Courses Taught
Hist 111B: World History, West 1500-Present
Hist 300A: Ancient Greece
Hist 300B: Ancient Rome
Hist 302A: Age of the Renaissance
Hist 302B: Age of the Reformation
Research Interests
Renaissance Historiography
Education
University of Chicago
History, Ph.D., 1980
Selected Publications
Birth of the Past (Johns Hopkins, 2011)
Humanism and the Renaissance (Houghton Milfflin, 2002)
Information Ages: Leteracy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution, with Michael E. Hobart (Johns Hopkins, 1998)
On the Threshold of Modernity: Relativism in the French Renaissance (Johns Hopkins, 1991)
Lech Walesa Hall 4072
5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
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Office Hours
Fall 2015 Semester: Tuesday 12:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., 6:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.; Thursday 12:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Main Campus
Curriculum Vitae
Schiffman CV 2014.pdf52.41 KB
