Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Maryanne Cline Horowitz is an American Historian of The Renaissance and
of History of ideas. She is
Professor of History at Occidental College,
Associate of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
and an affiliate of the USC Institute for Early Modern Studies.
Horowitz is best known as the author of
Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge,
which won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History in 1999 from the
American Philosophical Society.
Dr. Horowitz served as Editor-in-Chief of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
which the American Library Association division RUSA declared an Outstanding Reference Source 2005.
She is an innovator in women's and gender history and was
a Research Associate in Women's Studies in Religion at the Harvard Divinity School, 1979-80.
She serves on the Board of Editors of the Journal of the History of ideas,
and edited two books in their series Library of the History of Ideas
As President of the Renaissance Conference of Southern California, she hosted a national
conference for the Renaissance Society of America in 1985 at The Huntington Library,
Occidental College, and the J. Paul Getty Museum,
commemorated in the co-edited book Renaissance Rereadings: Intertext and Context.Education
Maryanne Horowitz has published numerous articles and several books, a selection:
