Judith C. Brown

Judith C. Brown is a historian and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the Minerva Schools at KGI in San Francisco. A specialist of the Italian Renaissance, she is considered a pioneer in the study of the history of sexuality whose work explored the earliest recorded examples of lesbian relationships in European history.

Academic career

Brown studied for a B.A. and M.A. at the University of California, Berkeley and completed a Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University.[1]

She was Dean of the School of Humanities at Rice University, and a Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Wesleyan University.[1] She is also currently Emeritus Professor of History at Wesleyan University.[2]

Publications
  • In the Shadow of Florence - Provincial Society in Renaissance Pescia. Oxford University Press. 1982. ISBN 9780195029932.
  • Immodest Acts - The life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy. Oxford University Press. 1986. ISBN 0-19-504225-5.
  • Gender and society in Renaissance Italy. Longman. 1988. ISBN 9780582293267. (co-edited with Robert Charles Davis)
  • Medici Women: The Making of a Dynasty in Grand Ducal Tuscany. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. 2015. ISBN 978-0-7727-2180-8. (co-edited with Giovanna Benadusi)

References
  1. "Arts and Humanities | Minerva Schools at KGI". www.minerva.kgi.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  2. "Judith C. Brown - Faculty, Wesleyan University". www.wesleyan.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
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