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Professor Thomas Dandelet
Professor Thomas Dandelet teaches early modern European history at UC Berkeley with a focus on Italy, the Spanish Empire, and the wider Renaissance in Europe. After receiving his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1995, he taught at Bard College and Princeton University before returning to Berkeley in 2001. He is the author of Spanish Rome, 1500-1700 (Yale, 2001) and The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2014). He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome (2000) and a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship (2007).
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