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'''Eric R. Dursteler''' is a professor of history at [[Brigham Young University]] (BYU) and the current chair of the BYU history department. He is a lecturer and seminar presenter, and has specialized in the history of early modern Italy, the history of the Mediteranean including the early modern Mediteranean, and the history of food. He has authored, edited or reviewed multiple published works, including scholarly books about medieval and early modern Mediterranean, Venetian history, has authored encyclopedic entries, numerous book chapters, and journal reviews.


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Dursteler holds both a bachelor and [[MA (degree)|MA]] degree from BYU, and an MA and [[PhD]] from [[Brown University]]. He completed his PhD in 2000.<ref name=BYUBio>{{cite web | url=http://www.heraldextra.com/news/provo-growing-up/article_46df219b-50fd-56a8-9fe0-ac7af11ea0b7.html | title=Eric Dursteler|publisher=Brigham Young University|accessdate=December 28, 2017}}</ref> He resides with his wife, Whitney Dursteler, and their three children in Provo, UT.<ref name=DH>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldextra.com/news/provo-growing-up/article_46df219b-50fd-56a8-9fe0-ac7af11ea0b7.html|title=Provo:Growing Up|author=Rashae Ophus Johnson|publisher=Provo Daily Herald|date=December 18, 2005}}</ref>
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'''Eric R. Dursteler''' (born 1964) is a professor of history at [[Brigham Young University]] (BYU) and chair of the BYU history department. He is a lecturer and seminar presenter, and has specialized in the history of early modern Italy, the history of the Mediterranean including the early modern Mediterranean, and the history of food. He has authored, edited or reviewed multiple published works, including scholarly books about medieval and early modern Mediterranean, Venetian history, has authored encyclopedic entries, numerous book chapters, and journal reviews.

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== Education and personal life ==
Dursteler is a member of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], and served as a church missionary in Italy.<ref>biographical note connected with ''Mormons in the Piazza''</ref>

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Dursteler holds both a bachelor and [[MA (degree)|MA]] degree from BYU, and an MA and [[PhD]] from [[Brown University]]. He completed his PhD in 2000.<ref name=BYUBio>{{cite web | url=http://www.heraldextra.com/news/provo-growing-up/article_46df219b-50fd-56a8-9fe0-ac7af11ea0b7.html | title=Eric Dursteler|publisher=Brigham Young University|accessdate=December 28, 2017}}</ref>

He resides with his wife, Whitney Dursteler, in Provo, UT, and has three adult children.<ref name=DH>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldextra.com/news/provo-growing-up/article_46df219b-50fd-56a8-9fe0-ac7af11ea0b7.html|title=Provo:Growing Up|author=Rashae Ophus Johnson|publisher=Provo Daily Herald|date=December 18, 2005}}</ref>


==Academic and professional career==
==Academic and professional career==
Dursteler has been a faculty member of the BYU department of history since 1998.<ref name=BYUBio/> He has held a [[Fulbright Fellowship]], a [[National Endowment for the Humanities|National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship]] and a [[Villa I Tatti|Villa I Tatti fellowship]] from the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2006-2007).
Dursteler has been a faculty member of the BYU department of history since 1998,<ref name=BYUBio/> and served as chair of the BYU history department from 2016 to 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/FacultyPage/erd4 |title=BYU faculty bio page for Dursteler |access-date=2017-12-30 |archive-date=2017-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230230500/https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/FacultyPage/erd4 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He has held a [[Fulbright Fellowship]], a [[National Endowment for the Humanities|National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship]] and a [[Villa I Tatti|Villa I Tatti fellowship]] from the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2006-2007). In 2020 he was awarded a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute.


