Faculty

David Baum

Lecturer in History
(Ph.D. Yale University)

Contact Information:
[Phone] (518) 388-8378
[Fax] (518) 388-6422
baumd@union.edu

 

   
 

Teaching and Research Interests
I am a lecturer in history and working on a book Plutarch in the Early Italian Renaissance under contract with Mellen Press, and several articles on the interaction of Italian Fascism and the Renaissance. My teaching areas include Renaissance and Modern Italy, Early Modern Europe, American Popular Culture, and the French Revolution.

Selected Publications

An essay for a book on the Renaissance scholar Paul Oskar Kristeller, Kristeller's iter italica: 1933-1939. (forthcoming).

A history of the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas, "Learning from the Venetian: American Popular Culture and the Italian Renaissance."

Working on a book project entitled Fascism and the Italian
Renaissance
.

A piece on Jacob Burckhardt is under review at the Huntington Quarterly.

 


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