Benjamin
Schmidt: Areas of Graduate Study
Professor Schmidt offers a field covering the social, political, and
especially cultural history of Europe from around the mid-fifteenth century
through the mid-eighteenth century. Topics vary from year to year, and
students tend to play a considerable part in shaping their own programs
of study. Recent graduate seminars have examined courts and court culture;
habits of collecting and the practice of early modern "science";
Europe's encounter with the Americas; the expansion of early modern geography
and the culture of curiosity; the history of reading, literacy, and the
book; visual culture in early modern Europe. Europe's engagement with
the non-European world is also included in the field: early modern expansion,
colonialism, and globalism.
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