Liz Horodowich
Professor of History, NMSU, PhD University of Michigan, lizh@nmsu.edu
Liz Horodowich is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. She earned her BA at Oberlin College (1992) and her PhD at the University of Michigan (2000). She has received grants and fellowships from numerous organizations, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Renaissance Society of America, and Harvard University's Villa I Tatti. She has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals, including Past and Present, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Renaissance Studies, and Renaissance Quarterly, and is the author of Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice (Cambridge, New York, 2008) and A Brief History of Venice (Constable and Robinson, London, 2009). Her current research focuses on Venetian perceptions of and publications about the Discovery of the New World, including travel literature and the history of Venetian cartography.