Rudolph M. Bell
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., City University of New York, 1969
B.A., Queens College, 1963
Joined Rutgers in July, 1968
100 Van Dyck Hall
848-932-8539
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
I work in all aspects of Italian history but with particular attention to religion, gender, popular culture, mysticism, and the history of the book.
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
Undergraduate
- 506:112 Patterns in Civilization: Love (with Prof. Roden)
- 506:113 Patterns in Civilization: Death (with Prof. Roden)
- 506:151 History and the News
- 510:354 History of Italy's Peoples
- Seminars and Honors Seminars on Death, on Early Modern English Advice Manuals, and currently on children
Graduate
- 510:509 The Teaching of History
- Occasional seminars and colloquia
PUBLICATIONS
- The Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint, with Cristina Mazzoni (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)
- How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
- Holy Anorexia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985)
AWARDS
- National Gallery, London, Guest Lecturer, 2002
- Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Outstanding Research, 1987
- Fulbright-Hays, 1971-72
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
- Rutgers Junior Year Abroad Director in Italy, England, and Ireland
- Director, Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (website at RUL's SCC)
- Former History Dept. Chair, 1988-1994
- University Senator and Officer of New Brunswick Faculty Council
- AHA member and former office-holder
- Rutgers Council of American Association of University Professors, President
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