
Dr Camilla Russell
Conjoint Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science (History)
Career Summary
Biography
Camilla Russell joined Newcastle University in 2009. She completed her undergraduate studies and an MA in History at the University of Melbourne, before going on to her PhD in History at Royal Holloway, University of London, awarded in 2003. Camilla has taught at Monash University, Melbourne, Queen Mary, University of London, and the University of Newcastle in the North of England. In 2008 she was appointed Hanna Kiel Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence.
Between 2012 and 2013, she held the positions of Visiting Scholar at ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome (Department of History, Cultures and Languages) and at ‘Roma Tre’ University (Department of History, Geography and Anthropology). Camilla Russell is the author of Giulia Gonzaga and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century Italy (Brepols, 2006), as well as a number of articles on the religious and cultural history of early modern Italy. Her current research includes European responses to the overseas missionary enterprise in the early modern period, and the development of a "collective biography" of Italian Jesuits, 1540-1640.
All of her work is underpinned by archival research, and by an abiding interest in the cultural history of religion and of religious life for women and for men; the history of information, of self-narrative documents, and epistolary exchange in Europe and beyond. Her teaching interests range from Late Medieval, to Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, especially the religious and cultural history of Europe, and Europe in the wider world.
Research Expertise
Camilla Russell is the author of Giulia Gonzaga and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century Italy (Brepols, 2006). Her monograph is to be re-issued in Italian translation in 2015 (Giulia Gonzaga e le controversie religiose dell'Italia del XVI secolo, trans. F. Minonzio, Polyhistor). She is the author of a number of articles on the religious and cultural history of early modern Italy, especially heterodox reforming currents at the time of Europe's Reformations.
Her current research is in the field of Jesuit Studies, with several published and forthcoming articles about the Jesuit overseas missions, and a forthcoming monograph on the first century of Italian Jesuits (1540-1640), recounted substantially in the Jesuits' own words through "ego-document" self-narratives that were produced throughout the Jesuit career.
Teaching Expertise
Areas of supervision cover any aspect of late-medieval and early-modern European history, especially cultural and religious history, globalizing Europe, gender, and the history of communication. Dr Russell currently supervises 3 Doctoral students, and has been responsible for 6 Honours supervisions, 2 of which won Faculty Medals (one subsequently was awarded an International Scholarship for an MA in European History at Warwick University, UK, another was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award for doctoral studies at Newcastle).
Administrative Expertise
Camilla Russell was a member of the Board of the Faculty of Education and Arts between 2010 and 2013.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of London
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Melbourne
- Master of Arts (History), University of Melbourne
Keywords
- Cultural History
- Cultural and religious history
- Early Modern Europe
- Early Modern European History
- Europe and the world
- Europe in its global context
- Italian History
- Jesuit Studies
- Reformation History
- Religious History
- Renaissance Italy
Professional Experience
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/3/2013 - 1/6/2013 | Visiting Scholar | ‘Roma Tre’ University, Department of History, Geography and Anthropology Italy |
1/9/2012 - 1/12/2012 | Visiting Scholar | ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Department of History, Cultures and Languages, September–December 2012 Italy |
1/7/2008 - 1/6/2009 | Hanna Kiel Fellow | Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence Italy |
1/1/2012 - | Editorial Board - Storia delle Donne | Storia delle Donne (History of Women) Italy |
1/1/2008 - | Membership - Renaissance Society of America | Renaissance Society of America United States |
1/1/2008 - 31/12/2010 | Membership - Society for Renaissance Studies | Society for Renaissance Studies Australia |
1/1/2008 - 31/12/2010 | Membership - Sixteenth Century Society | Sixteenth Century Society Australia |
1/1/2010 - | Membership - Catholic Reformation Research Network | Catholic Reformation Research Network Australia |
1/1/2003 - | Membership - Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS) | Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS) Australia |
Awards
Research Award
Year | Award |
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2010 |
Honourable Mention, Collaborative Project Award Unknown |
Invitations
Participant
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2011 |
‘A Society without a history: Jesuit attitudes to the past in the first 100 years, 1540-1640’ Organisation: University of Sydney Description: Conference - Historiography and Antiquarianism |
2010 |
'Asia in the formation of Jesuit missionary vocations in late-Renaissance Italy' Organisation: Renaissance Society of America Conference Description: 'Asia in the formation of Jesuit missionary vocations in late-Renaissance Italy', Renaissance Society of America Conference, Venice, 8-10 April 2010: Panel co-organiser, 'Promoting the East in late-Renaissance Italy' |
2009 |
‘Assessing Candidates for the Jesuit Overseas Missions in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy’ Organisation: Sixteenth Century Studies Conference Description: ‘Assessing Candidates for the Jesuit Overseas Missions in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy’, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Geneva, 28-30 May 2009: Panel organiser, ‘Keeping Body and Soul Together: Religious Community Life in Early Modern Italy’ |
2008 |
‘Dying for Christ: The theme of martyrdom in Jesuit missionary correspondence’ Organisation: Society for Renaissance Studies Conference, Dublin Description: ‘Dying for Christ: The theme of martyrdom in Jesuit missionary correspondence’, Society for Renaissance Studies Conference, Dublin, 10–12 July, 2008: Panel: ‘To Die or Not to Die; and how?’ |
