Brian Sandberg

Brian Sandberg is a Professor of History at Northern Illinois University who works on religion, violence, gender, and political culture in Renaissance France, Italy, and the Mediterranean world. His research focuses on religious violence and political culture during the French Wars of Religion (1559-1629) and the broader religious conflicts across early modern Europe. He authored a monograph entitled, Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). Sandberg has held fellowships from the IMéRA (Marseille), Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris, the Fulbright Research Scholar Program, the Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Wisconsin-Madison), the National Endowment for the Humanities (at the Medici Archive Project), and the European University Institute. He has published an interpretive essay, War and Conflict in the Early Modern World, 1500-1700 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016) and a collective volume, The Grand Ducal Medici and their Archive (1537-1743), edited by Alessio Assonitis and Brian Sandberg (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016). He has also published numerous articles and essays on diverse issues in early modern history. Sandberg served a term as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Northern Illinois University, and is currently finishing a monograph on A Virile Courage: Gender and Violence in the French Wars of Religion 1559-1629 and conducting research on Crusading Culture and Informal Empire in the Mediterranean World, 1550s-1650s.