dr. sc. Ovanes Akopyan / bibliografija

Monographs

  1. Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’ Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem and Its Reception (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021) (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 325).

Media coverage: New Work in Intellectual History podcast (with Selma Sondern, University of St Andrews) (https://intellectualhistory.net/new-work/debating-the-stars-in-the-italian-renaissance-giovanni-pico-della-mirandolas-disputationes-adversus-astrologiam-divinatricem-and-its-reception); Astra project podcast (with Luis Ribeiro and Helena Avelar, University of Lisbon): Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance with Ovanes Akopyan – The Astra Project; The Modern Hermeticist podcast (with Dan Attrell, University of Waterloo): Debating the Stars – Pico Della Mirandola Against Astrology [Interview] – The Modern Hermeticist.

Book launch: Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, STUDIO seminar series, University of Warwick. Respondents: Christopher S. Celenza (Johns Hopkins University), Brian Copenhaver (University of California, Los Angeles), Maude Vanhaelen (University of Warwick), and Robert Westman (University of California, San Diego).

Reviews:
Physis. Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza, 56, 1–2 (2021), pp. 403–8 (by Matteo Cosci);
Kritikon Litterarum, 49, 1–2 (2022), pp. 7–25 (by Jean-Marc Mandosio);
Bibliotheca Hermetica Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU7zApjn7QE; in Japanese; by Hiro Hirai);
Renaissance Quarterly, 76, 2 (2023), pp. 745–46 (by Ernesto Priani Saisó).
Istoriko-filosofskij ezhegodnik, 38 (2023), pp. 430–39 (by Ol’ga Kusenko).

Expanded Russian edition: Волки в овечьих шкурах: “Рассуждения против астрологов” и ренессансная мысль Италии XV—начала XVI веков (under contract with AST Publishers, submitted).

  1. Explaining Natural Disasters in Early Modern Europe: Science, Politics, Rhetoric (under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press).
  2. An Encounter of the Opposites: Images of Muscovy in European Renaissance Writing and the Russian Responses, ca. 1453–1547 (under contract with Harvard University Press, for the ‘I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance’ series).
  3. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Renaissance Italy (under contract with Reaktion Books, for the ‘Renaissance Lives’ series).

Edited Volumes

  1. Francesco Patrizi da Cherso: Ancient Wisdom, Natural Philosophy and Poetics in the Late Renaissance, special issue of Intellectual History Review, 29, 4 (2019).

Review: Bruniana & Campanelliana, 2 (2020), pp. 622–25 (by Jacomien Prins).

  1. Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021) (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 327).

Reviews: Renaissance Quarterly, 76, 2 (2023), pp. 748–49 (by Per Landgren);
Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval, 30, 1 (2023), pp. 235–37 (by Paula Oliveira e Silva).

  1. (De)Constructing Authority in Early Modern Cosmology, ed. with Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), special issue of Perspectives on Science, 30, 5–6 (2022).
  2. Disaster in the Early Modern World: Examinations, Representations, and Interventions, ed. with David Rosenthal (University of Exeter) (Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2024) (Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge; paperback edition – 2025).
  3. In dialogo con l’Occidente. Rinascimento e renovatio nella Russia del Cinquecento / В диалоге с Западом. Возрождение и религиозное обновление в России XVI века, ed. with Marcello Garzaniti (University of Florence), Iris Karafillidis (University of Padua) and Francesca Romoli (University of Pisa) (Florence: Firenze University Press, 2025) (published in open access: In dialogo con l’Occidente: Rinascimento e renovatio nella Russia del Cinquecento / В диалоге с Западом: возрождение и религиозное обновление в России XVI века – Firenze University Press).
  4. The Senses and the Sciences: New Perspectives on Early Modern Aristotelianism, ed. with Mattia Mantovani (KU Leuven), Annals of Science (submission scheduled for autumn 2026).
  5. Brill’s Companion to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, ed. with Brian Copenhaver (University of California, Los Angeles) (under contract with Brill, submission scheduled for spring 2027).
  6. Astrology and Religion: Opposition, Censorship and Adaptation in the Early Modern World, ed. with Neil Tarrant (University of York) (under contract with Brill, submission scheduled for spring 2027).

