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Thomas J. Kuehn is a Professor in the Department of History within Clemson University's College of Arts and Humanities, specializing in the Protestant Reformation and Renaissance Italy. He joined Clemson in 1981 and maintains an active academic profile with office in Hardin Hall.
His research focuses on the legal and social culture of Renaissance Italy, particularly examining family structures, gender roles, inheritance systems, and illegitimacy through interdisciplinary legal anthropology. Kuehn's methodology combines archival research with anthropological frameworks to analyze social dynamics in pre-modern European societies.
His publications reveal persistent scholarly engagement with Florentine legal history across three decades, evolving from studies of emancipation (1982) to comprehensive analyses of family-gender systems (2017). Key thematic threads include kinship networks, credit relationships, and women's lived experiences within patriarchal structures.
- National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship (2003) for research on repudiated inheritances
- American Historical Association's Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize (2009) for Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence
Kuehn has directed significant scholarly projects including NEH-funded research on Florentine inheritance disputes, contributing to broader understandings of how legal frameworks shaped social relations in Renaissance city-states. His work bridges legal history, social anthropology, and gender studies through meticulous examination of archival court records and notarial documents.
