ELIZABETH A. HORODOWICH
Department of History, MSC 3H
New Mexico State University, P.O. Box 30001
Las Cruces, NM 88003
505-646-1515/ lizh@nmsu.edu
EDUCATION
University of Michigan, Ph.D., History, December 2000
Oberlin College, Bachelor of Arts degree, May 1992
Assistant Professor of History, New Mexico State University, 2002-present
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan, Fall 2000-Fall 2001
Atlantic History Seminar Short-Term Research Grant, Harvard University, 2007
New Mexico State University College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Faculty
Achievement Award, 2006
The National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award, 2006-7
The American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant, 2005
The Gladys-Krieble Delmas Foundation Venetian Research Grant, 2005
New Mexico State University Arts and Sciences Research Mini-Grant, 2004
The American Historical Association Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European
History, 2003
Medici Archive Project Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Florentine State Archives, 2002
(declined)
University of Michigan Horace Rackham Postdoctoral Research Fellow, January-April
2002
“A Voice of Their Own: Women Writers in Venice, Paris, and London, 1500-1750, “
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, Chapel Hill, NC, July 2001
The Gladys-Krieble Delmas Foundation Venetian Research Grant, 1999-2000
BOOKS
Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice, forthcoming with
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008
A Brief History of Venice, forthcoming with Constable and Robinson, London, 2009
“Body Politics and the Tongue in Sixteenth-Century Venice,” in The Body in Early
Modern Italy, ed. Walter Stephens and Julia Hairston (Baltimore and London: The
Johns Hopkins University Press), forthcoming 2008.
“Cecilia Ferrazzi and the Pursuit of Sanctity in the Early Modern World,” in Teaching
Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe, ed. Margaret L. King
and Albert Rabil Jr. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007),
176-82.
“Editors and Armchair Travelers: The Venetian Discovery of the New World,”
The Sixteenth-Century Journal 36:4 (2005), 1039-1062.
“The Gossiping Tongue: Oral Networks, Public Life, and Political Culture in Early Modern
Venice,” Renaissance Studies 19:1 (2005), 22-45.
“The New Venice: Historians and Historiography in the 21st Century Lagoon,” History
Compass 2 (2004), 1-27.
“Civic Identity and the Control of Blasphemy in Sixteenth-Century Venice,” Past and
Present 181 (November 2003), 3-33.
Margaret Doody, “Tropic of Venice,” forthcoming in Journal of Modern Italian Studies,
2008.
James Shaw, “The Justice of Venice: Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy,
1550-1700,”forthcoming in Economic History Review, 2007.
Peter Burke, “Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe,” The Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 37:4, 605-6.
T.F. Earle and K.J. P. Lowe, eds., “Black Africans in Renaissance Europe,” Renaissance
Quarterly 59:2 (Summer 2006), 569-70.
Emlyn Eisenach, “Husbands, Wives, and Concubines: Marriage, Family, and Social Order
in Sixteenth-Century Verona,” Renaissance Quarterly 58:3 (Fall 2005), 913-5.
Robert C. Davis and Garry R. Marvin, “Venice the Tourist maze: A Cultural Critique of the
World’s Most Touristed City,” News on the Rialto 24 (2005), 7-8.
Paula Findlen and Duane Osheim, eds., “Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and
Early Modern Italy,” The Sixteenth-Century Journal 35:3 (Fall 2004), 927-8.
Brendan Dooley, “Morandi’s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics,” Early
Science and Medicine VIII: 3 (2003), 279-80.
Joanne Ferraro, “Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice,” The Journal of Modern
History 75 (September 2003), 705-7.
“Europe and New Worlds: Travel and Colonialism in Early Modern Culture,”thematic
review, European Review of History 10:I (March 2003), 115-21.
Valeria Finucci, “The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the
Italian Renaissance,” forthcoming in Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain
Medieval and Renaissance Association 24 (2003), 124-28.
“Rethinking Female Spirituality: Piety and Sainthood in Late Medieval Europe,” thematic
review, Gender and History 14:2 (August 2002), 340-45.
“The Politics of Talk in Renaissance Venice,” and chair of panel “Publics, Public Discourse and Public Opinion Making in Early Modern Europe,” The
Renaissance Society of America, Miami, March 22, 2007.
