Eric Dursteler

Eric Dursteler (Brown, 2000) is Professor of History and former department chair at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on the entangled history of the early modern Mediterranean, in particular gender, language, food and identity.  His publications include Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2006), Renegade Women: Gender, Identity and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2011), (ed.) A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 (2013), (with Monique O’Connell) The Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon (2016), and In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Ambassadorial Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (2018). He is currently completing a book on food and foodways in the Mediterranean. His work has been supported by, among others, the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the European University Institute, and the Folger Shakespeare and Huntington libraries. He is the editor of News on the Rialto.