Tara Nummedal | |
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Spouse | Seth Rockman |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2009) |
Academic background | |
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Discipline | European history |
Sub-discipline | History of science |
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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]
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]
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).
Nummedal was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009.[2]