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• NAME: Tamara Griggs
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: Early Modern Europe
• Ph.D., Princeton University (History)
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  • Enlightenment Europe (topics include: radicalism, the study of nature, crime and punishment, the state, invention of civil society, the arts, and secularization)
  • Early Modern historiography and history of the book
  • History of classicism and archaeology (including cultural debates about Ancients and Moderns)
  • Travel literature, 1492-1800 (voyages to the New World, Asia, Africa, and the aristocratic travel of the Grand Tour)
  • Rome, 1600-1798
  • What was autobiography in early modern Europe?
• DISSERTATION TOPIC OR TITLE: Archaeology/Humanism in 18th-c Rome
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: griggs@fas
• OFFICE: Barker 039
• OFFICE PHONE: 495-3292

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• Barker Center 122, Cambridge, MA 02138
• Phone: (617) 495-4029 | Fax: (617) 496-5605 | Email: histlit@fas.harvard.edu

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