Assistant Professor Monique O'Connell
Medieval Renaissance
B-11 Tribble Hall; 758-4711
e-mail: oconneme@wfu.edu

Education:
B.A. Brown University 1996
M.A., Northwestern University 1997
Ph.D, Northwestern University 2002

Courses Offered:
HST 106 Medieval World Civilizations
HST 206 The Early Middle Ages
HST 207 The High Middle Ages and Renaissance
HST 305 Medieval and Early Modern Iberia HST 307 The Italian Renaissance
Hst 390 Conquest and Coexistence in the Mediterranean

Professional and Research Interests: Venetian politics and society in the Renaissance; Venice's maritime empire, Mediterranean history; early modern empires

Selected Publications:
Men of Empire: Power and Negotiation in Venice’s Maritime State  (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)

“Italy in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean,” California Italian Studies 1 (2009).

“Oligarchy, Faction and Compromise in Fifteenth Century Venice,” in From Florence to the Mediterranean: Studies in Honor of Anthony Molho, ed. Diego Curto, Eric Dursteler, Julius Kirshner, and Francesca Trivellato, vol I, pp. 409-426. Florence, Leo Olschki Press, 2009. 

“The Venetian Patriciate in the Mediterranean: Legal Identity and Lineage in Fifteenth Century Venetian Crete,” Renaissance Quarterly 57 (2004): 466-93.