1 February 2024 Tamar Herzig: Curriculum Vitae 2000-2005 Ph.D 1998-2000 M.A 1995-1998 B.A Education History, Summa cum laude, Hebrew University of Jerusalem History, Summa cum laude, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. History and Philosophy, Summa cum laude, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2022-present 2021-Feb. 2024 2014-2021 2019-present 2015-2019 2011-2015 2007-2011 Employment at Tel Aviv University Konrad Adenauer Chair of Comparative European History. Vice Dean for Research, Faculty of Humanities. Director, Morris E. Curiel Institue for European Studies. Full Professor of History. Associate Professor, Department of History. Tenured Senior Lecturer, Department of History. Senior Lecturer [without tenure], Department of History. 2022-present 2021-present 2019-present 2019-2022 External Appointments Board of Directors, Renaissance Society of America. Academic Board of Governors, Bialik Institute, Israel. Vice Chairperson of the Historical Society of Israel. External Member of the Open University of Israel’s Senate and Superior Appointment Committee (for Associate and Full Professors). 2023 2023 2022 2022 2021 2021 2021 2020 2019 2018-2021 2016 Prizes, Awards, and Honors ERC Advanced Grant PI, for Female Slavery in Mediterranean Catholic Europe, 1500-1800 (2,488,125 euros, for 5 years, 2024-2029). FuggiStoria Europa Prize, awarded in the Italian Parliament on December 20, 2023 for contribution to the study of European history. Winner, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Best Article Award for 2022 for “Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence: A Multiple Perpetrator Rape in Seventeenth-Century Livorno” (AHR 127:1). Awarded the Mediterranean Seminar’s Article of the Month Award for “Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence: A Multiple Perpetrator Rape in Seventeenth-Century Livorno” (AHR 127:1) for July 2022. Awarded the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies’ Michael Bruno Memorial Award for Groundbreaking Research. Selected as historian moderating the launch event of the new Dan David Prize in the Study of the Human Past (the world’s largest history prize). Awarded Honorable Mention, the Renaissance Society of America’s Gordan Book Prize in Renaissance Studies for A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Winner of the American Historical Association’s Rosenberg Prize, for A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Winner of the Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research (Senior Scholars category), for research on religious conversion. Elected for a second term as Discipline Representative for Religion, Renaissance Society of America. Tel Aviv University Student Organization Tribute for Excellence in Teaching. 2 2015 2014-2017 2013 2012-2016 2008 2008-2009 2007 2006 2001 2000 2000 1999 1999 1998 2023 2020-[Oct. 2024] 2018 2015-2019 2017 2016 2015 2015 2013-2014 2010-2013 2009-2010 2007-2010 Inclusion in Tel Aviv University’s Highest Ranking in Students’ Teaching Evaluation Club. Elected Discipline Representative for Religion, Renaissance Society of America. Rector’s Outstanding Teaching Award, Tel Aviv University. Elected member of the Opening Group of the Young Academy of Israel, founded by the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index Article of the Month Award for “Witches, Saints, and Heretics: Heinrich Kramer’s Ties with Italian Women Mystics.” Elected Member, Junior Scholars’ Forum, Humanities Division, Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Medieval Academy of America Publication Subvention Award for a First Book in Medieval Studies for Savonarola’s Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy. Bernard M. Bloomfield Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies Prize for Distinguished Ph.D. Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Award of Academic Excellency from the Israeli Parliament (Knesset). Rector’s Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies Prize for Distinguished M.A. Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Valedictorian, Graduation Ceremony of the Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jacob Talmon Award of Academic Excellency for B.A. Students, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Additional Research Grants and Fellowships Israel Science Foundation Workshop Grant. Israel Science Foundation 4-year Research Grant for the project Jewish Slave Women in Early Modern Italy. Fund for the Advancement of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Foreign Visitor Grant. Israel Science Foundation 4-year Research Grant for the project Convents and Conversion in Early Modern Italy. School of History, Tel Aviv University, writing grant. Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Lecture Program Grant (granted by Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies). TAU-University of Maryland Joint Workshop Grant (with Profs. Stefano Villani and Bernard Cooperman). Vice President’s Publications’ Grant, Tel Aviv University. Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) Jean-François Malle Fellowship (1 year). Israel Science Foundation 3-year Research Grant for the project Female Spirituality in the Struggle with Heresy at the Threshold of the Early Modern Era. Vice President’s Research Grant, Tel Aviv University. Israeli Council for Higher Education, Yigal Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Junior Faculty. 3 2008-2009 2005-2007 2005 2005 2003 2002-2005 2002 2002 2000-2002 1998-2000 1996-1998 2021— 2021— 2020— 2020— 2019— 2019— 2018-2023 2016— 2015-2021 2015-2021 2015-2019 2012— 2024 2023 Andrew W. Mellon Long-Term Fellowship for research at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (1 year). Hanadiv Postdoctoral Fellowship in European History (2 years). Selected by the Lady Davis Foundation Committee as a Recipient of the Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2005/6 (declined). Selected as a Recipient of the Rothschild Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities for 2005/6 (declined). Research Travel Grant, Institute for European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Rector’s extended Tuition and Stipend Scholarship for Outstanding Ph.D. Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (3 years). Short-Term Fellowship, Newberry Library, Chicago. Short-Term Fellowship, Memorial Library, University of WisconsinMadison. George L. Mosse Tuition and Stipend Scholarship (2 years) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (in 2000-2001) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (in 2001-2002). Rector’s Tuition and Stipend Scholarship for Outstanding M.A. Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2 years). Dean’s Tuition Scholarship for B.A. Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2 years). Editorial and Advisory Boards Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme (University of Toronto). Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft (University of Pennsylvania Press). Member of the Editorial Board of the book series Storia e cultura. Member of the Advisory Committee of the book series I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History (Harvard University Press). Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Mediterranean Historical Review (Taylor & Francis). Member, Comitato Scientifico Internazionale, Scienza & Politica: Per una storia delle dottrine (University of Bologna). Member of the Editorial Board of the journal I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance (University of Chicago Press). Member of the Editorial Board of the book series Scritture nel Chiostro. Member of the Editorial Board (in 2015-2019), and then of the Advisory Committee (2019-2021) of Renaissance Quarterly (Cambridge U Press). Discipline Representative for Religion, Renaissance Society of America. Member of the editorial board of the book series The Medieval Mediterranean (Brill). Member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Editorial Board of the Bialik Institute Publishing House, Israel. Research Collaborations and Networks Invited Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley (invited by Prof. Diego Pirillo) and Stanford University (invited by Prof. Paula Findlen and Prof. Rowan Dorin). Invited Visiting Professor, University of Tübingen. Invited by Prof. Renate Dürr as collaborator in the Global Encounters Project. 4 2022— Management Committee Member, People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923) COST project. Member, Working Group on Comparative Slavery (Harvard University, Brown University, University of Leeds, Casa de Africa, Havana, and Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). Core Group Member, Recognizing Religion(s): The Cultural Dynamics of Religious Encounters project (Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, NYU Abu Dhabi, U of Copenhagen). Advisory Board Member, The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics, and Reform in Renaissance Italy (Univeristy of Oslo, Norway). Advisory Board Member, Observer l’Observance: Diffusion, réseaux et influences des réformes régulières en Europe project (École française de Rome, Italy). Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (in 2015-2019), and then of the Executive Committee (2019-present) of the International Research Group for Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism (EmoDir). 2022— 2021— 2018— 2016— 2015— Publications Books Invited book currently in preparation Tamar Herzig. Enslaved Women in Renaissance Italy. Commissioned for the series Cambridge Elements in the Renaissance. Under contract with Cambridge University Press (to be submitted by March 2025). Published monographs 1. Tamar Herzig. A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. *Awarded Honorable Mention of the Renaissance Society of America’s 2021 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize in Renaissance Studies. *Winner of the American Historical Association’s 2020 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize for the best book on the history of the Jewish diaspora. *Reviewed by Simon Ditchfield in Times Higher Education (March 12, 2020) *Reviewed by Allegra Baggio Corradi in Reviews in History (June 2020) *Reviewed by Katherine Aron-Beller in H-Net (August 2020) *Reviewed by Laura Graziani-Secchieri in Materia giudaica 25 (Winter 2020) *Reviewed by Meghan Callahan in Canadian Journal of History 55:3 (Winter 2020) *Reviewed by Nilab Ferozan in Renaissance and Reformation 43:4 (Winter 2020) *Reviewed by Brian Ditcham in Sixteenth Century Journal 52:1 (2021) *Reviewed by Emily Michelson in Renaissance Studies 35:1 (March 2021) *Reviewed by Rachel Miller in Annali d’italianistica 39 (2021), pp. 685-687. *Reviewed by Matteo Al-Kalak in Rivista Storica Italiana 133:1 (April 2021) *Reviewed by Paola Tartakoff in Marginalia, of Los Angeles Review of Books (April 2021) *Reviewed by Dana E. Katz in Renaissance Quarterly 74:2 (Summer 2021) *Reviewed by Debra Kaplan in American Historical Review 126:3 (September 2021) *Reviewed by Marci Freedman in H-Judaic (May 2022) *Reviewed by L. Scott Lerner in Journal of Jewish Identities ( Summer 2022) *Review by Rosa Salzberg in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (June 2022) *Reviewed by Miri Rubin in Journal of Modern History (June 2022) 5 *Featuring in a special review essay by Serena Di Nepi, “Jews, Italy, Renaissance: Parole antiche e nuovi paradigmi per una storiografia internazionale in movimento,” Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni 87:2 (2021), pp. 737-745. *Featuring in a special review essay by Michaela Valente, “Prima e dopo la conversione: A proposito di Salomone-Ercole de’ Fedeli, orafo nell’Italia del Rinascimento,” Archivio Storico Italiano 179:3 (2021), pp. 587-596. *Discussed by Chiara Franceschini, Xenia von Tippelskirch, and Serena Di Nepi in a book event organized by the University of Tübingen in June 2021 (online). *Discussed by Mary Laven, Miri Rubin, and Dana E. Katz in a book event organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in October 2021 (online). *Media coverage: The Tablet; Haaretz; New Books Network. Hebrew translation: .2023 ,‫ מאגנס‬:‫ ירושלים‬.‫ פשיעה והתנצרות באיטליה בימי הרנסנס‬,‫ אמנות‬:‫ סיפורו של מומר‬.‫ תמר הרציג‬.1a Italian translation: 1b. Tamar Herzig. Storia di un ebreo convertito. Arte, criminalità e religione nell’Italia del Rinascimento. Rome: Viella (La storia. Temi series), 2023. *Reviewed by Micaela Torboli in La Voce di Ferrara Comacchio (Oct. 13, 2023), p. 12. *Media coverage: La Lettura - Corriere della Sera; Pagine ebraiche. 2. Tamar Herzig. ‘Christ Transformed into a Virgin Woman’: Lucia Brocadelli, Heinrich Institoris, and the Defense of the Faith. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2013. *Discussed in the a special forum of the journal Memorie Domenicane, n.s. 46-47 (2015-2016), (by Adelisa Malena, Matteo Duni); *Reviewed by Giorgio Caravale in Renaissance Quarterly 70 (2017); *Reviewed by Armando Maggi in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 66 (2015); *Reviewed by Christopher F. Black in English Historical Review 130: 545 (August 2015); *Reviewed by Michael Ostling in American Historical Review 120:2 (April 2015); *Reviewed by Jeffrey R. Watt in Sixteenth Century Journal 46:2 (Summer 2015); *Reviewed by Georg Modestin in Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte 109 (2015); *Reviewed by Marco Cavarzere in Genesis 14 (2015); *Reviewed by Giovanna Casagrande in Bollettino della Deputazione di Storia Patria per l’Umbria 111:1/2 (2014); *Reviewed by Fabrizio Conti in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 9:1 (Summer 2014); *Reviewed by Michael Tavuzzi in Catholic Historical Review 100:3 (Summer 2014); *Media coverage: L’Osservatore romano April 4, 2014, p. 5 (by Anna Foa). 3. Tamar Herzig. The Italian Renaissance (in Hebrew). Raanana: The Open University of Israel Press, 2011; 2014. 