Selected Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  1. ‘Flows of Water in the Serene Republic: Coping with Tides in Renaissance Venice, ca. 1550,’ Knowledge in Use: Practices and Practitioners in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period, special issue of Galilæana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science, ed. by Raffaele Danna (invited contribution, submitted, under review).
  2. ‘Stavrogin’s Demons: The Crisis of Humanism and Russia’s Religious Far-Right,’ Humanism between Ideal and Ideology. Images and Notions of the Human after 1945, special issue of Zeitsprünge, ed. by Hana Gründler and Katharine Stahlbuhk (invited contribution, submitted, under review).
  3. (with Pietro Daniel Omodeo), ‘Experimenting with the Lagoon: Cristoforo Sabbadino and the Evolution of Venetian Hydraulics,’ From Experience to Experiments in the Long Seventeenth Century, special issue of Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, ed. by Leonie Hannan and Stefano Gulizia (invited contribution, submitted, under review).
  4. (co-authored with Anastasia Malkova) ‘Medicine, Astrology, and Self-Censorship: Translating Marsilio Ficino in Muscovy (ca. 1580–1620),’ Rinascimento, 62 (2022), 165–200.
  5. ‘Discussing Tides Before and After Newton: Roger Joseph Boscovich’s De aestu maris,’ (De)Constructing Authority in Early Modern Cosmology, ed. by Ovanes Akopyan and Pietro Daniel Omodeo, special issue of Perspectives on Science, 30, 6 (2022), 1042–64.
  6. (co-authored with Pietro Daniel Omodeo) ‘Quis dixit? The Vicissitudes of Authority in Early Modern Cosmology,’ (De)Constructing Authority in Early Modern Cosmology, ed. by Ovanes Akopyan and Pietro Daniel Omodeo, special issue of Perspectives on Science, 30, 5 (2022), 819–25.
  7. (co-authored with Simon Smets) ‘The Power of Unity: Love in Marsilio Ficino’s Letters on Family Life, Friendship, and the Relationship with God,’ Bruniana & Campanelliana, 27, 1–2 (2021), 335–48.
  8. ‘Reading (?) Vives in Sixteenth-Century Russia,’ Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 6, 3 (2021), 225–69.
  9. ‘A Sixteenth-Century Russian Vita of Girolamo Savonarola,’ Renaissance Studies, 34, 5 (2020), 803–15.
  10. ‘In Search of a Spiritus: Francesco Patrizi on Tides,’ Francesco Patrizi da Cherso: Ancient Wisdom, Natural Philosophy and Poetics in the Late Renaissance, ed. by Ovanes Akopyan, special issue of Intellectual History Review, 29, 4 (2019), 655–68.
  11. ‘Praenotio, Prisca Haeresis, and Astrology: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola between Savonarola and Giovanni Pico,’ Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola (1469–1533): Faith, Imagination, and Skepticism, ed. by Marco Antonio Piana, special issue of Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 42, 4 (2019), 135–58.
  12. ‘”Me quoque adolescentem olim fallebat”: Giovanni (or Gianfrancesco?) Pico della Mirandola versus prisca theologia,’ Accademia (Revue de la Société Marsile Ficin), 18 (2016 [2019]), 75–93.
  13. ‘Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Astrology (1486–1493): From Scientia Naturalis to the Disputationes adversus astrologiam,’ I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, 21, 1 (2018), 47–66.
  14. ‘”Princeps aliorum” and His Followers: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on the ‘Astrological Tradition’ in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem,’ Renaissance Studies, 32, 4 (2018), 547–64.
  15. (In Russian) ‘The Letter of Patriarch Tikhon to Pope Benedict XV and Other Documents on the Relations between the Holy See and the USSR in the 1920s,’ New Literary Observer, 154 (2018), 141–60.
  16. ‘Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on Tides,’ Bruniana & Campanelliana, 24, 1 (2018), 135–45.

