William J. Connell
Professor of History

Address: Walsh Library, Room 323
Phone: (973) 275-2928
E-mail: connelwi@shu.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1989
• MA, University of California, Berkeley 1984
• BA, Yale University 1980

Courses at Seton Hall:

• HIST 1201-1202, Western Civilization I-II
• HIST 2180, Introduction to Historical Research
• HIST 2233, Dante and His World
• HIST 2234, Medieval Italy
• HIST 2235, Modern Italy
• HIST 2240, Renaissance and Reformation
• HIST 2365, Italian American History
• HIST 5199, Senior Seminar

Awards, grants and fellowships:

• American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize Juror, 2006, 2007.
• Honoree, New Jersey Heritage Festival Ball, 2006.
• Mille Grazie Award, UNICO National, 2004.
• Honoree, Federation of Italian American Societies of New Jersey Gala, 2003.
• Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Member, 2002-3.
• UNICO National, District X, citation for “promoting the accomplishments of Italians and Italian-Americans,” 2000.
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, 1999 (Declined in order to accept chair at Seton Hall University).
• UNICO National, District VII, citation for service to the Valente Italian Library, 1999. “The Ingot,” Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia, for cultural contributions, 1994.
• Leopold Schepp Foundation Grant, 1992-93.
• Villa I Tatti / Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Robert Lehman Fellow, 1992-93.
• Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Faculty Fellow, 1991-92.
• Chancellor's Dissertation Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1988-89.
• Distinguished Graduate Teaching Prize, UC Berkeley, 1988.
• Giannini Italian-American Traveling Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1985-87.
• Fulbright Scholar to Italy, 1985-86.
• University of California Regents' Fellowship, 1984-85.
• DAAD Summer Fellowship to Germany, 1984.
• Saybrook College Fellows' Prize, Yale University, 1980.
• Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University, 1979.

Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Antonio Rinaldeschi (with Giles Constable). (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2005).

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince with Related Documents. Bedford Series in History and Culture. Translation with introduction and commentary. (Boston: Bedford /
St. Martin’s, 2005).

“Gasparo and the Ladies: Coming of Age in Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier,”
Quaderni d’italianistica, 23, no. 1 (2002), pp. 5-23

Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence (edited). (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002).

“Machiavelli on Growth as an End,” in Anthony Grafton and J.H.M. Salmon (eds.), Historians and Ideologues: Essays in Honor of Donald R. Kelley (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2001), pp. 259-77.

La città dei crucci: fazioni e clientele in uno stato repubblicano del `400 (Florence: Nuova Toscana Editrice, 2000).

“The Republican Idea,” in James Hankins (ed.), Renaissance Civic Humanism:
Reappraisals and Reflections, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000),
pp. 14-29.

Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power (edited with Andrea Zorzi). (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

“Changing Patterns of Medicean Patronage: The Florentine Dominion During the Fifteenth Century,” in Gian Carlo Garfagnini (ed.), Lorenzo il Magnifico e il suo mondo (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1994), pp. 87-107.

“Libri di famiglia and the Family History of Florentine Patricians,” Italian Culture, 8 (1990): 279-92.