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Ada Palmer

Associate Professor of History and the College Ada Palmer

Area of Study

Department of History

Ada Palmer

Associate Professor of History and the College

Professor Palmer's research interests include early modern Europe; the Renaissance, with a focus on Italy; the Reformation; longue-durée intellectual and cultural history; postclassical reception of classical philosophy; Renaissance humanism; history of the book, printing, and reading; censorship and information control especially during information revolutions; history of science, religion, atheism, deism, heresy, and heterodoxy; intellectual continuities from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment; and the reception of Epicureanism, atomism, Stoicism, Skepticism, Platonism, and Neoplatonism.

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