Selected Book Chapters

  1. ‘Humanism Against Itself: From Renaissance Freedom to Post-Soviet Political Theology,’ in Historiographies Lost and Reclaimed: Scholarship on the Italian Renaissance in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. by Iryna Mikhailova (Leiden; Boston: Brill, submitted, under review).
  2. ‘Tides: Thinking on Water in Early Modernity,’ in Consonances: Mathematics, Language, and the Moral Sense of Nature, ed. by Susan Gottlöber, Ciarán Mac an Bhaird and Kevin Tracey (Leiden; Boston: Brill, submitted, under review).
  3. (In Russian) ‘Humanism and “Humanisms”: (Once Again) On Framing the Methodological Problem,’ in In dialogo con l’Occidente. Rinascimento e renovatio nella Russia del Cinquecento / В диалоге с Западом. Возрождение и религиозное обновление в России XVI века, ed. by Marcello Garzaniti, Ovanes Akopyan, Iris Karafillidis and Francesca Romoli (Florence: Firenze University Press, 2025), pp. 17–31.
  4. ‘Volcano Aesthetics, Scholarly Ascents, and a Return to the Ancient Past in Early Modern Europe,’ in Constructing European Historical Narratives across the Early Modern World, ed. by Megan Armstrong, Hilary Bernstein and Fabien Montcher (New York; Toronto: Iter Press, 2025), pp. 497–525.
  5. ‘Censorship and Structures of Control: Orthodoxy,’ in Science in Christianity: A Global History, 1500–1800, ed. by Francisco Malta Romeiras, Neil Tarrant, and Cornelis J. Schilt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, submitted, under review).
  6. ‘The Confessionalisation of the Sky: Astronomy as a Political and Religious Tool in Pre-Modern Russia,’ in Handbook in Cultural Astronomies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. by Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Nick Campion, and Henrique Leitão (Leiden; Boston: Brill, submitted, under review).
  7. ‘The Universe and Human Destiny,’ in A Cultural History of the Universe in the Renaissance, ed. by Lindsay Statkey (London; New York: Bloomsbury, submitted, in press).
  8. ‘Observing the Stars, Investigating Causality: Astrology from Dante to Pico,’ in Dante nella Firenze del Magnifico e nel mondo delle corti padane ai tempi di Pico, ed. by Raphael Ebgi (Florence: Olschki, submitted, in press).
  9. (co-authored with Pietro Daniel Omodeo) ‘Cristoforo Sabbadino’s Manuscript Notes on Tides: A Document on Water Knowledge and Practice from the Marciana Library in Venice,’ in Natural Resources in Early Modern Economies of Knowledge, ed. by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Helge Wendt (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025), pp. 47–67.
  10. ‘Introduction,’ in Disaster in the Early Modern World: Examinations, Representations, and Interventions, ed. by Ovanes Akopyan and David Rosenthal (Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2024), pp. 1–13.
  11. ‘Power, Fortune and Scientia naturalis: A Humanist Reading of Disasters in Giannozzo Manetti’s De terremotu,’ in Disaster in the Early Modern World: Examinations, Representations, Interventions, ed. by Ovanes Akopyan and David Rosenthal (Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2024), pp. 50–74.
  12. ‘Preserving Orthodoxy: Greek Studies in Early Modern Russia,’ in When Greece Flew across the Alps: The Study of Greek in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Federica Ciccolella (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022), pp. 279–94.
  13. ‘From Princeps Concordiae to a Critic of Tradition: Some Reflections on Giovanni Pico’s Method,’ in La lama del sapiente. Saggi sulla filosofia di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, ed. by Giovanni Licata and Pasquale Terracciano (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2022), pp. 45–73.
  14. ‘Pico della Mirandola and Augustine,’ in Augustine and the Humanists. Reading the City of God from Petrarch to Poliziano, ed. by Fabio Della Schiava and Guy Claessens (Ghent: LYSA Publishers, 2021), pp. 409–26.
  15. ‘Introduction: Not Simple Twists of Fate,’ in Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650, ed. by Ovanes Akopyan (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021), pp. 1–10.
  16. ‘Ptolemy, Fortune, and Politics: A Case of the Reception of Western Scholarship in Early Modern Russia,’ in Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650, ed. by Ovanes Akopyan (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021), pp. 233–58.
  17. ‘One More (Unsuccessful) Reconciliation: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on Averroes and Islamic Philosophy,’ in Averroism between the 15th and 17th Century, ed. by Jozef Matula (Nordhausen: Bautz, 2020), pp. 80–115.
  18. ‘Latin Studies and Greek Scholars in Early Modern Russia,’ in Post-Byzantine Latinitas: Latin in Post-Byzantine Scholarship (15th – 19th centuries), ed. by Ioannis Deligiannis, Vasileios Pappas, and Vaios Vaiopoulos (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020), pp. 93–104.
  19. ‘Europe or Not? Early Sixteenth-Century European Descriptions of Muscovy and the Russian Responses,’ in Contesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses of Europe (15th–18th Century), ed. Isabella Walser-Bürgler, Nicolas Detering and Clementina Marsico (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019), pp. 248–71.
  20. (In Russian) ‘A Philosopher and the Stars: Astrology in the Work of Marsilio Ficino Between the Medieval Tradition and Neoplatonism,’ in The Book and Book Culture in Western Europe and Russia before Modernity, ed. Аlexander K. Gladkov and Igor’ Kh. Tchernyak (Moscow; Saint Petersburg: Tsentr gumanitarnïkh initsiativ, 2019), pp. 31–110.
  21. ‘”Latin Vice” and “Hellenic Charm”: Maximus the Greek and Renaissance Debates on Astrology in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy,’ in Cultural Encounters: Cross-disciplinary Studies from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, ed. Desiree Cappa et al. (Wilmington, DE; Malaga: Vernon Press, 2018), pp. 59–72.

