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Amanda G Madden is Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University and Affiliate Faculty at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM). She holds a Ph.D. from Emory University (2011) and an M.A. in Medieval Studies from Western Michigan University (2005). Her research examines Renaissance and early modern Italy through digital and spatial history approaches, focusing on vendetta violence, state formation, and gender-crime intersections.
Her forthcoming book Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy (Cornell University Press, 2025) analyzes factional violence and political development. Current digital projects include the NEH-funded La Sfera Project and the collaborative Mapping Violence in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1700. She was a Fall 2024 visiting scholar at Ca' Foscari University of Venice's Centre for Digital and Public Humanities.
Madden teaches graduate and undergraduate courses including Clio Wired: An Introduction to History and New Media, True Crime in Early Modern Europe, and Mapping Violence in Early Modern Europe and America.
Awards and Fellowships
- CHSS Faculty Research and Development Grant (2025-26)
- American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant (2025-26)
- 4VA Grant with Virginia Tech (2024-25)
- NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant (2023-24)
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grants (2020, 2024)
- American Historical Association Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant (2018)