4. Tamar Herzig. Savonarola’s Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. *Medieval Academy of America Publication Subvention Award for a First Book in Medieval Studies. *Reviewed by Konrad Eisenbichler in Renaissance Quarterly 61:3 (Fall 2008); 6 *Reviewed by P. Renée Baernstein in American Historical Review 114 (February 2009); *Reviewed by Stefano Dall’Aglio in Archivio Storico Italiano 168 (October-December 2010); *Reviewed by John Coakley in Speculum 86:1 (January 2011); *Reviewed by Sienna Hopkins in Annali d’Italianistica 27 (2009); *Reviewed by Cynthia Polecritti in Canadian Journal of History 43:2 (Autumn 2008); *Reviewed by Querciolo Mazzonis in European History Quartely 40 (Winter 2010); *Reviewed by Christine Meek in Sixteenth Century Journal 40:4 (Fall 2009); *Reviewed by Marco Cavarzere in Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo 6:2 (2009); *Reviewed by Barry Collett in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 61:2 (2010); *Reviewed by Kate Lowe in Catholic Historical Review 96:1 (January 2010). *Italian translation: 4a.Tamar Herzig. Le donne di Savonarola: Spiritualità e devozione nell’Italia del Rinascimento. Trans. Adelisa Malena and Mariana Scarfone. Preface by Gabriella Zarri. Rome: Carocci, 2014. *Reviewed by Vincenzo Lavnia in Nuovi Annali (2014); *Reviewed by Guglielmo Salotti in Storia in rete (2015); *Reviewed by Vincenzo Lagioia in Storicamente (2015). *Media coverage: Il Sole 24 Ore (by Lucetta Scaraffia); Corriere della Sera; Corriere del Sud. Edited Volumes 1. Miriam Eliav-Feldon and Tamar Herzig, eds. Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 2. Asaph Ben-Tov, Yaacov Deutsch, and Tamar Herzig, eds. Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Honor of Michael Heyd. Leiden: Brill , 2013. 3. Luca Baraldi, Tamar Herzig, and Gabriella Zarri, eds. Ebraismo e cristianesimo in Italia tra ’400 e ’600: Confronti e convergenze. Special issue of Archivio Italiano per la Storia della Pietà 25 (2012). Scientific Editing of Books 1.Lynn Lara Westwater. Sarra Copia Sulam: A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in CounterReformation Venice. Hebrew translation by Amotz Giladi. Scientific Editing of the Hebrew edition by Tamar Herzig. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press (forthcoming, 2024) [in Hebrew]. Journal Articles 1. Tamar Herzig. “Attraction and Its Discontents: Tenstions Surrounding the Monchization of Baptized Jews in Early Modern Italy.” Renaissance and Reformation/ Renaissance et Réforme (fothcoming, Winter 2024). Accepted for publication on October 8, 2023. 2. Tamar Herzig and Omer Elmakais. “Caroline Bynum Across the Generations: An Afterword.” Common Knowledge special issue, dedicated to the work of Caroline Bynum (forthcoming, Winter 2024). 3. Tamar Herzig. “As moscas, os hereges e gênero da bruxaria.” Revista Escritas do tempo 5:13 (2023): 130-155 (Portuguese translation of #20). 4. Tamar Herzig. “Enslavement, Religion, and Cultural Commemoration in Livorno.” Special issue on Rethinking Catholicism in Early Modern Italy: Gender, Space, Mobility, ed. Diego Pirillo and John Christopoulos: Religions 14:5 (May 2023), pp. 1-13. 7 5. Tamar Herzig. “Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence: A Multiple Perpetrator Rape in Seventeenth-Century Livorno.” American Hitorical Review 127:1 (March 2022), pp. 94-122. *Awarded the Mediterranean Seminar’s Article of the Month Award (July 2022). *Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women 2022 Best Article Award. *Media coverage English: Newsweek; Haaretz; The Florida Star; Jewish Review; Jewish News Syndicate; Jerusalem Post; JWire; Cleveland Jewish News; Jewish Business News; Scienmag Science Magazine; QuickTelecast; Mosaic Magazine; Hebrew: Maariv; KAN TARBUT Radio; Dutch: Israelnieuws; Hungarian: Neokohn; Spanish: La Vanguardia; Noticias de Israel; El Diario; Italian: Il Venerdì di Repubblica; La Nazione; Livornopress; Toscana Ebraica; Meteoweb 6. Tamar Herzig. “The Future of Studying Jewish Conversion in Renaissance Italy.” Special issue on Fields of the Future/The Future of the Field, ed. Jane C. Tylus: I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 22:2 (Fall 2019), pp. 311-318. 7. Tamar Herzig. “Introduction.” Special issue on Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola (14691533): Faith, Antiquity, and the Witch Hunt, ed. Marco Piana: Renaissance and Reformation/ Renaissance et Réforme 42:4 (Fall 2019), pp. 11-16. 8. Tamar Herzig. “Reformations, Nuns, and Nunneries in the Early Modern Era.” Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly 140 (2019) [special issue on 500 Years to the Reformation, ed. Miriam Eliav-Feldon and Moshe Sluhovsky], pp. 32-47 [in Hebrew]. 9. Tamar Herzig. “Saints and Mystics before Trent.” Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Margaret L. King. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018 [published online: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195399301/obo-97801953993010377.xml?rskey=6gcnE3&result=263 ]. 10. Tamar Herzig. “Saints and their Lives in the First Age of Print.” Quaderni Storici 156:3 (December 2017), pp. 919-926. 11. Tamar Herzig. “‘For the Salvation of This Girl’s Soul’: Nuns as Converters of Jews in Early Modern Italy.” Religions 8:11 (2017), pp. 252-265. 12. Tamar Herzig. “The Hazards of Conversion: Nuns, Jews, and Demons in Late Renaissan9e Italy.” Church History 85:3 (September 2016), pp. 468-501. *Media coverage: Treccani: La cultura italiana. 13. Tamar Herzig. “Nuns, Artists, and Baptized Jews: The Vestition Ceremony of Suor Theodora, Quondam Hebrea.” Memorie domenicane n.s. 46 (2015), pp. 243-264. 14. Tamar Herzig. “Stigmatized Holy Women as Female Christs.” Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà 26 (2013) [special issue on Discorsi sulle stimmate dal Medioevo all’età contemporanea, edited by Gábor Klaniczay], pp. 149-174. 15. Tamar Herzig. “Methodology and Ideology: The Challenges of Studying Gender History.” Proceedings of the Young Scholars’ Forum of the Humanities Division of the Israeli Academy of Sciences 1 (2013), pp. 1-22 [in Hebrew]. 8 16. Tamar Herzig. “Anti-Jewish Polemics and Female Stigmatization in Renaissance Ferrara.” Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà 25: Special issue on Ebraismo e cristianesimo in Italia tra '400 e '600: Confronti e convergenze, ed. Luca Baraldi, Tamar Herzig, and Gabriella Zarri (2012), pp. 113-138. 17. Tamar Herzig. “Le ‘sante vive’ italiane tra propaganda antiereticale, appello alla crociata e critica luterana.” Genesis: Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche 10:1 (2011), pp. 125-146. 18. Tamar Herzig. “The Demons and the Friars: Illicit Magic and Mendicant Rivalry in Renaissance Bologna.” Renaissance Quarterly 64.4 (Winter 2011), pp. 1025-1058. 19. Tamar Herzig. “Heretics, Witches, and Gender: Inquisitorial Discourse before the Establishment of the Roman Inquisition.” Atti dei Convegni Lincei 260 [A dieci anni dall'apertura dell’Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede: Storia e Archivi dell'Inquisizione] (2011), pp. 197-224. 20. Tamar Herzig. “Flies, Heretics and the Gendering of Witchcraft.” Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 5:1 (Summer 2010), pp. 51-80. 21. Tamar Herzig. “Bridging North and South: Inquisitorial Networks and Witchcraft Theory on the Eve of the Reformation.” Journal of Early Modern History 12:5 (December 2008), pp. 361382. 22. Tamar Herzig. “Women’s Participation in the Savonarolan Reform in Ferrara.” Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo 4:2 (Fall 2007), pp. 331-354. 23. Tamar Herzig. “Witches, Saints, and Heretics: Heinrich Kramer’s Ties with Italian Women Mystics.” Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 1:1 (Summer 2006), pp. 24-55. *Selected as Article of the Month for Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index (January, 2008) 24. Tamar Herzig. “The Rise and Fall of a Savonarolan Visionary: Lucia Brocadelli’s Contribution to the Piagnone Movement.” