Ann M. Blair

Ann M. Blair is an American historian, and Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University.^[1]

Awards

• 2002 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• "Disciplinary Distinctions before the 'Two Cultures,'" The European Legacy 13:5 (2008), pp. 577–88, in a special issue on "The Languages of the Sciences and the Languages of the Humanities," ed. Oren Harman.
• Co-edited with Jennifer Milligan, a special issue of Archival Science 7:4 (2007) entitled "Toward a cultural history of archives," with a co-authored introduction, pp. 289–96
• "Textbooks and Methods of Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe," in Scholarly Knowledge: Textbooks in Early Modern Europe, ed. Emidio Campi, Simone de Angelis, Anja-Silvia Goeing and Anthony Grafton (Geneva: Droz, 2008), pp. 39–73.
• "Corrections manuscrites et listes d'errata à la Renaissance," in Esculape et Dionysos. Mélanges en l'honneur de Jean Céard, ed. Jean Dupèbe, Franco Giacone, Emmanuel Naya and Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou (Geneva: Droz, 2008), pp. 269–86.
• "Organizations of Knowledge," in Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, ed. James Hankins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 287–303.
• "Science and Religion," in Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 6: Reform and Expansion, 1500–1660, ed. Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 427–45.
• "Natural Philosophy" in The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 3: Early Modern Science, ed. Katharine Park and Lorraine Daston (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 365–405.
• "Note-Taking as an Art of Transmission," Critical Inquiry 31 (2004), pp. 85–107.
• "Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload, ca. 1550-1700," Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (2003), pp. 11–28.
• The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, ISBN 9780691056753
• The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe, Editors Anthony Grafton, Ann Blair, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990, ISBN 9780812216677

References

External links

• "Book Junkies Collect Prizes, Too", The Harvard Crimson, Lauren A.E. Schuker, December 10, 2002