Tara Nummedal


Tara E. Nummedal is a professor of history and Italian studies at Brown University, where she holds the John Nickoll Provost’s Professorship in History. Nummedal is known for her works on Anna Maria Zieglerin and the history of alchemy and natural science in early modern Europe.

Biography

Nummedal is originally from Seal Beach, California, and is a 1992 graduate of Pomona College. After earning a master's degree at the University of California, Davis in 1996, she completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2001.
She joined the Brown University faculty in 2002. Her husband, Seth Rockman, is also a historian at Brown University.

Publications

Books

  • Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire
  • Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany
  • John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in 19th-Century Natural History Illustration.

    Editor

With Donna Bilak, she is also the editor of a critical edition of Atalanta Fugiens by Michael Maier, Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens with Scholarly Commentary.

Recognition

Nummedal was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009.