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 95 (2004), pp. 3460. 25. Tamar Herzig. “The Demons’ Reaction to Sodomy: Witchcraft and Homosexuality in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s Strix.” Sixteenth Century Journal 34:1 (April 2003), pp. 53-72. Book chapters 1. Tamar Herzig. “Colomba da Rieti in the Writings of Heinrich Institoris (Kramer),” in La Santa delle Due Città: Colomba tra Rieti e Perugia nel Contesto Europeo, ed. Giovanna Casagrande, Maria Luisa Cianini Pierotti, Amilcare Conti and Pierantonio Piatti. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2022, vol. 1, pp. 345-366. 2. Tamar Herzig. “Femmes mystiques et propagande antihérétique,” in Femmes, mysticisme et prophétisme en Europe du Moyen Age à l’époque moderne, ed. Hélène Michon, Élise Boillet, and Denise Ardesi. Travaux du Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance 4. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021, pp. 25-44. 9 3. Tamar Herzig. “Rethinking Jewish Conversion to Christianity in Renaissance Italy,” in Renaissance Religions [Europa Sacra, no. 26], ed. Peter Howard, Nicholas Terpstra, and Riccardo Saccenti. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021, pp. 63-79. 4. Tamar Herzig. “The Coerced Conversion of Convicted Jewish Criminals in Fifteenth-Century Italy,” in Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, ed. Mercedes García-Arenal Rodríguez and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan. Leiden: Brill, 2020, pp. 266-288. 5. Tamar Herzig. “Letters as Sources for Studying Jewish Conversion: The Case of Salomone da Sesso/Ercole de’ Fedeli,” in The Renaissance of Letters: Knowledge and Community in Italy, 13001650, ed. Paula Findlen and Suzanne Sutherland. London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 104-122. 6. Tamar Herzig. “The Bestselling Demonologist: Heinrich Institoris’s Malleus Maleficarum,” in The Science of Demons: Early Modern Thinkers Facing the Devil, ed. Jan Machielsen. London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 53-67. 7. Tamar Herzig. “The Santa viva and the Dragon: Witchcraft and Religion in the Writings of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola,” in Scritture, carismi, istituzioni: Percorsi di vita religiosa in età moderna. Studi per Gabriella Zarri, ed. Concetta Bianca and Anna Scattigno. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2018, pp. 139-150. 8. Tamar Herzig. “The Prosecution of Jews and the Repression of Sodomy in Fifteenth-Century Italy,” in L’Inquisizione Romana, i giudici e gli eretici: Studi in onore di John Tedeschi, ed. Anne Jacobson Schutte and Andrea Del Col. Rome: Viella, 2017, pp. 59-74. 9. Tamar Herzig. “Fear and Devotion in the Writings of Heinrich Institoris,” in Emotions in the History of Witchcraft, ed. Laura Kounine and Michael Ostling [Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions]. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 19-35. 10. Tamar Herzig. “Las Mujeres, la Reforma y la Biblia en Italia,” in Reformas y Contrarreformas en la Europa Católica (siglos XV-XVII), ed. Adriana Valerio and Maria Laura Giordano. Navarre: Editorial Verbo Divino, 2016, pp. 41-51 (in Spanish); 11.* published in German as “Frauen, die Bibel und die italienische Reformbewegung,” in Das katholische Europa im 16.-18. Jahrhundert, ed. Adriana Valerio and Maria Laura Giordano, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2018/19, pp. 41-50; 12.* published in Italian as “Le donne, la Riforma e la Bibbia in Italia,” in Donne e bibbia nella crisi dell’Europa Cattolica (secoli XVI-XVII). Trapani: Il Pozzo di Giacobbe, 2014, pp. 37-48. 13. Tamar Herzig. “Female Mysticism, Heterodoxy, and Reform,” in A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond, ed. James Mixson and Bert Roest [Companions to the Christian Tradition 59]. Leiden: Brill, 2015, pp. 255-282. 14. Tamar Herzig. “Genuine and Fraudulent Stigmatics in Sixteenth-Century Europe,” in Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe, ed. Miriam Eliav-Feldon and Tamar Herzig. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 142-164. 10 15. Tamar Herzig. “Witchcraft Prosecutions in Italy,” in The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America, ed. Brian P. Levack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 (rev. ed. published in 2014), pp. 249-267. 16. Tamar Herzig. “Italian Holy Women against Bohemian Heretics: Catherine of Siena and ‘the Second Catherines’ in the Kingdom of Bohemia,” in Catherine of Siena: The Creation of a Cult, ed. Jeffrey Hamburger and Gabriela Signori [Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, vol. 13]. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013, pp. 315-338. 17. Tamar Herzig. “Introduction,” in Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Honor of Michael Heyd, ed. Asaph Ben-Tov, Yaacov Deutsch, and Tamar Herzig. Leiden: Brill, 2013, pp. 1-9. 18. Tamar Herzig. “Le mistiche domenicane nella lotta antiereticale a cavallo del Quattro e Cinquecento.” In Il velo, la penna e la parola. Le domenicane: Storia, istituzioni e scritture, ed. Gabriella Zarri and Gianni Festa [Biblioteca di Memorie Domenicane 1]. Florence: Nerbini, 2009, pp. 133-149. 19. Tamar Herzig. “Heinrich Kramer e la caccia alle streghe in Italia”. In “Non lasciar vivere la malefica”: Le streghe nei trattati e nei processi (secoli XIV-XVII), ed. Dinora Corsi and Matteo Duni. Florence: Florence University Press, 2008, pp. 167-196. 20. Tamar Herzig. “Leandro Alberti and the Savonarolan Movement in Northern Italy.” In L’Italia dell’inquisitore. Storia e geografia dell’Italia del Cinquecento nella ‘Descrittione’ di Leandro Alberti, ed. Massimo Donattini. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2007, pp. 81-95. Articles in Historical Encyclopedias 1. Tamar Herzig. “Isolani, Isidoro.” In The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition, 4 vols., ed. Richard M. Golden. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006, vol. 2, pp. 573-574. 2. Tamar Herzig. “Rategno, Bernardo of Como,” in The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition, 4 vols., ed. Richard M. Golden. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006, vol. 4, pp. 951952. 3. Tamar Herzig. “Cagnazzo, Giovanni of Taggia,” in The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition, 4 vols., ed. Richard M. Golden, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006, vol. 1, p. 158. 4. Tamar Herzig. “Armellini, Girolamo,” in Dizionario storico dell’Inquisizione, 4 vols., ed. Adriano Prosperi, John Tedeschi, and Vincenzo Lavenia. Pisa: Edizioni della Scuola Normale Superiore, 2011, vol. 1, p. 99. 5. Tamar Herzig. “Gargnano, Domenico da,” in Dizionario storico dell’Inquisizione, 3 vols., ed. Adriano Prosperi, John Tedeschi, and Vincenzo Lavenia. Pisa: Edizioni della Scuola Normale Superiore, 2011, vol. 2, pp. 645-646. 6. Tamar Herzig. “Pico, Gianfrancesco,” in Dizionario storico dell’Inquisizione, 3 vols., ed. Adriano Prosperi, John Tedeschi, and Vincenzo Lavenia. Pisa: Edizioni della Scuola Normale Superiore, 2011, vol. 3, pp. 1208-1209. 7. Tamar Herzig. “Savonarolismo,” in Dizionario storico dell’Inquisizione, 3 vols., ed. Adriano Prosperi, John Tedeschi, and Vincenzo Lavenia. Pisa: Edizioni della Scuola Normale Superiore, 2011, vol. 3, pp. 1387-1389. 