David Kertzer

David I. Kertzer is Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology (1992– ), Professor of History (1992–2001), and Professor of Italian Studies (2001-) at Brown University. He became Provost of Brown on July 1, 2006. In 2005 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He is the author of numerous books and articles on politics and culture, European social history, anthropological demography, 19th century Italian social history, contemporary Italian society and politics, and the history of Vatican relations with the Jews and the Italian state. His book, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction in 1997. His 2001 book, The Popes Against the Jews, has been published in nine languages.^[1]

Bibliography

• Comrades and Christians: Religion and Political Struggle in Communist Italy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980
• Family Life in Central Italy, 1880-1910: Sharecropping, Wage Labor and Coresidence. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1984.
• Ritual, Politics and Power. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
• Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change: The Transformation of Life in Casalecchio, Italy, 1861-1921 (with Dennis Hogan). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
• Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993
• Politics and Symbols: The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
• The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. New York: Knopf, 1997.
• The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism. New York: Knopf, 2001.
• Prisoner of the Vatican: The Pope’s Plot to Capture Italy from the New Italian State. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2004.
• Amalia’s Tale: a Peasant’s Fight for Justice in 19th Century Italy. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2008.

References

1. ^ Bruno Riccio “Kertzer, David I.” Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology New York: Routledge, 2004.

External links

• David Kertzer
• Critical Review evaluations of Professor Kertzer (requires login)
• Curriculum Vitae. David I. Kertzer. July 2006

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