Ann M. Blair

Ann M. Blair
Born 1961
Nationality American
Fields historian
Institutions Harvard University
Alma mater Harvard University;
University of Cambridge;
Princeton University.
Thesis Restaging Jean Bodin: the Universae Naturae Theatrum (1596) in its cultural context (1990)
Doctoral advisor Anthony Grafton

Ann M. Blair (/blɛər/; born 1961) is an American historian, and the Carl H. Prorzheimer University Professor at Harvard University.[1] She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe (16th-17th centuries), with an emphasis on France. Her interests include the history of the book and of reading, the history of the disciplines and of scholarship, and the history of interactions between science and religion. She is most widely known for being the author of the bestselling book Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age (2010).[2]

Early career

Blair studied at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and Princeton University. At Princeton, she was the first graduate student of Anthony Grafton. She defended a dissertation entitled 'Restaging Jean Bodin: the Universae Naturae Theatrum (1596) in its cultural context' in 1990, which became the basis of her 1997 book.

Professor

Since 1996 she has taught at Harvard University. She was named a Harvard College Professor in 2009 for outstanding undergraduate teaching. She received the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award in 2014. Three seniors for whom Blair was adviser won the Hoopes Prize for outstanding senior thesis, a prize that Blair herself won when a student at Harvard College.[3]

Awards

Works

References

  1. http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/blair.php
  2. Dirda, Michael (12 January 2011). "Review of Ann Blair's 'Too Much to Know,' the evolution of reference works". Washington Post. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  3. "Ann Blair named University Professor". Harvard University. Retrieved 30 November 2015.

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