Paula Findlen (Stanford Humanities Center class of 1998-99 and 2011-12) is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University. A specialist in the history of the Renaissance, she is the author and editor of numerous books, including the prize-winning Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (University of California Press, 1994) and Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800 (Routledge, 2013). Findlen has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Getty Foundation.
