History professor awarded the American Historical Association's Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize

Published: January 7, 2010

Thomas Kuehn image by: Clemson University

CLEMSON — Thomas Kuehn, professor of history at Clemson University and department chairman, has been awarded the 2009 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association for the best work in any epoch of Italian history, Italian cultural history or Italian-American relations. The award honors Kuehn's 2008 book, “Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence.”

The award will be presented to Kuehn in this month at the American Historical Association's annual convention in San Diego.

Kuehn was honored in 2003 when he was awarded a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which he used to study repudiated inheritances in Renaissance Florence.

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 other 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).

Kuehn, a native of Chicago, and has been teaching at Clemson since 1981.

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