Rutgers History Department

10/20/2026

Posting for our friends and colleagues at the Center for European Studies at Rutgers.

10/19/2026

A recap of Paul Hanebrink’s RCHA History Salon presentation from last week!

10/18/2026

Calling all Rutgers History M.A. and Ph.D. students!

10/18/2026

10/16/2026

Open to all faculty and graduate students.

10/15/2026

This Friday, October 16, 2026, Rutgers graduate students in the humanities interested in the early modern world will give short presentations on how they use early modern sources. Come for one or all. The presentations will take place in AB6051. Opening remarks at 10 am. This event is organized and sponsored by the "Early Modern Now" working group at the CCA.

PROGRAM

10:00 Opening Remarks

10:15-11:15 Atlantic World Perspectives

Javiera Barrientos: “The Colonial Early Modern Archive: Resources and Dislocations”

Josh Anthony: “The Codex Otlazpan and Tepexic”

Samuel Carpenter: “Healing Books: David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, and Lenape Religion”

11:20-12:30 Book Histories

Joy Curry: "Astrological Incunabula in 16th-century Manuscript"

Dana Omirova: “Data Mining Shakespeare”

Daria Sadovnikova: “Tongues Airy, Profane and Prophetic in Comus”

E. Alice Grissom: “(Re)Making History in Columbia University Plimpton MS 266”

12:30-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-2:30 Writing and Gender

Margot Waldman: “‘The Phenix ridle’: Trans Neoplatonism and Textual Crisis in Robert Chester’s Loues Martyr”

Javi Bosket: “‘But the wise will understand’: Faith as a Source in the Prophecies of Lady Eleanor Davies”

Henry Carges: “Blank Spaces Full of Feeling: Intimacy in Archival Reading”

2:35-3:35 Visual Cultures

Christine Staton: “Finding Egypt in Renaissance Florence: the Guardaroba Maps as an Unsuspecting Archive.”

Angela Yin: “Liberalism and As You Like It”

Robin Haas: “Reading Cavendish in the Early Modern Archives from Chawton House to the Folger”

3:40-4:40 Ecological and Intellectual Contexts

Yaacov Bronstein: “As they do in Bedlam”: A Sermon Against Predestination and the Historicist Reading of Hamlet”

Siddhant Datta: “Canal Fever”: Contesting Abstraction in the Archives of Eighteenth-Century Infrastructure”

Pirro Tomco: “‘More loves all his followers more than well’”: The Problem of Oak Trees in Sir Thomas More and Early Modern England

10/14/2026

The Rutgers History Department is delighted to share our fall 2026 newsletter with you via this link:

https://indd.adobe.com/view/317abf8b-713a-45e6-9e40-1bfbcc162070

We hope that you will enjoy reading about the many accomplishments of our colleagues, graduate students, and alumni. What a busy hive of historians!

Rutgers History Department newsletter, Fall 2026

10/09/2026

What a formidable and stimulating lineup of speakers!

10/06/2026

Posting for our colleagues at the Rutgers Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

10/06/2026

Mark your calendars for a book talk by Dr. Satya Shikha Chakraborty (Rutgers History PhD).