E. Natalie Rothman is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, specializing in the history of Venice and the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period. Her broader interests include the history of cultural mediation and the relationship between translation and empire. She was trained as an historical anthropologist, first at Tel Aviv University (MA in Culture Research, summa cum laude, 1999) and then at the University of Michigan (PhD in Anthropology and History, 2006). Her book, Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2011), explores how diplomatic interpreters, converts, and commercial brokers mediated and helped define political, linguistic, and religious boundaries between the Venetian and Ottoman empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rothman's articles have appeared in Mediterranean Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and elsewhere. She continues to examine the intersecting histories of early modern trans-imperial subjects in her new project, The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Making of the Levant, funded by an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Newberry Library.

Location

Toronto, ON, Canada

Disciplines

• History
• Anthropology

Affiliation

University of Toronto

Website

http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~rothman