Change in Early Modern Europe. University of Manchester Press. pp. 21–40.
- ^ Living in the Ottoman Realm: Sultans, Subjects, and Elites. Indiana University Press. 2016. pp. 182–193. ISBN 978-0-253-01948-6.
- ^ "News". NIAS. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
| International | |
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| National | |
| Academics | |
| Other | |
- 21st-century American historians
- American male non-fiction writers
- 1964 births
- Living people
- Historians of Italy
- Brigham Young University faculty
- Brigham Young University alumni
- Brown University alumni
- Historians of the Mediterranean
- Latter Day Saints from Utah
- Mormon missionaries in Italy
- Latter Day Saints from Rhode Island
- 21st-century American male writers