8. Tamar Herzig. “Silvestri, Francesco,” in Dizionario storico dell’Inquisizione, 3 vols., ed. Adriano Prosperi, John Tedeschi, and Vincenzo Lavenia. Pisa: Edizioni della Scuola Normale Superiore, 2011, vol. 3, p. 1430. 11 Book Reviews 1. Review of Violence and Justice in Bologna 1250–1700, ed. Sarah Rubin Blanshei, in Renaissance Quarterly 72:4 (December 2019), pp. 1484-1485. 2. Review of Languages of Power in Italy (1300-1600), ed. Daniel Bornstein, Laura Gaffuri, and Brian Jeffrey Maxson, in Sixteenth Century Journal 50:3 (Fall 2019), pp. 851-853. 3. Review of The Arras Witch Treatises, ed. and trans. Andrew Colin Gow, Robert B. Desjardins, and François V. Pageau, in Renaissance Quarterly 70:3 (September 2017), pp. 1148-1149. 4. Review of Donald Weinstein, Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet, in Journal of Modern History 86:2 (June 2014), pp. 461-463. 5. Review of Eric Dursteler, Renegade Women: Gender, Identity, and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean, in Mediterranean Historical Review 29:1 (2014), pp. 103-105. 6. Review of Anna Scattigno, Sposa di Cristo: Mistica e comunità nei ‘Ratti’ di Caterina de’ Ricci. Con il testo inedito del XVI secolo, in Catholic Historical Review 99:1 (January 2013), pp. 156-157. 7. Review of Stefano Dall’Aglio, Savonarola and Savonarolism, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 63 (2012), p. 615. 8. Review of Sharon T. Strocchia, Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence, in Cultural and Social History 9:3 (2012), pp. 478-480. 9. Review of Nicholas Terpstra, Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence, in Journal of Modern History 84:1 (March 2012), pp. 227-229. 10. Review of Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger, Malleus maleficarum, ed. and trans. Christopher S. Mackay, in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 5:1 (Summer 2010), pp. 135-138. 11. Review of Silvia Evangelisti, Nuns: A History of Convent Life, in European History Quarterly 40 (Winter 2010), pp. 132-133. 12. Review of Jeffrey R. Watt, The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent, in Renaissance Quarterly 62:3 (Fall 2009), pp. 964-965. 13. Review of Michael D. Bailey, Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present, in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 3:2 (Fall 2008), pp. 209-212. 14. Review of Lauro Martines, Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence, in Sixteenth Century Journal 37:3 (December 2007), pp. 859-861. Other Publications 1.Tamar Herzig and Zur Shalev, “A Conversation with Lyndal Roper,” Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly 140 (2019), pp. 102-115 [in Hebrew]. 2. Tamar Herzig, “Colomba da Rieti nell’Europa del XV secolo: La domatrice di mosche,” L’Osservatore Romano (November 20, 2015), p. 4 [in Italian]. 12 3. Tamar Herzig, “About this Issue.” Historia [Journal of the Israeli Historical Society] 31 (2014), pp. 7-9 [in Hebrew]. 4. Tamar Herzig, “In the Back Row or Behind a Curtain: Women and Academia in Historical Perspective,” Newsletter of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities 35 (November 2013), pp. 76-81 [in Hebrew]. Interviews in historical podcasts and documentary films 1.“A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy” [in English], New Books Network Podcast. 2. “The Gods of Others”, 4 Podcasts [in Hebrew]: https://www.kan.org.il/Podcast/item.aspx/?pid=12462&fbclid=IwAR3WfAPeZi3SZtHET8eIC9JDLIK1WuSJJIKR01Ej2xPMtLz1nXA6VdiDhc 3.“Nuns and Nunneries after the Reformation,” in Zmanim pocast [in Hebrew]: https://zmanimpodcast.com/2019/05/05/herzig/?fbclid=IwAR2I65MnM5sLt0XPYcjBSzF0_iLwF x8BMIE_EVz0BS6o-TMGmZxwUXs4xfI 4. Interviewed in the documentary TV series “Secularization”, Kan 11, episode 2 [in Hebrew]. 5. Interviewed in TAU Unbound, episode 47 [in English]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=858XJPsZs0s&list=PLNiWLB_wsOg41hQFVQB5vwPRdj8 _GpgDc&index=1 Academic Service at Tel Aviv University Head of Ad-Hoc Promotion Committee, Faculty of the Arts. 2023-2024 Head of Transdisciplinary Search Committee, Faculty of Humanities. 2022 Vice Dean for Research, Faculty of Humanities. 2021-[Feb. 2024] Member of TAU’s Research Committee. 2021-2024 Member of the University Committee on International Academic Ranking. 2021-2022 Elected Member of TAU’s Senate. 2020-2024 Member of Appointments Committe for the School of History and the School 2020-2023 of Jewish Studies. Member of 6 Internal Grants and Awards Screening Committees. 2020-2022 Member of TAU’s School of Historical Studies’ Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2019-2020 Committee. Alternate Member of TAU’s PhD Students’ Superior Committee. 2019-2020 Member of the Faculty of Humanities Core Curriculum Committee. 2019 Member of the Department of History’s M.A. Committee. 2019-2020 Member of the Nominating Committee for the Head of the Department of 2016, 2018 History. Member of the Department of History’s Development Commitee. 2017-2020 Head of Ad-Hoc Promotion and Tenure Committee, Faculty of Humanities. 2017 Member of Search Committee. 2017 TAU Coordinator of the faculty exchange program with the University of St. 2014-2021 Andrews, UK. Director, Morris E. Curiel Institute for European Studies. 2014-2021 Member of the Academic Committee of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for 2014-2021 International and Regional Studies. Graduate Advisor for the Early Modern History Section. 2014-2015 Faculty of Humanities Representative at the University’s Committee for 2014-2015 Promoting Gender Equality in Tel Aviv University. 13 2011-2012 2011-2013 2011-2013 2010-2012 Member of the Committee for Improving the Working Conditions in the Faculty of Humanities. Undergraduate Advisor, Department of History. Member of the Department of History’s Teaching Committee. Member of the Steering Committee for the Research and Writing Skills Workshop for Undergraduate Students in History. Supervision of Graduate Students Current advisees: Inbar Dabull, Ph.D thesis on Women and Charitable Initiatives in Medicean Tuscany (awarded TAU’s School of History Excellency Fellowship). Omer Even-Paz, M.A. thesis on Artistic Representations of Female Slavery in Europe and the Americas (awarded TAU’s School of History Excellency Fellowship and TAU’s Pedagogica Scholarship for Outstanding M.A. Students). Lisa Molina, M.A. thesis on Enslaved Turkish Women in Early Modern Malta (awarded TAU’s School of History Excellency Fellowship). Yasmine Segol, M.A. thesis on Female Enslavement in Early Modern France. Past Advisees Didi Atsmon, M.A. thesis on Black Africans in Renaissance Courts (awarded TAU’s Pedagogica Scholarship for Outstanding M.A. Students) (submitted in December 2023). Maayan Aner, M.A. thesis on Gender Crossing in Early Modern Spain [joint supervision with Prof. Iris Rachamimov] (approved Jan. 2021). Ori Ben-Shalom, M.A. thesis on Medicine and Religious Reform in Carlo Borromeo’s Milan (approved July 2020). Inbar Dabull, M.A. thesis on Daily Life in the Convent of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere (approved Oct. 2017). Shai Zamir, M.A. thesis on Gender and Anti-Jewish Polemics at the Trent Blood Libel of 1475 (approved Oct. 2015). Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, M.A. thesis on Divine Inspiration and Earthly Authority: Maria de Agreda’s Mística ciudad de Dios [joint supervision with Prof. Miriam Eliav-Feldon] (approved Aug. 2012). Oz Michaeli, M.A. thesis on Prophetic Discourse in the Writings of Girolamo Savonarola (approved Oct. 2011). Post-doctoral supervision: Dr. Claudia Geremia, post-doctoral research project on Enslaved African Women, Knowledge, and Material Culture in the Middle Atlantic (1500s-1700s) (awarded TAU’s Yavetz-Lessing post-doctoral fellowship for 2023/24); 14 Dr. Martina Mampieri, post-doctoral research project on Isaia Sonneh’s Intellectual Biography, (post-doctoral mentor appointed by the Director of the Hebrew University’s Martin Buber Society of Fellows, 2022/23); Dr. Katie Lindeman, post-doctoral research project on Masculinity and Inquisitorial Activity in the Dominican Order (awarded TAU’s Thomas Arnold post-doctoral fellowship for 2018/19). Academic Service for Other Institutions and Organizations (select) * Times Higher Education: Invited Participant in THE 2024 Global Academic Reputation Survey in the Field of History. * QS Global Academic Survey: Invited Participant in the QS Global Academic Reputation Survey in the Humanities. * Renaissance Society of America: Discipline Representative for Religion, 2014-2021; Committee on Organization Disciplines, 2021; Fields Implementation Committee, 2022; Board of Directors Member and Interim Membership Chair, 2022-present. * Reviewer of a new academic program in Romance Studies for the Israeli Council for Higher Education; * Dissertation Advisory Committee Member, Italian Studies, McGill University, Canada; * Dissertation Advisory Committee Member, Art History, Ben Gurion University, Israel. * Member of the Committee for Advancing Women in Israeli Universities, Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology; * Committee Member, Ad-Hoc Promotion Committee in Jewish History, University of Haifa; * Ph.D Thesis Examiner for the Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Hungary; * M.A. Thesis Examiner for the School of Historical Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. * M.A Thesis Examiner for the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia. Ad-hoc Academic Reviews and Evaluations (select) Reviews of Article and Book Manuscripts: Princeton University Press; Harvard University Press; Oxford University Press; Magnes Press of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Palgrave Macmillan; History Compass; Sixteenth Century Journal; Renaissance Quarterly; Renaissance Studies; Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme; I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance; Viator; Oxford Bibliographies Online; Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft; Journal of Homosexuality; Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History; Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly; Archivio Italiano per la Storia della Pietà; Genesis: Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche; Women, Language, Literature in Italy; Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes; Culture and History; 15 Quaderni d’italianistica; Journal of Early Modern History. Reviews of Scientific Grants and Fellowships (select): Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto; Pumby: A New Horizon for Interdisciplinary Research in Israel; German-Israeli Foundation (GIF); The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Center for Humanities (Mandel Scholion); Israel Science Foundation (ISF); LMU-TAU Collaboration Grant; The Herczeg Institute on Aging, TAU. Membership in ad-hoc selection committees for prizes and awards: *Mediterranean Historical Review Best Article Prize Committee (2024) *Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research Committee Member (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023). *Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Ministry of Science and Technology “Falling Walls Lab” competition (2018). *Israel Science Foundation Publications Grant Committee Member (2016). *Selecting Committee of finalists for the Young Academy of Israel (Member, 2015; Head, 2016). *“I Tatti Best Essay Prize in Renaissance Studies” (Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) (2014). 2023 20212019 2018 2018 2016 2016 2015 Conference and Workshop Organization: Organizer of the International Conference on Gender and Enslavement in Mediterranean Europe, 1250-1800, funded by the ISF Workshops Grant and the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies’ Bruno Award and held at the IIAS in Jerusalem in Sept. 2023. Member of the local organizing committee, XXIVth International Congress of Historical Sciences, Comité International des Sciences Historiques (CISH)/ International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS) in Jerusalem in 2026. Member of the organizing committee of the Annual Conference of the Israeli Association for Early Modern Studies, held at Tel Aviv University in April 2019. Organizer of the graduate students’ workshop with Prof. Mercedes García-Arenal (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [CSIC], Spain), funded by the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in Tel Aviv University in October 2018. Co-organizer (with Dr. Alessio Assonitis) of the International Conference on The Medici and the Jews: Religion, Culture, and Urban Strategies in Early Modern Florence (funded by the Medici Archive Project, TAU’s Curiel Institute for European Studies and TAU’s School of Historical Studies) at Tel Aviv University in June 2018. Organizer of the graduate students’ workshop with Prof. Diane Ghirardo (University of Southern California), funded by the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), held at Tel Aviv University in May-June 2016. Co-organizer (with Profs. Katherine Bentz and Elena Calvillo) of the International Conference on Rivalries, Social Networks, and Cultural Production in Early Modern Italy, funded by TAU’s Curiel Institute for European Studies and the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), held at Tel Aviv University in May-June 2016. Co-organizer (with Dr. Ana Marques) of the International Conference on Portugal and Its Culture in the Age of Colonial Expansion, sponsored by Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Portugal and TAU’s Curiel Institute for European Studies, in November 2015. 