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 Associate
Professor
Office: Herter 624
Telephone: (413) 545-1599
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: ogilvie@history.umass.edu
Personal web site
Degree: Ph.D., University of Chicago (1997).
Field(s) of interest: Renaissance and early modern Europe,
history of science, history of religion
Courses Taught Recently
Undergraduate: Western Thought to 1600; Introduction to World Religions;
Western Science and Technology I; Italian Renaissance; Northern
Renaissance and Reformation; Witchcraft, Magic, and Science; Renaissance
Humanism
Graduate: European Historiography to the Enlightenment; Scientific
Revolution
Research Interests and Professional Activities
Professor Ogilvie's book The
Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe,
which examines the origins of modern botany and zoology in the 16th
and early 17th centuries, was published in Spring 2006. He has received
a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, along with a
fellowship at the Columbia University Institute for Scholars at
Reid Hall, Paris, for his next research project, on "Ezechiel
Spanheim (1629-1710) and the Learned Culture of Seventeenth-Century
Europe," which will examine the connections among antiquarianism,
diplomacy, and polite society in Baroque and early Enlightenment
Europe. He has published essays on "Encyclopaedism in Early Modern
Natural History: From historia to pinax" (1997), "Renaissance and
Humanism in the English-language Scholarly Literature, 1988-1998"
(1998), "Renaissance and Humanism in the English-language Scholarly
Literature, 1998-2000" (2001), "Image and Text in Natural History,
1500-1700" (2003), "The Many Books of Nature: Renaissance Naturalists
and Information Overload" (2003), the historiography of Renaissance
science (2004), and "Natural History, Ethics, and Physico-Theology"
(2005). He is also planning a book-length essay on natural theology
and the argument from design. More broadly, he is interested in
Renaissance culture, the philosophy of history, the history of witchcraft
belief and persecution, and the history of religion. He regularly
reviews books for such journals as Renaissance Quarterly,
Isis, The Journal of the History of Biology, and
American Scientist. He has held fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Columbia University
Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall. He has received grants from
the American Philosophical Society, the European Science Foundation,
the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the UMass Office of Research. He is currently serving as Graduate Program Director.
Photo: Stan Sherer
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