Nancy Siraisi
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Nancy Gillian Siraisi (born 1932) is an American historian of medicine, and distinguished professor emerita in history at Hunter College,{{Cite web|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/history/faculty_news.shtml|title = Welcome to the History Department — Hunter College| date=9 November 2020 }} and City University of New York.{{Cite web|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/podcasts/2008/11/10/nancy-siraisi-wins-macarthur-award/|title = Nancy Siraisi Wins MacArthur Award – CUNY Podcasts}}
Life
Siraisi received a B.A. (1953) and an M.A. (1958) from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. (1970) from the City University of New York. She was a professor of history at Hunter College (1970–2003) and the Graduate Center (1976–2003) at the City University of New York.
Siraisi is a leading scholar in the history of medicine and science of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Her research has ranged widely across these two distinct fields, from her first book on the university curriculum in medieval Padua to her current work on the role of doctors in history-writing in the Renaissance.
Through her numerous publications and professional activities, Siraisi has contributed to the growth of the history of science and medicine while also fostering the continued close interaction of these fields with "mainstream" history, notably through her faithful teaching of general medieval and Renaissance history and her insistence on careful contextualization.
Awards and honors
- 1997 Elected to the American Philosophical Society{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Nancy+Siraisi&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-12-10|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}
- 2003 George Sarton Medal
- 2008 MacArthur Fellows Program{{Cite web|url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4537287/k.84A7/Nancy_Siraisi.htm|title = MacArthur Foundation}}
- 2010 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer by the American Council of Learned Societies.{{cite web |url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/abouthunter/faculty_spotlight.shtml |title=About Hunter College |website=www.hunter.cuny.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060519105025/http://hunter.cuny.edu/abouthunter/faculty_spotlight.shtml |archive-date=2006-05-19}} {{cite web |url=http://www.acls.org/news/Default.aspx?id=4198 |title=ACLS American Council of Learned Societies {{!}} www.acls.org |website=www.acls.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703043129/http://www.acls.org/news/Default.aspx?id=4198 |archive-date=2009-07-03}}
Works
- Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils: Two Generations of Italian Medical Learning, Books on Demand, 1981, {{ISBN|978-0-7837-9445-7}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=eQKqbOvg-QQC&q=Nancy+Siraisi The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine], Princeton University Press, 1997, {{ISBN|978-0-691-01189-9}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=3c0Tn7PnVnYC&q=Nancy+Siraisi Medicine and the Italian universities, 1250-1600], BRILL, 2001, {{ISBN|9789004119420}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=zgIGVWo_2FkC&q=Nancy+Siraisi History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning], University of Michigan Press, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-472-11602-7}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=6IuHj_lz-nAC&dq=Communities+of+Learned+Experience%3A+Epistolary+Medicine+in+the+Renaissance&pg=PA1550 Communities of Learned Experience: Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance]. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, {{ISBN|978-1421407494}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=acOk-oCuuMsC&q=Nancy+Siraisi Natural particulars: nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe], Editors Anthony Grafton, Nancy G. Siraisi, MIT Press, 1999, {{ISBN|978-0-262-07193-2}}
- Historia: empiricism and erudition in early modern Europe, Editors Gianna Pomata, Nancy G. Siraisi, MIT Press, 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-262-16229-6}}
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Category:American medical historians
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Hunter College faculty
Category:CUNY Graduate Center faculty
Category:CUNY Graduate Center alumni
Category:American women historians
Category:American historians of science
Category:Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America