John Nickoll Provost's Professor of History, Professor of Italian Studies

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Tara Nummedal (PhD, Stanford, 2001; MA, University of California, Davis, 1996; BA, Pomona College, 1992) is the author of Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2007) and Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), winner of the 2022 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society. With Janice Neri and John V. Calhoun, she published John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Natural History (University of Alabama Press, 2019), and, most recently, with Donna Bilak she co-edited Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens with Scholarly Commentary (University of Virginia Press, 2020), a digital publication on a musical alchemical emblem book, Atalanta fugiens (1618), and winner of the 2022 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History from the American Historical Association. Her work has been supported by the the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and, most recently, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. She is a co-editor, with Joel F. Harrington and H. C. Erik Midelfort, of the Studies in Early Modern German History series at UVA Press, a member of the editorial board of Ambix, a member of the Council for the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, and Past President of the New England Renaissance Conference. She teaches courses in early modern European history and the history of science.

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