He is the editor for News on the Rialto, "an annual publication devoted to providing an informational point of reference for scholars working on all aspects of Venetian studies, including the political, economic, social, religious, artistic, architectural, musical and literary history of the city, its overseas empire, and its mainland territories."<ref name=Rialto>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsontherialto.com/editorial.php|title=News on the Rialto|accessdate=December 28, 2017}}</ref> He is also the book review editor for the ''Journal of Early Modern History'',<ref name=Brill>{{cite web|url=http://www.brill.com/journal-early-modern-history#EDIBOA_1|title=Editorial Board|work=Journal of Early Modern History|publisher=Brill|accessdate=December 28, 2017}}</ref> and serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board for the ''Journal of Mediterranean Studies.''<ref name=JMS>{{cite web|url=https://www.um.edu.mt/medinst/journal|title=International Editorial Advisory Board|publisher=University of Malta|accessdate=December 28, 2017}}</ref> He is a member of the Founding Editorial Board for Oxford Bibliographies Renaissance and Reformation.<ref name=OxfordR&R>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/page/renaissance-and-reformation|title=Renaissance and Reformation|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=December 28, 2017}}</ref>
He is the editor for News on the Rialto, "an annual publication devoted to providing an informational point of reference for scholars working on all aspects of Venetian studies, including the political, economic, social, religious, artistic, architectural, musical and literary history of the city, its overseas empire, and its mainland territories."<ref name=Rialto>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsontherialto.com/editorial.php|title=News on the Rialto|accessdate=December 28, 2017}}</ref> He was also formerly the book review editor for the ''Journal of Early Modern History'',<ref name=Brill>{{cite web|url=http://www.brill.com/journal-early-modern-history#EDIBOA_1|title=Editorial Board|work=Journal of Early Modern History|publisher=Brill|accessdate=December 28, 2017}}</ref> and serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board for the ''Journal of Mediterranean Studies.''<ref name=JMS>{{cite web|url=https://www.um.edu.mt/medinst/journal|title=International Editorial Advisory Board|publisher=University of Malta|accessdate=December 28, 2017}}</ref> He is a member of the Founding Editorial Board for Oxford Bibliographies Renaissance and Reformation.<ref name=OxfordR&R>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/page/renaissance-and-reformation|title=Renaissance and Reformation|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=December 28, 2017}}</ref>


==Selected works==
==Selected works==
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===Books===
===Books===
*Dursteler, Eric R. (2008), "Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean". John Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9780801891052
*Dursteler, Eric R. (2006), Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Johns Hopkins University Press, {{ISBN|9780801891052}}
*Dursteler, Eric R. (2011), "Renegade Women: Gender, Identity and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediteranean". John Hopkins Unversity Press, ISBN 9781421403489
*Dursteler, Eric R. (2011), Renegade Women: Gender, Identity and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Johns Hopkins University Press, {{ISBN|9781421403489}}
*Dursteler, Eric R., editor (2013), A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797. Brill's Companions to European History, Volume 4, DOI: 10.1163/9789004252523
*Dursteler, Eric R., editor (2013), A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797. Brill's Companions to European History, Volume 4, DOI: 10.1163/9789004252523
*Dursteler, Eric R.; O'Connell, Monique (2016) "The Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon". John Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9781421419015
*Dursteler, Eric R.; O'Connell, Monique (2016), "The Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon". Johns Hopkins University Press, {{ISBN|9781421419015}}
*[[James A. Toronto]], Eric R. Dursteler and Michael W. Homer (2017), ''Mormon in the Piazza: History of the Latter-day Saints in Italy''. Provo and Salt Lake City: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center in cooperation with Deseret Book. {{ISBN|978-1-9443-9410-3}}.
*Dursteler, Eric R., editor and translator (2018), In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Ambassadorial Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2018. {{ISBN|978-0772721914}}


===Book Chapters===
===Book chapters===
*"To Piety or Conversion More Prone? Gender and Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean"<ref name=Ditchfield>{{cite book|title=Conversions: Gender & Religious Change in Early Modern Europe|editors=Simon Ditchfield; Helen Smith|pages=21-40|publisher=University of Manchester Press|date=2017}}</ref>
*"To Piety or Conversion More Prone? Gender and Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean"<ref name=Ditchfield>{{cite book |title=Conversions: Gender & Religious Change in Early Modern Europe |editor1-first=Simon |editor1-last=Ditchfield |editor2-first=Helen |editor2-last=Smith |pages=21–40 |publisher=University of Manchester Press |date=2017}}</ref>
*"Fleeing "The Vomit of Infidelity":Borders, Conversion and Muslim Women's Agency in the Early Modern Mediterranean"<ref name=IUP>{{cite book|url=http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807792|title=Living in the Ottoman Realm: Sultans, Subjects, and Elites.|publisher=Indiana University Press|pages=182-193|ISBN=978-0-253-01948-6|date=2016}}</ref>
*"Fleeing "The Vomit of Infidelity": Borders, Conversion and Muslim Women's Agency in the Early Modern Mediterranean"<ref name=IUP>{{cite book|url=http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807792|title=Living in the Ottoman Realm: Sultans, Subjects, and Elites.|publisher=Indiana University Press|pages=182–193|ISBN=978-0-253-01948-6|date=2016}}</ref>

