Robert Clines

Robert Clines (he/him) is an Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University. His first book, A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean, was published in 2019. His essays and public pieces have appeared in postmedieval, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, and The Washington Post. He has received research support from the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The American Academy in Rome, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the US-Italy Fulbright Commission.

Robert Clines will be working on a book that explores how racecraft informed Italian humanists’ relationship with the textual and physical remains of antiquity, and how Italian Renaissance humanism never was a respite from racial difference, contestation, and conflict. Instead, humanism is defined through race. Further, this book will give us a richer view of the historicity of race in Europe as well as the ties between the classical tradition and European nationalism and imperialism.