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American historian
Tara Nummedal
SpouseSeth Rockman
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2009)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineEuropean history
Sub-disciplineHistory of science
Institutions

Tara E. Nummedal is a professor of history and Italian studies at Brown University, where she holds the John Nickoll Provost’s Professorship in History. Nummedal is known for her works on Anna Maria Zieglerin and the history of alchemy and natural science in early modern Europe.

Biography

Nummedal is originally from Seal Beach, California, and is a 1992 graduate of Pomona College. After earning a master's degree at the University of California, Davis in 1996, she completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2001.

She joined the Brown University faculty in 2002. Her husband, Seth Rockman, is also a historian at Brown University.

Publications

Books

  • Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
  • Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
  • John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in 19th-Century Natural History Illustration (with Janice Neri and John V. Calhoun, University of Alabama Press, 2019).

Editor

With Donna Bilak, she is also the editor of a critical edition of Atalanta Fugiens by Michael Maier, Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens with Scholarly Commentary (University of Virginia Press, 2020).

Recognition

Nummedal was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009.

References

  1. ^ "Tara E. Nummedal", Department of History: People, Brown University, retrieved 2021-04-01
  2. ^ "Tara Nummedal", All Fellows, Guggenheim Foundation, retrieved 2021-04-01
  3. Wilford, John Noble (August 1, 2006), "Transforming the Alchemists: Some historians are rethinking the role of trial-and-error alchemy in the development of chemistry as a science", The New York Times
  4. "Tara E Nummedal: Professor of History, Professor of Italian Studies", Vivo, Brown University, retrieved 2021-04-01
  5. Coe, Alexis (January 17, 2013), "Being Married Helps Professors Get Ahead, but Only If They're Male: A new study of history professors shows that married men get promoted faster than their single colleagues, while the opposite is true for women", The Atlantic
  6. Reviews of Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire:
  7. Reviews of Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood:
  8. Review of John Abbot and William Swainson:

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