Thomas J. Kuehn
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1977
Professor and Department Chair
126A Hardin Hall
(864) 656-5361
tjkuehn@clemson.edu
www.clemson.edu/~tjkuehn

Professor Kuehn, who came to Clemson in 1981, is the department chair. He teaches courses in the Renaissance, the Reformation, and Medieval History, and is a specialist in the legal and social culture of Renaissance Italy. His books include Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence (2002), Law, Family, and Women (1991), and an edited collection, Time, Space, and Women’s Lives in Early Modern Europe (2001). In 2003, Professor Kuehn was awarded with a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which he will use to study repudiated inheritances in Renaissance Florence. He will be on sabbatical for the 2003-2004 academic year.

For Dr. Kuehn’s course syllabi, curriculum vitae, and other useful resources, please visit his webpage at http://www.clemson.edu/~tjkuehn/.

Selected Publications
Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence (University of Michigan Press, 2002).

John A. Marino and Thomas Kuehn, eds, A Renaissance of Conflicts: Visions and Revisions of Law and Society in Italy and Spain. (Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004).

Law, Family, and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy (Chicago, 1991)

Emancipation in Late Medieval Florence (Rutgers, 1982)

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