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Pamela O. Long

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Pamela O. Long
Born1943 (age 80–81)
OccupationHistorian
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Maryland, College Park
Catholic University of America
PeriodMedieval
Notable awardsMacArthur Fellows Program, Guggenheim Fellow
Website
www.pamelaolong.com

Pamela O. Long (born 1943) is an independent American historian specializing in late medieval and Renaissance history and the history of science and technology.

In 1979-80, she was a Fulbright grantee in Italy. In 2007, she was chosen as a Guggenheim Fellow[1] and in 2014, she was made a MacArthur Fellow.[2]

Long graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park,[3] and from Catholic University of America.[2]

Works

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  • Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in the Late Sixteenth-Century Rome, University of Chicago Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-226-54379-6
  • Science and technology in medieval society, New York Academy of Sciences, 1985, ISBN 9780897662765
  • Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance. JHU Press. 30 April 2003. ISBN 978-0-8018-7282-2.
  • Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600, Oregon State University Press, 2011, ISBN 9780870716096
  • With David McGee and Alan M. Stahl, The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript, 3 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009).

References

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  1. ^ "Pamela O. Long". John John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Pamela O. Long". MacArthur Foundation.
  3. ^ "Pamela O. Long : historian of science and technology". University of Maryland. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
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