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Ann Blair is Carl H. Pforzheimer College Professor at Harvard College. She specializes within the cultural and mental historical past of early fashionable Europe (Sixteenth-Seventeenth centuries), with an emphasis on France. Her pursuits embrace the historical past of the e book and of studying, the historical past of the disciplines and of scholarship, and the historical past of interactions between science and faith.
Her publications embrace The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Princeton UP, 1997), Too A lot To Know: managing scholarly data earlier than the fashionable age (Yale UP, 2010), and L’Entour du texte: la publication du livre savant à la Renaissance (2021). She has co-edited, with Jennifer Milligan, Towards a Cultural Historical past of Archives, a particular challenge of Archival Science (2007); with Richard Yeo, Notice-Taking in Early Fashionable Europe, a particular challenge of Mental Historical past Assessment (2010); with Kaspar von Greyerz, Physico-theology: Faith and science in Europe 1650-1750 (2020); with Nicholas Popper, New Horizons for Early Fashionable European Scholarship (2021); with Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton, Info: A Historic Companion (2021). Blair’s analysis focuses on strategies of mental work amongst students and authors ca. 1500-1700 which she additionally compares with these of different occasions and locations. She has studied for instance strategies of studying and note-taking as taught in humanist colleges, and practices of composing and utilizing reference works and discovering gadgets. In March 2014 Blair delivered the Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography on the College of Pennsylvania on the position of amanuenses in early fashionable Europe. In December 2019 she delivered the Panizzi Lectures on the British Library on “Paratexts and Print in Renaissance Humanism.” In Could/June 2023 she delivered 5 Lyell lectures in bibliography and e book historical past at Oxford College: In the scholar’s workshop: amanuenses in early modern Europe. She is at the moment finishing a e book on this matter.
She is grateful to have obtained fellowships and awards from many sources together with the Nationwide Endowment for the Humanities, the MacArthur Basis, the Mellon Basis, the Guggenheim Basis, and the Radcliffe Institute for Superior Examine. Her instructing and advising has been acknowledged by a Harvard Faculty Professorship (2009), an Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award (2014), a Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Educating (2018), and a Star Household Prize for Excellence in Advising (2018).
