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Areas of Expertise

Professor McCahill’s research interests include the medieval and Renaissance reception of the classical legacy, early modern cultural and religious history, patronage and institutional history, humanism, and the city of Rome. She teaches courses on Western Civilization, “Saints, Witches and Heretics,” the Renaissance and Reformation, and early modern cities.

Degrees

PhD Princeton University
BA Yale University

Professional Publications & Contributions

• “Finding a Job as a Humanist: the Epistolary Collection of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger," Renaissance Quarterly, December 2004.
• “Rewriting Vergil, Rereading Rome: Maffeo Vegio, Poggio Bracciolini, Flavio Biondo and Early Quattrocento Antiquarianism,” Memoirs of the American Academy, 2009.

Additional Information

Spring 2013 Office Hours: On leave. Will return in Fall 2013

I joined the History Department in the fall of 2009 and am excited to be back in the area after growing up just north of Boston. I received my B.A. from Yale University and my Ph.D. from Princeton University, then worked as an assistant professor in New Hampshire (at Keene State College) and Tennessee (at the University of the South). I spent the 2008-2009 academic year at the American Academy in Rome, Italy, where I was completing research for a book project about Rome and the papal court in the early 1400s. I have published on patronage and on antiquarian scholarship and am in the midst of two new articles, one about the library of a Renaissance cardinal and another about a Renaissance epistolary collection modeled on the letters of the ancient Roman statesman, Cicero.

Professor McCahill's CV