16 2015 2015 2015 2015 2015 2013 2012 2010 2020/2021 Co-organizer (with Profs. Stefano Villani and Bernard Cooperman) of the two joint Tel Aviv University-University of Maryland workshops on Behavioral Practice, Social Boundaries and the Marking of Identity in the Early Modern Era, held at TAU in June 2015 and at the University of Maryland in September 2015. Co-organizer (with Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten) of the Israel Historical Society’s Doctoral Students’ Workshop with Prof. Caroline Bynum at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies. Member of the organizing committee of the German-Israeli symposium on The Future of Research in a Digital Era, held at the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Organizer of the graduate students’ workshop with Dr. Alessio Assonitis (Director of the Medici Archive Project, Florence) on Researching Early Modern Archives held in Ma’aleh Hachamisha in February 2015. Member of the scientific advisory board of the Israeli Historical Society’s Early Modern History Workshop, held in Ma’aleh Hachamisha in February 2015. Chair of the organizing committee of the National Conference on Gender and Academic Career in Israeli Universities, held at the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Co-organizer (with Prof. Miriam Eliav-Feldon) of the International Conference on Cultural and Religious Dissimulation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, held at TAU. Member of the organizing committee of the Annual Israeli Medieval Studies Conference, held at TAU. Organization of Conference Panels (since 2015) Organizer of four panels for the 66th annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Philadelphia in April 2020 (canceled due to the COVID-19 crisis; 3 panels rolled over to the RSA 67th annual meeting in 2021 [held online]). 2019 Organizer of two panels (with Unn Falkeid and Anna Wainwright) on The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics, and Reform in Renaissance Italy and of three panels on New Approaches to the History of Sanctity (with Emily Michelson and Katrina Olds) for the 65th annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Toronto in March 2019. 2018 Organizer of three panels (on Reconsidering Tuscan Convents in the Age of Catholic Reform; Mendicant Influence on Renaissance Culture and Politics; The Body and the Divine in the Italian Renaissance [with Marco Piana]) for the 64th annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in New Orleans in March 2018. 2017 Organizer of four panels (on Conversion and Heterodoxy in Early Modern Europe; Priests Behaving Badly: Clerical Misconduct in Counter-Reformation Europe; In Memory of Donald Weinstein I: New Directions in Savonarola Studies [with Stefano Dall’Aglio]; In Memory of Donald Weinstein II [with Stefano Dall’Aglio]; Religion and Society in Renaissance Italy) for the 63rd annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago in March 2017. 2016 Organizer of five panels (on Women and Religious Devotion in Renaissance Ferrara; Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola Reconsidered; New Perspectives on Renaissance Demonology; Heresy, Superstition, and Observant Reform in the Fifteenth Century; and Religious Violence and Its Critics) for the 62nd annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Boston in March 2016. January 2024 Lectures Presented in Conferences and Workshops (since 2015) Invited discussant, “Did Women Have a Renaissance? Joan Kelly’s Question Almost 50 Years Later” roundtable of the Society for Italian 17 Historical Studies and presenter, “Renaissance Enslavements” (Presidential Session), American Historical Association, San Francisco. June 2023 Invited lecture on “Reform and Resistance,” Medieval Matters: Conference in Honor of Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University, London, UK. June 2023 Invited lecture on “The Forced Migration of Enslaved Women to Early Modern Europe,” Forced to Flee: Migrazioni forzate nel Mediterraneo tra storia e rappresentazione, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy. May 2023 Invited lecture, “Slaves and Holy Women in Early Modern Italy,” Saints and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Conference in Honor of Gábor Klaniczay, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. November 2022 Invited lecture (alongside Harvey Hames, Rector of Ben Gurion University of the Negev) to mark the occasion of Prof. Jeremy Cohen’s reception of the Rothschild Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. November 2022 Invited lecture on “Attraction denied: Controversies Surrounding the Monachization of Baptized Jews,” Affinity and Distance Workshop of the Recognizing Religions project, NYU Abu Dhabi. June 2022 Keynote lecture on “Charity, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Communal Efforts to Redeem Jewish Captives,” PIMO - COST training school Moving Goods for Charity: Community Economies Across the Mediterranean (15th-19th centuries), Bologna, Italy. April 2022 “In What Ways Did Consent Matter in Religious Conversions?” Historicizing Consent: What Did it Mean to Agree in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World?, Harvard University (invited lecture). October 2021 Keynote lecture on “Foreign Jewish Slave Women and Local Communities in Early Modern Italy,” International Conference on The Many Faces of Early Modern Italian Jewry, University of Potsdam, Germany (invited lecture). October 2021 “Commemorating Early Modern Slavery,” Religion and Culture in Early Modern Italy, UC Berkeley (invited lecture). October 2021 “Female Leadership in the Savonarolan Movement,” International Conference on Radical Religious Communities in Premodern Societies, Tábor, Czech Republic (invited lecture). May 2021 “A Convert’s Tale,” Saecula: Questioni di storia religiosa dal tardo medioevo all’età contemporanea seminar, Università di Bologna, Italy (invited lecture). April 2021 “Female Slavery and Jewish Conversion in Early Modern Italy,” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (online). 18 February 2021 “Apostates and Impostors in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean” (joint workshop with Hussein Fancy), Recognizing Religion(s): The Cultural Dynamics of Religious Encounters seminar, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University and NYU Abu Dhabi (invited lecture). November 2020 “Religious Conversion and the Policing of Sexuality in Renaissance Italy,” Early Modern World Seminar, convened by Giuseppe Marcocci and Lyndal Roper, University of Oxford, UK (invited lecture). February 2020 “A Convert’s Tale,” Gray Boyce Memorial Lecture in Medieval History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Il (invited lecture). January 2020 “Jews, Converts, and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy,” International Conference on Imagining the Renaissance/ Defining the Jews, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem (invited lecture). December 2019 “From Tunis to Tuscany: Gender, Religion, and Global Slavery in the Early Modern Era,” Joint Bonn University-TAU Workshop on What is Global About Global Enslavemet?, TAU. November 2019 “Observant Reformers and Jewish Conversion in Renaissance Italy,” International Conference on L’Observance, Entre normalisation et répression (Europe, XVe-XVIe s.), École française de Rome, Italy (invited lecture). November 2019 “I gioiellieri di Lucrezia Borgia,” International Conference on Lucretia Estensis de Borgia: Il potere al femminile, Modena, Italy (invited lecture, in Italian). June 2019 Keynote lecture on “Christians, Jews, and Converts in Renaissance Italy,” presented at the University of Tübingen’s International Conference on Religious Encounters: Coexistence, Dialogue, Conflict in Jerusalem (invited lecture). June 2019 “Converting Female Slaves in Early Modern Italy,” International Workshop on Italy and Bilad al-Shām during the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods: Rivalry, Accommodation and Conversion of Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities, Centre de Recherche Français, Jerusalem (invited lecture). November 2018 “Birgitta of Sweden’s Impact on Later Italian Visionaries,” International Workshop on The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden, Norwegian Institute in Rome (invited lecture). June 2018 “Performing Conversion in Renaissance Ferrara,” International Workshop on Renaissance Ferrara: New Directions and Interpretations, The Warburg Institute, University of London (invited lecture). 