Hampshire College

Jutta Sperling, associate professor of history, received her M.A. from the Universität Göttingen in 1987 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1995. Her teaching interests focus on the social and cultural history of Early Modern Europe, with a special emphasis on Renaissance Italy and the Portuguese Empire.

Her courses investigate topics such as gender and the body, mysticism and religion, the history of medicine, travel writing and colonization.

She published a book entitled Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice (University of Chicago Press, 1999), as well as articles on the history of marriage and Portuguese women's property rights in the Renaissance.

Affiliations
School of Critical Social Inquiry

Recent Courses
CSI-0115: The Renaissance at Home: The Art & History of Domesticity (Spring 2012)
CSI-0231: Portugal and the Indian Ocean Region (ca. 1500-1650) (Spring 2012)
CSI-0230: Women, Gender, Law, and Sex in the Wider Mediterranean (1300-1800) (Fall 2011)
CSI-157T: Nuns, Saints, and Mystics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Fall 2011)