Maryanne Cline Horowitz is an American

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and of

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. She is Professor of History at

Occidental College Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is one of the oldes ...

, Associate of the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, and an Affiliate of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. Horowitz is best known as the author of ''Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge'', which won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History in 1999 from the

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. Dr. Horowitz served as Editor-in-Chief of the ''New Dictionary of the History of Ideas'' (6 volumes or E-book) which the American Library Association division RUSA declared an Outstanding Reference Source 2005. She is Co-Editor, ''Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents'' (Brill Press, 2020). She is an innovator in women's and gender history and was a Research Associate in Women's Studies in Religion at the

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, 1979-80. She serves on the Board of Editors of the Journal of the History of ideas, and edited two books in their series Library of the History of Ideas As President of the Renaissance Conference of Southern California, she hosted a national conference for the Renaissance Society of America in 1985 at The Huntington Library, Occidental College, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, commemorated in the co-edited book ''Renaissance Rereadings: Intertext and Context''.Renaissance Rereadings: Intertext and Context, eds. Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Anne J. Cruz, and Wendy A. Furman (University of Illinois Press,1988), vii-viii

Education

* B.A. with Honors (History)

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. * M.A.T (Education)

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

. * Ph.D. (History)

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, UW–Madison ...

Selected publications

Maryanne Horowitz has published numerous articles and several books, a selection: * 1997. ''Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge'', Princeton University Press., December 1997 ACLS e-book. * 2004. ''New Dictionary of the History of Ideas''. Charles Scribners & Sons, New York, 2004 . * 2020. ''Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents''. Brill Press e-book and .

References

External links

Horowitz' Home page

USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
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