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.[1] Nummedal is known for her works on Anna Maria Zieglerin and the history of alchemy and natural science in early modern Europe.[2][3]

Biography

Nummedal is originally from Seal Beach, California,[2] 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.[2][4]

She joined the Brown University faculty in 2002.[1] Her husband, Seth Rockman, is also a historian at Brown University.[5]

Publications

Books

  • Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2007)[6]
  • Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)[7]
  • 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).[8]

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.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Tara E. Nummedal", Department of History: People, Brown University, retrieved 2021-04-01
  2. 1 2 3 4 "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:
    • Bernardoni, Andrea (2009), Nuncius, 24 (2): 524–525, doi:10.1163/182539109X00796{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Brand, P. (April 2009), German History, 27 (2): 288–289, doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghp010{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Dym, Warren Alexander (February 2010), "Review", H-German
    • Garber, Margaret D. (Fall 2009), "Untwisting the Greene Lyon's Tale", Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 39 (4): 491–500, doi:10.1525/hsns.2009.39.4.491, JSTOR 10.1525/hsns.2009.39.4.491
    • Hayton, Darin (Winter 2008), "Review", Renaissance Quarterly, 61 (4): 1343–1344, doi:10.1353/ren.0.0364, S2CID 191513190
    • Janacek, Bruce (Fall 2009), The Sixteenth Century Journal, 40 (3): 1001–1003, JSTOR 40540917{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Kusukawa, Sachiko (December 2009), The Journal of Modern History, 81 (4): 989–991, doi:10.1086/650676, JSTOR 10.1086/650676{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Long, Pamela O. (October 2009), The American Historical Review, 114 (4): 1141–1142, doi:10.1086/ahr.114.4.1141, JSTOR 23883076{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Michaud, Claude (July 2008), Revue Historique, 310 (3): 702–704, JSTOR 40958256{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Moran, Bruce T. (Winter 2008), Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (4): 944–945, JSTOR 44449648{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Popper, N. (May 2009), Social History of Medicine, 22 (2): 396–398, doi:10.1093/shm/hkp018{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Rampling, Jennifer (January 2011), Technology and Culture, 52 (1): 185–187, doi:10.1353/tech.2011.0041, JSTOR 23020467, S2CID 201759936{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Remmert, Volker R. (2009), Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, 36 (1): 144–146, JSTOR 43571028{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Rey Bueno, Mar (2009), "Reseña", Dynamis (in Spanish), 29: 383–386
    • Roos, Anna Marie (December 2008), The British Journal for the History of Science, 41 (4): 608–610, doi:10.1017/S0007087408001647, JSTOR 30165757{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Shackelford, Jole (March 2009), Isis, 100 (1): 162–164, doi:10.1086/599664, JSTOR 10.1086/599664{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Shantz, Douglas H. (February 2010), German Studies Review, 33 (1): 164–165, JSTOR 40574933{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. ↑ Reviews of Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood:
  8. ↑ Review of John Abbot and William Swainson:


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