DIRECTOR

Sarah MAZA

scm@northwestern.edu

Office:

Harris Hall  L31

1881 Sheridan Rd.

Evanston, IL 60208-2220

Phone: 847-491-7033

Sarah C. Maza (PhD Princeton, 1978),

Jane Long Professor in the Humanities,

specializes in the history of France from the

18th to the 20th century, with a focus on social, cultural and intellectual history. She has published Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty ( Princeton University Press, 1983), Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Celebres of Pre-Revolutionary France (University of California Press, 1993), which won the David Pinkney Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies, and The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850 (Harvard UP, 2003), winner of the George Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association. Her latest book is Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris, (U of California Press, 2011). She also works on issues of theory and methodology, has published articles on cultural history, history and literature, and interdisciplinarity, and coedited the Blackwell Companion to Western Historical Thought (2002). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She is a past president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and currently serves on the council of the American Historical Association.

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For how to apply for a CCHS Graduate Fellowship, please see FELLOWSHIPS.

Current CHS ADVISORY COUNCIL:

Sarah MAZA (CHS Director),

Michael ALLEN (History),

Deborah COHEN (History),

Jorge CORONADO (Spanish and Portuguese/ LACS), Peter HAYES (History Chair),

Kate MASUR (History),

Barbara NEWMAN (English/Religion/Classics),

David SCHOENBRUN (History),

Hendrik SPRUYT (Political Science, Director of BCICS), Steven HARPER (NU alumnus, lecturer, and author), and

Gary T. JOHNSON (President of the Chicago

History Museum).

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Assistant Director
Elzbieta FOELLER-PITUCH
efp@northwestern.edu

Office:

Harris Hall L33

1881 Sheridan Rd.

Evanston, IL 60208-2220

Phone: 847-467-0885

Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch is a literary historian whose current research focuses on the reception of classical mythology and the classical tradition in American culture, a topic that stems from her work during an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship at Harvard University. One of the results of this research is a chapter in American Women and Classical Myths, ed. Gregory Staley (Baylor UP, 2009) on Athena as a cultural icon in the United States. She has recently given papers at international conferences on Henry James and Rome, on neo-classicism in the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, and on literary legacies of the American 1960s.

Elzbieta is proud to have helped establish two scholarly centers at Northwestern University--the Center for the Humanities (now the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities) and the Center for Historical Studies (now the Chabraja CHS). She is the recipient of the 2011-2012 Clarence Ver Steeg award for supporting and mentoring graduate students.

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The CCHS work-study is Emily Davidson,

who is a rising senior in American Studies.

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Michael MARTOCCIO

Michael (Marty) Martoccio's research uses sociological and political science methodologies to examine the changing political structures of Early Modern Europe. Marty's doctoral dissertation, “Between Contract and Conflict: Political Change in Florentine Tuscany, 1328-1454” examines the restraining force of formal contracts on the international environment. Beginning in the late 1320s, the political landscape of central Italy transformed as hundreds of autonomous cities and feudal lords acquiesced to ever larger regional states. After each submission, peaceful or violent, both parties signed a written agreement designed to set the boundaries of their reciprocal relationship. By the mid-15th century, the city of Florence ruled a diverse patchwork, with some communities vertically integrated into the Florentine administration, others losing local fiscal rights while maintaining their juridical independence (and vice versa), and some elevating themselves to the role of intermediary. This dissertation seeks to understand these patterns through interdisciplinary methods, specifically quantitative geographic analysis and qualitative bargaining models. Marty has won the History Department's 2007-2008 George Romani Prize for his essay "Negotiated Dominion: The Construction of the Laurentian Territorial State."

During his Center fellowship Marty is convening a conference on "Cultures of Borrowing: Debt in History" on March 1, 2013. For more, please go to Conferences.