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Alexander Bevilacqua, Associate Professor of History, teaches early modern Europe (ca. 1450 to 1800). He studies the history of Europe from Renaissance to Enlightenment, focusing in particular on global interactions and their cultural and intellectual ramifications.
Bevilacqua is the author of The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment (2018; paperback 2020). He also co-edited Thinking in the Past Tense: Eight Conversations (2019). His current book project, The Face of Battle: Chivalry and the Racial Imagination, investigates the performance of human difference at European princely courts. An excerpt from this research appeared in November 2024 in Past and Present.
His articles have appeared in History of European Ideas, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, Journal of Modern History, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, and Past and Present. He was educated at Harvard College, the University of Cambridge, and Princeton University, from which he received his doctorate in 2014. From 2014 until 2017 he was a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Co-sponsored by the Department of History