John J. Martin | Professor

John Jeffries Martin – who grew up on St. Simons Island, Georgia – attended St. Paul’s School (Concord, N.H.) and Harvard College. In 1982 he completed his Ph.D. under the direction of the late David Herlihy, a professor in the quantitative study of late medieval and early modern Europe.

Martin's research focuses primarily on the cultural history of western Europe. His major research project is a book entitled Sincerity's Historoy, which explores the ethics of self-disclosure from the ancient world to our own.

During this coming academic year, Dr. Martin has accepted an appointment as research professor in the department of history at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He will continue, however, to live in San Antonio at least through the summer of 2008. He will devote the year to the writing of a book entitled The Making of Europe: The Early Modern Experience for Longman.

Publications

• Myths of Renaissance Individualism, Palgrave, 2004
• Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City, Hopkins paperback edition, with a new preface by the author, 2004
• The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad, Routledge, 2002
• Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, Hopkins, 2000

The first edition of Venice's Hidden Enemies (California, 1993), won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association for the best first book in European history. Martin has held fellowships from the Danforth Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the American Philosophical Society, twice from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His articles and essays have appeared in The American Historical Review, The Journal of Modern History, the Journal of Social History, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Studies, and Quaderni Storici. He is the editor of The Renaissance World (forthcoming from Routledge) and is currently completing, as a co-editor, another anthology Religion and Culture in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestation. He serves on the editorial board of Annali di Studi istriani e mediterranei and on the editorial advisory board for Renaissance Quarterly.

At Trinity Martin is chair of the Department of History and a member of the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  He has published a number of articles on higher education in such journals as Academe, College Teaching, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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