Carrie Beneš
Assistant Professor, History
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
A.B., Harvard University
Professor Beneš is a cultural historian specializing in late Medieval Italy. Her main research interests involve intellectual networks and the construction of history as a means to identity: how people throughout history have used and manipulated the past to suit their own ends. Her dissertation, currently being revised for publication, explores the use of the classical Roman past as political propaganda in the medieval Italian city-states. Other academic interests include book history (palaeography, codicology, illumination, and the history of libraries), Italian humanism, the history and historiography of the Renaissance, urban history, and the plague; course offerings encompass these subjects as well as general surveys of the Medieval, Renaissance, and early modern periods.