19 June 2018 “The Origins of a Convert Artist amidst Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Pasts,” International Conference on The Renaissance of Origins: Beginnings, Genesis, and Creation in the Art of the 15th-16th Centuries, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris (invited lecture). June 2018 “From the Ghetto to the Convent: Ex-Jewish Nuns in Grand Ducal Florence,” Joint Medici Archive Project-TAU Conference on The Medici and the Jews: Religion, Culture, and Urban Strategies in Early Modern Florence, TAU. March 2018 “Florentine Convents as Spaces of Conversion,” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans. November 2017 “Girolamo Savonarola and the Conversion of the Jews,” International Conference on Firenze nella crisi religiosa nel Cinquecento, University of Florence, Italy (invited lecture). October 2017 “Luther and Female Monasticism,” 500 Years to the Reformation: Luther, Protestantism, and the Holy Land conference, Yad Ben Tzvi Institute, Jerusalem (invited lecture, in Hebrew). May 2017 “The Spectacle of Conversion: The Baptismal Oration of a Jewish Convert to Christianity in Renaissance Ferrara,” International Workshop on L’identità minacciata—La diversità minacciosa, Centro Italo-Tedesco per l’Eccelenza Europea, Menaggio, Italy (invited lecture). May 2017 “Nuns as Agents of Conversion in Early Modern Italy,” International Conference on Agents of Conversion, BGU, Israel (invited lecture). April 2017 Roundtable discussant on “New Perspectives on Isabella d’Este’s Letters across Disciplines,” sponsored by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, Renaissance Society of America, Chicago. April 2017 “Savonarola, Jewish Conversion, and Monastic Reform,” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago. January 2017 “Donne mistiche nell’Italia del Rinascimento,” International Conference on ‘Contemplata aliis tradere’: Scritture domanicane nei secoli XIII-XV, Rome (invited lecture, in Italian). January 2017 “Jews, Witches, and Converts in Renaissance Italy,” Joint TAUUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison Conference Place, Time, History, TAU (invited lecture). November 2016 “The Forced Conversion of Convicted Jewish Criminals in FifteenthCentury Italy,” International Conference on Coming to Terms with Forced Conversion, Consejos Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain (invited lecture). August 2016 “Nuns, Demons, and Jewish Conversion in Post-Tridentine Italy,” Annual Meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Bruges, Belgium. 20 May 2016 “Letters and the Problem of Jewish Conversion to Christianity in Renaissance Italy,” International Workshop on The Renaissance of Letters: Knowledge and Community in Italy, 1300-1650, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University (invited lecture). May 2016 “Art, Intra-Communal Rivalry, and Jewish Conversion in Renaissance Ferrara,” International Conference on Rivalries, Social Networks, and Cultural Production in Early Modern Italy (sponsored by the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund at Villa I Tatti), TAU. April 2016 “Eleonora of Aragon and Jewish Conversion to Christianity,” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston. April 2016 Respondent, “New Perspectives on Renaissance Demonology” panel, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston. [February 2024 upcoming] Additional Invited Lectures and Seminars (since 2015) Invited Roundtable discussant, “Slavery in Medici Tuscany,” Medici Archive Project Forum. January 2024 “Female Slavery in Early Modern Italy” (invited seminar followed by a lecture), Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. January 2024 “Domestic Slavery in Renaissance Italy,” Department of History, Stanford University (invited lecture). January 2024 “Slavery and Sexual Violence in Early Modern Italy and Beyond,” Gender History Workshop, Stanford University (invited seminar). July 2023 “Archival Violence and the History of Enslavement,” Queen Mary University, London, UK (invited masterclass). July 2023 “Domestic Slavery in Early Modern Italy,” Global Encounters Roundtable in Modern History, University of Tübingen, Germany (invited lecture). June 2023 “I confini della salvezza: Schiavitù, conversione e libertà in età moderna,” seminar on Serena Di Nepi’s book, Istituto Sangalli per la storia e le culture religiose, Florence, Italy (invited seminar). March 2023 “Schiavitù femminile nell’Europa mediterranea di età moderna.” Dipartimento SARAS special seminar on Women’s History, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy (invited seminar, in Italian). July 2022 “Female Enslavement in Mediterranean Europe from the late Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century,” Medieval History Colloquium, University of Erfurt, Germany (invited seminar). 21 May 2022 Response to Ehud Toledano’s lecture, “Enslavement in Ottoman and Islamic Societies and Beyond: A Comparative Perspective,” Annual Seminar on Labor, School of Cultural Studies, TAU (in Hebrew). May 2022 “Jews, Christians, and Converts in Renaissance Italy,” Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters seminar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (in Hebrew). December 2021 “Enslavement, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern Italy,” History colloquium, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (in Hebrew). October 2021 “Challenges and Restrospectives: The Historical Society of Israel Approaching its Centennial,” presented at the Deutscher Historikertag, Münich. March 2021 “Dante in Early Renaissance Florence,” Trattatello in laude di Dante webinar, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Tel Aviv (in Hebrew). January 2021 “The Life of a Jewish Artist in the Renaissance,” The Medici Archive Project online lecture series. November 2019 “Salomone da Sesso, orafo di Lucrezia Borgia,” Museo Casa Romei, Ferrara, Italy (in Italian). May 2019 “Renaissance Prophetesses and Female Mystics,” University of Oslo, Norway (invited lecture followed by a seminar). January 2019 “Women, Mysticism, and Reform Movements in Renaissance Italy,” Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany (invited lecture followed by a seminar). February 2017 “Demonic Possession and Religious Conversion,” presented at the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem (in Hebrew). July 2016 “Letters and Registers in the Este and Gonzaga Archives,” Archival Studies Seminar, The Medici Archive Project, Florence, Italy. December 2015 “Teresa of Ávila and the Tradition of Women’s Writing in Convents,” Symposium on Teresa of Ávila’s Las Moradas, Instituto Cervantes, Tel Aviv (in Hebrew). November 2015 “Beata Colomba: Santità ed eresia nel contesto europeo,” presented in the lecture series Beata Colomba e il suo tempo, Perugia, Italy [an abridged version of the lecture was published in the Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano (November 20, 2015), p. 4].