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Susan Anne Naramore

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Postdoc @ Notre Dame Rome PhD University of Notre Dame | Social & Cultural Historian of Early Modern Italy | writing about the Florentine countryside, historical memory, identity, & state-building

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Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Nov 18

Bsky intro: PhD candidate @ Notre Dame & Visiting Student Researcher @ UC Berkeley| project on the Medici & Mugello valley & the creation of early modern Tuscan identity | interested in early modern Europe, state-building, identity, cultural memory, masculinity, & gender

Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Jul 23

Few things calm me more than when my passport arrives with my Italian visa approved. Heading to Rome at the end of August!!

Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Jul 14

Dissertation defense ✅
Submitted dissertation to graduate school ✅
Have a massive headache ✅

Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Jul 5

Shout out to everyone I’ve met at #rensoc25 what a wonderful conference and community!

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Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Jul 4

Exited to talk about Perugia and the origin story of the perugini saltless bread!
Panel 7.3 #Rensoc25

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Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Jun 23

Dissertation defense tomorrow 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Jun 4

Thank you!

Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Jun 4

And with that my dissertation is submitted to my committee.

How did 5 years fly by?

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Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · May 29

The cutest of writing companions

Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · May 27

T-7 days
Count down to submitting dissertation to my committee

Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · May 27

Really appreciate the library at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social having the perfect writing vibe

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Nicholas Scott Baker @renhistorian.bsky.social · May 26

The Medici Archive Project is offering 12 short-term fellowships for pre-doc students and postdoc candidates, working on fields related to early modern Italy (preferably with a specific emphasis on Tuscan or Medici history). Deadline: 15 June.
www.medici.org/fellowships/

Fellowships – The Medici Archive Project

www.medici.org

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Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · May 16

The final month of dissertation writing is the most productive and most painful, or is it just me?

Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · May 6

Honestly this sounds like such a good time, lucky students.

Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · May 6

I went to Chicago to cover a papal conclave. No, not that one. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’

www.nytimes.com

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · Apr 14

The Medici Archive Project is offering twelve short-term fellowships for graduate, pre-doctoral students, and postdoctoral candidates, working on fields related to early modern Italy (preferably with a specific emphasis on Tuscany or Medici history) #earlymodern 🗃️

Fellowships – The Medici Archive Project

www.medici.org

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Feb 11

EXCITEMENT!!!

OUR PROGRAMME IS LIVE!

Would you look at all these fascinating panels and presentations -- the #EarlyModern continues to fascinate.

Have a peak www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial... and get excited for 2-5 July in Bristol for #RenSoc25! #SkyStorians

a blurry picture of a person standing in front of a refrigerator and oven .

Alt: gif from the office. it's a guy in a suit walking out an office door while there's lots of movement by other men in suits. The guy says "oh my god it's happening everybody stay CALM" while absolutely not staying calm.

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Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Feb 7

Very excited to be giving a talk as part of the Medici Archive Project forum next week!

Creating Lucrezia Donati: From the Muse of Lorenzo ‘il Magnifico’ to the Medici Mistress in Modern Historical Memory

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · Jan 14

...absolutely incredible. Here's what Medieval Bologna would have looked like when all its towers were intact. Florence didn't have so many but did have dozens, so the richest part of the city center would have looked much like this. Much to the despair of the city fire brigade! 11/?

Photo of a model of Bologna, with so many earthy pink tall skinny towers sticking up from every block of the terra-cotta-roofed town that it looks like plant seeds starting to come up in spring. Around the edge you can see the city's moat and battlemented walls, looking tiny compared to the towers which rise to six or seven times the height of the three-story buildings around them.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Jan 8

Speaking of our conference: there's no deadline on this, but do follow all participants we've been able to capture thus far. And let us know if you're joining us, #EarlyModern #Skystorians! go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt

#RenSoc25

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · Jan 9

Call to Italianists: I am organizing a study abroad to Florence in May 2026. If you have done so before and can recommend a travel agent who can help, would you please share? Looking for someone to coordinate accommodation, museum, bus and train bookings. Location immaterial, can be remote.

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Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Jan 3

Very excited for my first talk of the New Year!

Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Dec 10

Can I send this post to my university library in lieu of a request to get a copy asap

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Dec 9

We're counting down to 2025 because in 2025 we get to all meet again!

In Bristol this time. Who's joining us there? And are you in our starter pack yet? #RenSoc25

go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt

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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · Dec 4

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.

Signed,
a physicist

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · Dec 2

🚨 #Skystorians: @cambridgeup.bsky.social, publisher of 'Renaissance Quarterly', has "temporarily enabled free access to all articles published since the 1st of January 2023; this will continue for all new articles published through the 31st of December this year" 🗃️ #EarlyModern
shorturl.at/BOw6L

Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core

Renaissance Quarterly - Barbara Fuchs, Carina L. Johnson, Brian J. Maxson, John R. Decker

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Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Dec 2

Ok but I don’t miss these