William J. Connell

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Full Name	William J. Connell
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Jul 22, 1958(1958-07-22)
Age	66
Country	United States
Birth City	New York City
Horoscope	Cancer

William J. Connell Biography

William J. Connell is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on July 22, 1958 in New York City, United States. William John (“Bill”) Connell (born July 22nd 1958) is an American historian who holds the Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University. He is a leading expert of Italian historiography, Early Modern European history and the history of Italian Americans. In 2019 , he was named as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow.

Connell has taught in Connell has lectured at the Institute for Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow Connell has also lectured at and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and Connell has lectured at Fondazione Luigi Firpo located in Turin. In 2011, he was an accreditation guest in King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is on the editorial boards of 13 monograph and journal series and has written reviews and articles on occasion in The Times Literary Supplement, the Times Literary Supplement, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, Clarin (Argentina) and Timpul (Romania).

A fascination with the territory which surrounded and supported the capital city Florence in the period of Renaissance led to the publication of his book La citta of crucci: fazioni and clientele in uno state repubblicano of 400, a study into the social networks that underlie the divisions of republican Florence as well as her subject city Pistoia. The study of Lombard nobleman Gaspare Pallavicino resulted in a fresh interpretation of the narrative framework as well as the study about the courter’s female character within Baldassarre Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier. Sacrilege as well as Redemption within Renaissance Florence (2005; rev. 2d ed. 2008) which was co- written by Giles Constable, recounts the incident of a man that was executed for throwing dung at a picture depicting Mary, the Virgin Mary and has been published in Italian, Spanish, Russian, Romanian and Farsi translations.

William J. Connell Net Worth

William J. Connell is one of the richest Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William J. Connell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Connell studied at Trinity School (New York City), Bronxville High School and Yale University, where he was a member of Saybrook College and the Manuscript Society and was awarded his B.A. in the year 1980. His summa cumlaude. After a stint with U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker and a job as a gardener on the island of Elba and later as a banker for The Manufacturers Hanover Trust Corporation. He also worked later as a research assistant for the columnist Joseph Alsop before entering graduate school in History at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. He earned his Ph.D. in 1989.

Connell taught the history department in the history department at Reed College in Portland, OR and in Rutgers University before moving to Seton Hall University in 1998. From 2003 to 2007 he was Founding Director of the Charles and Joan Alberto Italian Studies Institute. He was a Fulbright scholar to Italy and I Tatti Fellow, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and a juror for the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome. Since 1992, he has served as the Secretary for The Journal of the History of Ideas. He is a Fellow Corresponding with the Deputazione di Storia Patria per la Toscana and the Societa Pistoiese di Storia Patria and is a participant in the Grolier Club of New York City. From 2002 to 2005 and again between 2009 and 2010 in 2009-2010, he was on the New Jersey Italian and Italian American Commission as a governor’s appointee. He was the co-chair of the Trustees as well as Chair of the Academic Advisors for the Italian American Heritage Institute at Rutgers University from 2002 to 2005. In 2011, he received the Presidential Award of the Columbian Foundation. The NPR show, “Machiavelli Faces Unemployment,” was awarded the Listener Choice Award as the most listened-to “Academic Minute” of 2011-2012. In 2013, The Irish Voice named him to its Education 100 list, which is a compilation of the top US teachers with Irish heritage. Seton Hall University awarded him its Granato Italian Culture Medal in 2016.

Connell’s archival research on the life and career of Niccolò Machiavelli resulted in a widely praised translation of The Prince (2005, rev. 2d ed. 2016) and several important essays. In 2013 Connell solved a longstanding philological problem, previously considered a puzzle “awaiting its Rosetta Stone,” by showing that Machiavelli completed The Prince in its final version in the spring of 1515. His essays were collected in the Italian volume Machiavelli nel Rinascimento italiano (2015). In 2016, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the publication of Utopia by Thomas More, he demonstrated connections between Machiavelli and the circle around More and Erasmus.

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