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Deborah Valenze is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College, specializing in the cultural history of Britain and Europe from 1600 to 1830. Her work explores economic life, gender, food history, and the history of the senses. She currently serves as President of the North American Conference on British Studies.
- Education:
- B.A., Radcliffe College, Harvard University
- Ph.D., Brandeis University
Her research spans topics like money and commodification, women's roles in the dairy industry, and Thomas Malthus' historical impact. She has taught courses on European history since the Renaissance, the cultural history of food, and the Enlightenment's sensory history.
Recent publications include The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History (2023) and Milk: A Local and Global History (2011). Her work has been supported by prestigious grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEH, ACLS, and Yale Center for British Art.
- Scientific Awards:
- Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
- Yale Center for British Art Fellow
- Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute Fellow
- Barnard Faculty Research Grant
Professor Valenze's scholarship bridges economic ideas, gender dynamics, and cultural materialism, with a focus on pre-industrial to early modern Europe.