== Awards ==

* 2022: Research Fellow, [[Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study]], Netherlands<ref>{{Cite web|title=News|url=https://nias.knaw.nl/whats-going-on/news/|access-date=2021-12-05|website=NIAS|language=en-GB}}</ref>
* 2020: Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship, [[European University Institute]], Italy
* 2006: Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, [[National Endowment for the Humanities]], USA
* 2006: Committee to Rescue Italian Art Fellowship, [[Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies]], Italy
* 1996: Fulbright Fellowship, [[Fulbright Commission]], USA


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Latest revision as of 06:50, 13 March 2024

Eric R. Dursteler
Born1964
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Historian, author
Known forAuthor of Mediterranean and Venetian history
SpouseWhitney Campbell Dursteler
Children3
Academic background
EducationMA, PhD
Alma materBrigham Young University
Brown University

Eric R. Dursteler (born 1964) is a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and chair of the BYU history department. He is a lecturer and seminar presenter, and has specialized in the history of early modern Italy, the history of the Mediterranean including the early modern Mediterranean, and the history of food. He has authored, edited or reviewed multiple published works, including scholarly books about medieval and early modern Mediterranean, Venetian history, has authored encyclopedic entries, numerous book chapters, and journal reviews.

Education and personal life[edit]

Dursteler is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served as a church missionary in Italy.[1]

Dursteler holds both a bachelor and MA degree from BYU, and an MA and PhD from Brown University. He completed his PhD in 2000.[2]

He resides with his wife, Whitney Dursteler, in Provo, UT, and has three adult children.[3]

Academic and professional career[edit]

Dursteler has been a faculty member of the BYU department of history since 1998,[2] and served as chair of the BYU history department from 2016 to 2019.[4] He has held a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and a Villa I Tatti fellowship from the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2006-2007). In 2020 he was awarded a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute.

He is the editor for News on the Rialto, "an annual publication devoted to providing an informational point of reference for scholars working on all aspects of Venetian studies, including the political, economic, social, religious, artistic, architectural, musical and literary history of the city, its overseas empire, and its mainland territories."[5] He was also formerly the book review editor for the Journal of Early Modern History,[6] and serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Mediterranean Studies.[7] He is a member of the Founding Editorial Board for Oxford Bibliographies Renaissance and Reformation.[8]

Selected works[edit]

Dursteler has authored numerous books, book chapters, encyclopedic entries, articles and reviews, some of which include:

Books[edit]

  • Dursteler, Eric R. (2006), Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9780801891052
  • Dursteler, Eric R. (2011), Renegade Women: Gender, Identity and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9781421403489
  • Dursteler, Eric R., editor (2013), A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797. Brill's Companions to European History, Volume 4, DOI: 10.1163/9789004252523
  • Dursteler, Eric R.; O'Connell, Monique (2016), "The Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon". Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9781421419015
  • James A. Toronto, Eric R. Dursteler and Michael W. Homer (2017), Mormon in the Piazza: History of the Latter-day Saints in Italy. Provo and Salt Lake City: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center in cooperation with Deseret Book. ISBN 978-1-9443-9410-3.
  • Dursteler, Eric R., editor and translator (2018), In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Ambassadorial Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2018. ISBN 978-0772721914

Book chapters[edit]

  • "To Piety or Conversion More Prone? Gender and Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean"[9]
  • "Fleeing "The Vomit of Infidelity": Borders, Conversion and Muslim Women's Agency in the Early Modern Mediterranean"[10]

Awards[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ biographical note connected with Mormons in the Piazza
  2. ^ a b "Eric Dursteler". Brigham Young University. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  3. ^ Rashae Ophus Johnson (December 18, 2005). "Provo:Growing Up". Provo Daily Herald.
  4. ^ "BYU faculty bio page for Dursteler". Archived from the original on 2017-12-30. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
  5. ^ "News on the Rialto". Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  6. ^ "Editorial Board". Journal of Early Modern History. Brill. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  7. ^ "International Editorial Advisory Board". University of Malta. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  8. ^ "Renaissance and Reformation". Oxford University Press. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  9. ^ Ditchfield, Simon; Smith, Helen, eds. (2017). Conversions: Gender & Religious Change in Early Modern Europe. University of Manchester Press. pp. 21–40.
  10. ^ Living in the Ottoman Realm: Sultans, Subjects, and Elites. Indiana University Press. 2016. pp. 182–193. ISBN 978-0-253-01948-6.
  11. ^ "News". NIAS. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
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