Dr. Naddeo specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe, especially Italy. In particular, she is interested in the advent of the metropolis and its significance for the scope of sciences during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As her case study, Dr. Naddeo has taken the capital city of Naples, which was the single largest urban center in Europe around 1600 and a cradle of the human sciences throughout the early modern period. Presently, she is preparing for publication a book manuscript entitled The Birth of a Metropolis: Urban Politics and Cosmopolitan Knowledges in Early Modern Naples, which examines the novel objects and claims of the human sciences of the Neapolitan Enlightenment in light of the conditions and politics of the capital city. Dr. Naddeo already has published on wide-ranging topics concerning early modern Naples. In the first place, her interests in representations of the city lead to the study of how the fabric of the capital was imagined and studied over the course of the early modern period, yielding an article on the cartography of Naples for the international journal, Imago Mundi. With her research, Dr. Naddeo primarily has sought to trace how contemporaries studied the body politic, or populace, of the early modern city of Naples, however. Specifically, she has worked to identify and assess the relative staying power of those diverse genres, or regimes of description, employed to account for the reputed nature of the urban populace during the long eighteenth century. Retrospectively viewed, those same genres constitute for us examples of the early social sciences, although the boundaries of their fields of inquiry were indeterminate by contemporary standards. With Eighteenth-Century Studies, she has published on the linguistic studies of the metropolitan populace presented in those grammatical manuals, works of literary criticism and, most vividly perhaps, theatrical tableaux composed over the course of the long eighteenth century. For specialty journals, she has also written on the competing claims of law and medicine to account for the nature of the capital’s body politic. In particular, her current archival research reconsiders the emergence of natural law and medical anthropology in the politics of the municipality of Naples. Dr. Naddeo has presented examples of her work at international venues, including the Cini Foundation in Venice, the Conference of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Clark Library at UCLA, the Stanford Humanities Center and, shortly, Columbia University. She also has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and honors, including a Fulbright, the Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies (declined) and a Stanford Humanities Fellowship.

• Ph.D. The University of Chicago
• A.B. Princeton University

• The Renaissance
• Europe in the Age of the Enlightenment
• Cities in Early Modern Europe
• Law and Society in Early Modern Europe
• Medicine and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• MA Level
• Readings on Early Modern Europe

• “Cultural Capitals and Cosmopolitanism in Eighteenth-Century Italy.” Modern Italian Studies 10,2 (2005).
• “Topographies of Difference. Cartography of the City of Naples, 1629—1798.” Imago Mundi 56, i (January 2004).
• “Vico Anthropologist. From Civic to World History.” Bolletino del Centro di Studi Vichiani XXXIII (2003).
• “Urban Arcadia. Representations of the Dialect of the City of Naples in Linguistic Theory and Comic Theater, 1696—1780.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 35, 1 (Fall 2001).
• “The Science of Man as the Science of Society. Medical Anthropology in the Kingdom of Naples, 1760—1790.” Annali dell’Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici XVI (December 1999).
• “Towards an Anthropology of Europe: Francesco Antonio Grimaldi’s Reflections upon the Inequality among Men.” History of Anthropology Newsletter XXVI, 1 (June 1999).
• “If Angelus Novus were a Geo-photographer...: The Reception of “Abschied und Anfang”—The German Historical Museum’s Inaugural Exhibition in the Zeughaus Berlin.” Radical History Review 60 (Fall 1994).

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