John Jeffries Martin

John Jeffries Martin grew up in St. Simons, Georgia and attended St. Paul's School, a boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire.[1] He earned a PhD from Harvard University in 1982.[1]

Martin was the chair of the history department at Trinity University from 2004 to 2007.[1] He is a history professor at Duke University, where he is the chair of the history department.[1]

Martin is the author of two books about Venice and the Italian Renaissance. He has edited three more books about the same topics. In Venice’s Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City, Martin writes about the European Protestants who moved to Venice and were falsely accused of heresy by Venetians in the 16th century.[2] Reviewing it for The American Historical Review, Professor William Monter of Northwestern University described it as a "useful, readable and original book."[2]

• Martin, John Jeffries; Romano, Dennis, eds. (2000). Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-state, 1297-1797. Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801873089. OCLC 749003829.
• Martin, John Jeffries, ed. (2003). The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415260633. OCLC 919932726.
• Martin, John Jeffries (2003). Venice’s Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City. Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801878770. OCLC 211838998.
• Delph, Ronald K.; Fontaine, Michelle; Martin, John Jeffries, eds. (2006). Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestations. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. ISBN 9781931112581. OCLC 909633576.
• Martin, John Jeffries (2007). The Renaissance World. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781136894046. OCLC 914570318.