Michael C. Carhart
Associate Professor, History
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia 23529 U.S.A.

Recent publications

• The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany (Harvard Univ. Pr., 2007)
• "Polynesia & Polygenism: The Scientific Use of Travel Literature in the Early Nineteenth Century," History of the Human Sciences 22 (2009): 58-86.
• "Historia Literaria & Cultural History from Mylaeus to Eichhorn" in Momigliano & Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences, ed. Peter N. Miller (Univ. of Toronto Pr., 2007): 184-206.

Current research

• The Caucasians: Central Asia in the European Imagination
• Comparative Linguistics in the 1690s: Leibniz as Organizer of Scholarship

Fellowships

• American Council of Learned Societies, 2009-10
• Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, 2009-10
• National Endowment for the Humanities, summer stipend 2007
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2001-02 & 2003
  • Lorenz Krüger Fellow for the History & Philosophy of Science
• Fulbright Fellowship, Germany, 1996-97

Education

• B.A. - History & Philosophy, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn., 1989
• M.A. - Medieval History, Pennsylvania State University, 1994
• Ph.D. - History, Rutgers University, 1999

Courses Taught

• Global Exploration & European Science
  • From Columbus to Darwin
  • Human Origins & Civil Society
  • Constructing Race
  • Young Charles Darwin
• Historical Theory & Methods
• Old Regime & French Revolution
• Enlightenment Europe
• Early Modern Europe
• Interpreting the European Past (survey)