Eric R. Dursteler Explained

Eric R. Dursteler
Birth Date:	1964
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Historian, author
Known For:	Author of Mediterranean and Venetian history
Spouse:	Whitney Campbell Dursteler
Children:	3
Education:	MA, PhD
Alma Mater:	Brigham Young University Brown University

Eric R. Dursteler (born 1964) is a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and chair of the BYU history department. He is a lecturer and seminar presenter, and has specialized in the history of early modern Italy, the history of the Mediterranean including the early modern Mediterranean, and the history of food. He has authored numerous scholarly books, journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics related to early modern Mediterranean and Venetian history.

Education and personal life

Dursteler was born in Logan, Utah in 1964. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served as a church missionary in the Italy Milan Mission from 1983 to 1985.^[1]

Dursteler holds both a bachelor and MA degree from BYU, and an MA and PhD from Brown University. He completed his PhD in 2000; Anthony Molho was his dissertation advisor.^[2]

He resides with his wife, Whitney Dursteler (Campbell), in Provo, UT, and has three adult children.^[3]

Academic and professional career

Dursteler has been a faculty member of the BYU department of history since 1998,^[2] and served as chair of the BYU history department from 2016 to 2019.^[4] He has held a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and a Villa I Tatti fellowship from the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2006-2007). In 2020 he was awarded a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute. In 2022 he was a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.

He is the editor for News on the Rialto, "an annual publication devoted to providing an informational point of reference for scholars working on all aspects of Venetian studies, including the political, economic, social, religious, artistic, architectural, musical and literary history of the city, its overseas empire, and its mainland territories."^[5] He was also formerly the book review editor for the Journal of Early Modern History,^[6] and serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Mediterranean Studies.^[7] He is a member of the Founding Editorial Board for Oxford Bibliographies Renaissance and Reformation.^[8]

Selected works

Dursteler has authored numerous books, book chapters, encyclopedic entries, articles and reviews, some of which include:

Books

• Dursteler, Eric R. (2006), Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Johns Hopkins University Press,
• Dursteler, Eric R. (2011), Renegade Women: Gender, Identity and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Johns Hopkins University Press,
• Dursteler, Eric R., editor (2013), A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797. Brill's Companions to European History, Volume 4, DOI: 10.1163/9789004252523
• Dursteler, Eric R.; O'Connell, Monique (2016), "The Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon". Johns Hopkins University Press,
• James A. Toronto, Eric R. Dursteler and Michael W. Homer (2017), Mormon in the Piazza: History of the Latter-day Saints in Italy. Provo and Salt Lake City: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center in cooperation with Deseret Book. .
• Dursteler, Eric R., editor and translator (2018), In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Ambassadorial Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2018.

Book chapters

• "To Piety or Conversion More Prone? Gender and Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean"^[9]
• "Fleeing "The Vomit of Infidelity": Borders, Conversion and Muslim Women's Agency in the Early Modern Mediterranean"^[10]

Awards

• 2022: Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Netherlands^[11]
• 2020: Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship, European University Institute, Italy
• 2006: Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, National Endowment for the Humanities, USA
• 2006: Committee to Rescue Italian Art Fellowship,, Italy
• 1996: Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Commission, USA

Notes and References

1. biographical note connected with Mormons in the Piazza
2. Web site: Eric Dursteler. Brigham Young University. December 28, 2017.
3. Web site: Provo:Growing Up. Rashae Ophus Johnson. Provo Daily Herald. December 18, 2005.
4. Web site: BYU faculty bio page for Dursteler . 2017-12-30 . 2017-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171230230500/https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/FacultyPage/erd4 . dead .
5. Web site: News on the Rialto. December 28, 2017.
6. Web site: Editorial Board. Journal of Early Modern History. Brill. December 28, 2017.
7. Web site: International Editorial Advisory Board. University of Malta. December 28, 2017.
8. Web site: Renaissance and Reformation. Oxford University Press. December 28, 2017.
9. Book: Conversions: Gender & Religious Change in Early Modern Europe . Simon . Ditchfield . Helen . Smith . 21–40 . University of Manchester Press . 2017.
10. Book: Living in the Ottoman Realm: Sultans, Subjects, and Elites.. Indiana University Press. 182–193. 978-0-253-01948-6. 2016.
11. Web site: News. 2021-12-05. NIAS. en-GB.