Selected Reviews

  1. ‘Fonti, flussi, onde. L’acqua tra realtà e metafora nel pensiero antico, medievale e moderno, ed. by Massimiliano Lenzi, Olga L. Lizzini, Pina Totaro and Luisa Valente (Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2022),’ International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, 11 (2026), 455–60.
  2. Nicolaus Viti Gozzius, “Breve Compendium in Duo Prima Capita Tertii De Anima Aristotelis”: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Indices, ed. by Šime Demo and Pavel Gregorić (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024),’ Renaissance Quarterly (submitted).
  3. ‘Neil Tarrant, Defining Nature’s Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2022),’ Renaissance Quarterly (submitted).
  4. ‘Reassessing Renaissance Intellectual Traditions through Galeotto Marzio. Review of Galeotto Marzio, De doctrina promiscua, ed. by Enikő Békés (Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2024),’ Neulateinisches Jahrbuch. Journal of Neo-Latin Language and Literature, 26 (2024–2025), 391–93.
  5. ‘Cecilia Muratori, Renaissance Vegetarianism: The Philosophical Afterlives of Porphyry’s “On Abstinence” (Cambridge: Legenda, 2020),’ Renaissance Quarterly, 78, 2 (2025), 635–36.
  6. ‘Benjamin Topp, Venenum de manibus credulorum extorquere: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Disputationes adversus astrologos I – IV. Edition, Übersetzung und Anmerkungen (Göttingen: V&R unipress; Universitätsverlag Osnabrück, 2022),’ Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, 77, 3 (2024), 145–47.
  7. ‘Michela Malpangotto, Theoricae novae planetarum Georgii Peurbachii dans l’histoire de l’astronomie (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2020),’ Physis: rivista internazionale di storia della scienza, 57, 2 (2022), 422–25.
  8. ‘Harun Küçük, Science Without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020),’ Early Science and Medicine, 26, 4 (2021), 416–18.
  9. ‘Donato Verardi, La scienza e i segreti della natura a Napoli nel Rinascimento. La magia naturale di Giovan Battista della Porta (Florence: Firenze University Press, 2018),’ Renaissance Studies, 35, 3 (2021), 551–53.
  10. ‘Lydia Barnett, After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019),’ Annals of Science, 78, 1 (2021), 126–28.
  11. ‘Tatiana Matasova, Sophia Palaiologina (Софья Палеолог) (Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 2017),’ Renaissance Studies, 33, 2 (2019), 326–27.
  12. ‘Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony, ed. Jacomien Prins and Maude Vanhaelen (New York; London: Routledge, 2018),’ Nuncius, 34, 2 (2019), 463–64.
  13. ‘Historical Disaster Experiences: Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe, ed. Gerrit J. Schenk (Cham: Springer, 2017),’ British Journal for the History of Science, 52, 2 (2019), 374–75.

In Preparation

  1. ‘Copernicanism, Newton, and Cosmological Authority in the Jesuit Order in mid-Eighteenth-Century Rome,’ (to be submitted to Annals of Science).
  2. ‘Discussing Atoms in a Prosimetrum: Nicolas Biese on Nature in the De universitate libri tres (1556),’ (to be submitted to Early Science and Medicine).
  3. ‘Nogarola on the Nile: Current Science and Fluent Latin,’ (to be submitted to Humanistica Lovaniensia).
  4. ‘Si interveniat Politianus: Poliziano, Pico, and the Rejection of Astrology as a Humanist Exercise,’ (to be submitted to Journal of the History of Ideas).

Encyclopedia Entries

  1. Contributions on ‘Macrocosm’, ‘Astrological Medicine’, ‘Astrological Determinism’, ‘Oracles’, ‘Flow and Ebb in Renaissance Science’, ‘Marc’ Antonio de Dominis’, and ‘Renaissance Causality’ for Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, ed. Marco Sgarbi (Dordrecht; Boston: Springer, forthcoming, due to appear in print in 2021).
  2. A contributor to the database of the project ‘NOSCEMUS: Nova Scientia: Early Modern Science and Latin’ (noscemus (uibk.ac.at)).
  3. Contribution on ‘Francesco Patrizi da Cherso’ for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (forthcoming).
  4. Contribution on ‘Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’ for Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexicon (Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz, forthcoming).