Speaker
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2008 |
‘News from the Indies: The Jesuit overseas missions and the history of Information in late-Renaissance Italy’ Organisation: Scribal Culture and Political Intelligence in Italy, 1500–1650, Birkbeck College, University of London Description: ‘News from the Indies: The Jesuit overseas missions and the history of Information in late-Renaissance Italy’, Birkbeck, London, 12–13 September 2008, invited as speaker for the conference, ‘Scribal Culture and Political Intelligence in Italy, 1500–1650’ |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Media (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2012 | Russell CE, ERROR INVALID CATEGORY: FOR PUBLICATION RP_UID 22366 (2012) [C3] |
Book (2 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2019 | The Art and Language of Power in Renaissance Florence: Essays for Alison Brown, Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Essays and Studies Series, Toronto (2019) | ||
2006 | Russell C, Giulia Gonzaga and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century Italy, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, Belgium, 237 (2006) [A1] |
Chapter (8 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2019 | Russell C, 'The Renaissance comes to Bloomsbury: Studies in the Italian Renaissance in Twentieth-Century London', The Art and Language of Power in Renaissance Florence: Essays for Alison Brown, Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto 379-406 (2019) [B1] | ||
2018 | Russell C, ' Dangerous Friendships: Girolamo Seripando, Giulia Gonzaga, and the spirituali in Tridentine Italy ', The Council of Trent: Reform and Controversy in Europe and Beyond (1545-1700), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 251-276 (2018) [B1] | ||
2013 | Russell CE, 'Vocation to the East: Italian Jesuits Selected for the China Mission, 1590-1615', Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors II, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy 313-327 (2013) [B1] | ||
2011 | Russell CE, 'Imagining the 'Indies': Italian Jesuit petitions for the overseas missions at the turn of the seventeenth century', L'Europa Divisa e i Nuovi Mondi: Per Adriano Prosperi Vol. II, Edizioni Della Normale, Pisa 179-189 (2011) [B1] | ||
2009 | Russell CE, 'Women, letters and heresy in sixteenth-century Italy: Giulia Gonzaga's Heterodox epistolary network', Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters, Ashgate Publishing, Surrey 75-93 (2009) [B1] | ||
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Journal article (5 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | |||||
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2017 |
Russell C, Mostaccio S, 'Review Essay: "A proposito di «La vocazione: Storie di gesuiti tra Cinquecento e Seicento» di Adriano Prosperi"', Quaderni storici, 52 623-638 (2017)
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2017 | Russell C, 'ABOUT "THE MISSION STORIES OF JESUITS BETWEEN SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY" BY ADRIANO PROSPERI', QUADERNI STORICI, 52 623-638 (2017) | |||||||
2014 |
Russell CE, 'Religious Reforming Currents in Sixteenth-Century Italy: The Spirituali and the Tridentine Debates over Church Reform', Journal of Religious History, 38 457-475 (2014) [C1]
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Russell C, 'Becoming Indians : The Jesuit Missionary Path from Italy to Asia', Renaissance and Reformation, 43 9-50 [C1]
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Review (6 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2015 |
Russell C, 'Early Modern Jesuits between Obedience and Conscience during the Generalate of Claudio Acquaviva (1581-1615)', EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY (2015) [C3]
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2012 | Russell CE, 'The ideas of man and woman in renaissance France: Print, rhetoric, and law [Book Review]', Parergon (2012) [C3] | ||||
2012 | Russell CE, 'C. A. Monson: Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2010', Journal of Religious History (2012) [C3] | ||||
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Other (2 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2015 | Author A Prosperi translated by CE Russell, 'C. Russell Translation of Adriano Prosperi, Two Standards: The Origins and Developments of a Celebrated Ignatian Meditation , in Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2 (2015), 361 86.', Two Standards: The Origins and Developments of a Celebrated Ignatian Meditation : Brill (2015) | ||
2014 | Russell CE, 'Glossario/Glossary: Research Guide and Glossary of Terms by W. Gramatowski S.J. (1992), translated by CE Russell (2014), for the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Online publication: http://www.sjweb.info/arsi/documents/glossary.pdf', Glossario/Glossary: Research Guide and Glossary of Terms (2014) |
Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 9 |
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Total funding | $98,200 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20091 grants / $5,000
Imagining the Indies: Conceptualising the Jesuit Missionary Enterprise in Early Modern Europe.$5,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Camilla Russell |
Scheme | New Staff Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2009 |
Funding Finish | 2010 |
GNo | G0900137 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20051 grants / $5,000
Award & Publication Grant - Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation $5,000
Funding body: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of New York
Funding body | Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of New York |
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Project Team | Camilla Russell |
Scheme | Award & Publication Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2005 |
Funding Finish | 2005 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
20012 grants / $2,400
Research travel grant$1,500
Funding body: University of London Central Research Fund
Funding body | University of London Central Research Fund |
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Project Team | