Pfizer Price for Best Book in the History of Science, History of Science Society, Fall 2008.Highly Commended, Longman’s/History Today Annual Book Prize, Spring 2009.General Education Teaching Award, Fall 2009.Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works.The Places and Spaces of Early Modern London. “Shows in the Showstone: A Theater of Alchemy and Apocalypse in the Angelic Conversations of John Dee (1527-1608),” Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996): 707.

“Managing an Experimental Household: the Dees of Mortlake and the Practice of. A View from the Streets: Women and Medical Work in Elizabethan London. “‘Strange’ Ideas and ‘English’ Knowledge: Natural Science Exchange in Elizabethan London”. “Tulips, Maps, and Spiders: the Cole-Ortelius-Lobel Family and the Practice of Natural History”. NA) Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment/Ashgate. “Nosce Teipsum: Curiosity, the Humoral Body, and the Culture of Therapeutics in Late Sixteenth-Century and Early Seventeenth Century England”. n/a) John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought/Springer. The Nexus of Angelology, Eschatology, and Natural Philosophy in John Dee’s Angel Conversations and Library. “Accounting for Science: How a Merchant Kept His Books in Elizabethan London”. “From Notes to Narrative: Finding the Story” in From Concept to Completion: A Dissertation-Writing Guide for History Graduate Students. “Elizabethan Naturalists and the Work of John White,” European Visions, American Voices. The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. History of Science, History of Medicine, London, Scientific Revolution, John Dee, magic, alchemy Technical skills such as paleography, and teaching experience. Trains students as broadly as possible in early modern European history,Īnd pays special attention to their acquisition of language skills, In the future she hopes to offer courses on Renaissance MagicĪnd Modern Popular Culture, on the History of London, and on theĮxperimental Life in Early Modern Europe. History and upper-division undergraduate courses on the history of TudorĪnd Stuart England, the history of women, and the history of magic and Intellectual history, including the survey in early modern European Professor Harkness teaches courses on early modern cultural and At the same time, however, experimental science profited enormously from its hiatus in the home where kitchen equipment could be adapted to new chemical purposes, servants and other household members could be employed as laboratory assistants and subjects, and women could be relied on to manage the complicated business of science in addition to their already overwhelming domestic responsibilities. Professor Harkness’s new project, Living the Experimental Life in Early Modern Britain, seeks to understand the often uncomfortable intersection of scientific and domestic cultures in the 17th century and argues that in houses all over England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the Americas science proved to be an unwelcome guest.

Her second book, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution, explores the thriving, complicated scientific culture that could be found on the streets of the city that was home to both Shakespeare and Francis Bacon. Her first book, John Dee’s Conversations with Angels, examined how a single Renaissance figure found answers to his questions about the natural world in his library and private study by turning to magic. Rather than focusing on the end-points of this journey (the medieval university and the enlightened scientific academy), she studies the many spaces that students of nature passed through along the way in search of an ideal place to do scientific work. A specialist in the period from 1400-1700, she is fascinated by how the study of the natural world traveled from the universities of the Middle Ages, through the libraries and royal courts of the Renaissance, into the cities and homes of early modern Europe, and then finally arrived in the learned academies of the Enlightenment. USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Instituteĭeborah Harkness is a historian of science and medicine from antiquity Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies Huntington-USC Institute on California and The West Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American LifeĬenter for Islamic Thought, Culture and PracticeĬenter for Latinx and Latin American Studies

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