Conference Papers and Lectures

I have presented my research at conferences in Austria (Innsbruck), Belgium (Brussels, Ghent, Leuven), Canada (Toronto), the Czech Republic (Olomouc, Prague), Germany (Berlin, Düsseldorf), Ireland (Dublin, Maynooth), Italy (Bologna, Florence, Mirandola, Padua, Pisa, Prato, Rome, Venice), Poland (Krakow), Portugal (Lisbon), Russia (Moscow, Saint Petersburg), Spain (Barcelona), the United Kingdom (Cambridge, London, Oxford, Warwick, York), the United States (Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, New York), and Japan (Kyoto). I have been invited to give guest lectures at various institutions in Croatia (Zagreb), the Czech Republic (Olomouc, Prague), Germany (Darmstadt, Nuremberg), Italy (Florence, Venice), Japan (Tokyo), Russia (Moscow, Saint Petersburg), Turkey (Istanbul), and the United Kingdom (London, Warwick).

Outreach and Public Engagement

Popular scholarly articles on history and the humanities:
‘Stavrogin’s Demons: On the Origins of Russian Religious Nationalism,’ “The Fifth Wave”: Independent Russian Writing (Ованес Акопян | Ставрогинские бесы; in Russian).
‘8 Myths about the Renaissance,’ Arzamas (https://arzamas.academy/mag/353-reness; in Russian).
‘What was Giordano Bruno actually burned for,’ Arzamas (https://arzamas.academy/mag/164-bruno; in Russian).
‘The Kabbalah for Beginners,’ Arzamas (https://arzamas.academy/mag/136-kabbala; in Russian).
Open-access reproduction of the article on ‘The Letter of Patriarch Tikhon to Pope Benedict XV and Other Documents on the Relations between the Holy See and the USSR in the 1920s,’ Gorky Media (https://magazines.gorky.media/nlo/2018/6/pismo-patriarha-tihona-pape-rimskomu-benediktu-xv-i-drugie-dokumenty-iz-istorii-otnoshenij-svyatogo-prestola-s-sssr-1920-e-gody.html; in Russian).

Interviews, podcasts and TV appearances:
Interview for the podcast “Smart Books” on ‘Why Do We Read Frances A. Yates: Science, Magic and the Art of Memory’ (Почему мы читаем Фрэнсис Йейтс… — Умные книги — Apple Podcasts; in Russian).
SRS Book Series Interview: SRS Book Series Interviews: Ovanes Akopyan – Society for Renaissance Studies.
‘Why Do Scholars Study Astrology, Alchemy and Magic,’ Arzamas (https://arzamas.academy/mag/159-horoskope; in Russian).
Interview for the the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts’ I Will Show You the Museum series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-qIDIv7ook&t=1127s; in Russian).
‘Medieval Literature,’ TV programme The Spectator (https://smotrim.ru/video/1578435?utm_source=player&utm_campaign=blocked_embed; in Russian).
‘The Occult Renaissance,’ podcast Auditorium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EcpDAeYPZs&t=672s; in Russian).
Interview for the Modern Hermeticist podcast: Debating the Stars – Pico Della Mirandola Against Astrology [Interview] – The Modern Hermeticist.
Interview for the New Work in Intellectual History podcast: https://intellectualhistory.net/new-work/debating-the-stars-in-the-italian-renaissance-giovanni-pico-della-mirandolas-disputationes-adversus-astrologiam-divinatricem-and-its-reception.
Interview for the The Astra Project series: Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance with Ovanes Akopyan – The Astra Project.’Following the Stars: the history of astrology from antiquity to Newton,’ lecture series for the Stradarium educational project (Следуя за звездами: астрология от Античности до Ньютона. Курс Ованеса Акопяна (stradarium.ru); in Russian).

Editorial Board and Service

Arcana naturae: Revue d’’istoire des sciences secrètes (peer-reviewed journal).
Medieval and Early Modern Europe and the World (peer-reviewed book series, Brepols).
Scientiae Studies (peer-reviewed book series, Amsterdam University Press).
Member of the executive committee of Scientiae.

Peer Reviewing

Article referee for journals Bruniana & Campanelliana; Cogent Arts & Humanities; Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography; Early Science and Medicine; Humanistica Lovaniensia; Intellectual History Review; Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources; Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science; Philosophy East and West; Renaissance Studies; Rinascimento; Sixteenth-Century Journal; Society and Politics; Theory of Science.
Evaluator of book proposals and book-length manuscripts for Bloomsbury Academic; Brill; Brepols; Johns Hopkins University Press; and the University of Toronto Press.

Membership

Renaissance Society of America
History of Science Society
Society for Renaissance Studies
International Association for Neo-Latin Studies