Michael C. Carhart
Professor of History
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia 23529 U.S.A.

Books

• Leibniz Discovers Asia: Social Networking in the Republic of Letters (Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr., 2019).
• The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany (Harvard Univ. Pr., 2007).

Current Research

The search for the indigenous peoples of prehistoric Europe

• Leibniz & Scythian origins (published 2019)
• The linguistics of prehistory: Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro
• The archeology of prehistory: the Hallstatt Protokoll of J. G. Ramsauer

Articles

• "Practices of Intellectual Labor in the Republic of Letters: Leibniz & Edward Bernard on Language & European Origins," Journal of the History of Ideas 80 (2019): 365-86.
• "Leibniz between Paris, Grand Tartary, and the Far East: Gerbillon's Intercepted Letter" in China in the German Enlightenment, ed. Daniel Leonhard Purdy and Bettina Brandt (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr., 2016), 80-96.
• "Polynesia & Polygenism: The Scientific Use of Travel Literature in the Early Nineteenth Century," History of the Human Sciences 22 (2009): 58-86.
• "Historia Literaria & Cultural History from Mylaeus to Eichhorn" in Momigliano & Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences, ed. Peter N. Miller (Univ. of Toronto Pr., 2007): 184-206.

Fellowships

• Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt, 2018
• Herzog August Bibliothek, 2014
• American Council of Learned Societies, 2009-10
• Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, 2009-10
• National Endowment for the Humanities, summer stipend 2007
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2001-02 & 2003
  • Lorenz Krüger Fellow for the History & Philosophy of Science
• Fulbright Fellowship, Germany, 1996-97

Education

• Ph.D. - History, Rutgers University, 1999
• M.A. - Medieval History, Pennsylvania State University, 1994
• B.A. - History & Philosophy, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn., 1989

Courses Taught

• Intellectual History in the 21st Century
• Race, Identity & the European "Heritage"
• Global Exploration & European Science
  • Human Origins & Civil Society
  • Constructing Race
• Historical Theory & Methods
• Old Regime & French Revolution
• Freedom, Rights & Revolution: State-building, 1648-1815
• Discovering Earth's History
• Evolution of Modern Science
• Enlightenment Europe
• Early Modern Europe
• Interpreting the European Past (survey)