Pamela O. Long

Pamela O. Long is a historian of premodern and Early Modern European history and the history of science and technology. She has been the recipient of many awards and grants, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2015-2020). Her latest book is Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018). Her new projects include a history of machine books and machine drawings in fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe, tentatively entitled "The Lure of the Machine." Her website is www.pamelaolong.com