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==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 serves as chair of the BYU history department.<ref>[https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/FacultyPage/erd4 BYU faculty bio page for Dursteler]</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).


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 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>

Dursteler is currently chair of the BYU history department.<ref>[https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/FacultyPage/erd4 BYU faculty bio page for Dursteler]</ref>


==Selected works==
==Selected works==

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Eric R. Dursteler
PhD
File:Dursteler October 2017.jpg
2017
Born1964
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Historian, lecturer, presenter, author, book and journal editor/reviewer
Known forAuthor of Mediterranean and Venetian history
TitleProfessor
SpouseWhitney
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 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 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 early life

Dursteler is a Latter-day Saint. He served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 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, and their three children in Provo, UT.[3]

Academic and professional career

Dursteler has been a faculty member of the BYU department of history since 1998,[2] and serves as chair of the BYU history department.[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).

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 is also 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

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

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. (2011), "Renegade Women: Gender, Identity and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean". John Hopkins Unversity 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". John Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9781421419015

Book Chapters

  • "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]

References

  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
  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. ^ Conversions: Gender & Religious Change in Early Modern Europe. University of Manchester Press. 2017. pp. 21–40. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ Living in the Ottoman Realm: Sultans, Subjects, and Elites. Indiana University Press. 2016. pp. 182–193. ISBN 978-0-253-01948-6.