William Stenhouse

Biography

William Stenhouse is an intellectual and cultural historian of the European renaissance. He works primarily on the reception of Roman and Greek material remains—ruins, coins, inscriptions—from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, considering how people displayed, copied, and wrote about antiquities, and what that means for the fields of classics, history, and archaeology. He teaches a range of courses in European history at Yeshiva, including introductory surveys, and electives by theme or period. He studied at Oxford University, the Warburg Institute, and University College, London, and taught briefly at Macalester College before coming to Yeshiva in 2002. He was a fellow at the Italian Academy, Columbia University, in 2005–2006, and is currently review editor for Renaissance Quarterly. His books include Reading Inscriptions and Writing Ancient History: Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance (2005) and a volume on inscriptions for the catalogue of the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo (2002).

Research Interest

Research Interests Include: Reception of Roman and Greek material remains—ruins, coins, inscriptions—from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, considering how people displayed, copied, and wrote about antiquities, and what that means for the fields of classics, history, and archaeology.