Invited speaker, “Venice, the Lagoon, and its Artistic Culture,” University of Alberta study
abroad program in Cortona, Italy, February 27, 2007.
Invited alumni speaker/colloquium presentation, “Jobs and the Job Market for Historians,”
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, December 8, 2006.
"Armchair Travelers and Venetian Constructions of Empire in Sixteenth-Century Europe,”
The Ottoman and Atlantic Empires, Istanbul, October 19-21, 2005.
“Insults and Community in Renaissance Venice,” The Renaissance Society of America,
New York, April 2004.
“Testimony Without Witness: Gossip and Hearsay in Sixteenth-Century Venice,” The
American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2004.
“The Unbounded Imagination: Armchair Travelers and the Exploration of the New World
in Sixteenth-Century Venice,” Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers: Public Lecture
Series in History, New Mexico State University, November 2003.
“Women’s Sense of Space in the Age of Overseas Expansion,” Attending to Early
Modern Women: Structures and Subjectivities, University of Maryland, November
2003.
“Armchair Travelers in the New World: Ramusio and Exploration in Early Modern
Venice,” Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, April 2003.
“Blasphemy and Corporal Punishment: The Body and Public Spectacle in Sixteenth-
Century Venice,” The Body in Early Modern Italy, Johns Hopkins University,
October 2002.
“Beyond Venus and the Virgin: Veronica Franco and the Myth of Venice,”
Renaissance Society of America, Scottsdale, AZ, April 2002.
“Gender and Deception in Italian Renaissance Literature,” Shell Games: Scams, Frauds,
and Deceits, 1300-1650, University of Toronto Centre for Reformation and
Renaissance Studies, April 2001.
“Blasphemy, Class, and Republican Order in Sixteenth-Century Venice,” Marcia
Colish Retirement Symposium, Oberlin, OH, May 2001.
“The Unruly Tongue: Comportment and Control in Renaissance Venice,” Invited
Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, January 2001.
“The Unmannered Tongue: Gossip and Oral Networks in Sixteenth-Century Venice,”
Invited Lecture, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, November 2000.
“The Politics of Blasphemy in Early Modern Venice,” Invited Lecture, Georgia State
University, Atlanta, GA, February 2000.
“Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Renaissance Venice,” Circolo Italo Brittanico, Venice, March 1999.
Chair of panel “'Secret' Spaces, “ The Rhetorics and Rituals of (Un)Veiling in Early Modern Europe, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1997.
“Inventing a Heretic: Gossip and the Circulation of the Spoken Word,” Venice Reflected:
The Making of Culture 1500-1800, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
October 1996.
“Un/civil Conversation: Speech in the trials of the Venetian Holy Office,” University of
Warwick 1995 History Symposium, Venice, December 1995.
COURSES TAUGHT
Survey Courses from Ancient Rome to 1945; Upper-Division Courses on
Renaissance and Reformation Europe; The Western Tradition in Greek and Latin Literature; Europe and the New World Encounters, History of Gender in Europe, and graduate student research and writing seminars.
Editorial Board Member, History Compass (Blackwell/Oxford University Press,
http://www.history-compass.com/).
Referee of article and book manuscripts for Gender and History, Essays in Economic and
Business History, Oxford University Press, The University of Toronto Press,
Prentice Hall, and Wadsworth Publishing.
Referee of grant proposals for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT
Undergraduate Director, History Department, Fall 2004-Spring 2006.
New Mexico State University Faculty Senator, 2003-6.
Core Member of NEH Seminar “Islamic Civilization,” New Mexico State University,
2003.
Faculty Development Technology Workshops in PowerPoint, PhotoShop, EndNote, and
Dreamweaver, Spring and Fall 2001.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
Society for Italian Historical Studies
Renaissance Society of America
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Complete fluency in spoken and written Italian; strong reading and intermediate
speaking ability in French; reading ability in German and Latin.
REFERENCES
Diane Owen Hughes, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
John Martin, Professor of History, Trinity University
Thomas Tentler, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Michigan
Kathleen Canning, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Helmut Puff, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Edward Muir, Professor of History, Northwestern University
William Eamon, Professor of History, New Mexico State University