Faculty

John K. Brackett
Associate Professor
Fields: Italian Renaissance, Early Modern Europe

Phone: 556-4688
Email: John.Brackett@UC.Edu
Office: 610-C Old Chemistry

Associate Professor Brackett received his BA and PhD in History from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati since 1987. Primary interests include social history of the Italian Renaissance, especially in Florence; history of crime and criminal justice; black Africans in Renaissance and early modern Europe.

Selected Courses:
The Italian Renaissance
Renaissance Europe, selected topics
Black Africans in Europe, 1440-1800
European Civilization, 1000-1500, and 1500-1789
Introduction to Historical Methodologies (Graduate)
Crime and Picaresque Literature in Europe, 1500-1800

Selected Publications:
“Alessandro de’Medici and His Mother,” in Le Maison Afrique de Toulouse (edited volume), Black Africans and Their Descendants in Europe Before the XIX Century, forthcoming 2007)

“Race and rulership: Alessandro de’Medici, first Medici Duke of Florence, 1529-1537,” in T. F. Earle and K. J. P. Lowe (eds.), Black Africans in Renaissance Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence (Cambridge University Press, 1992)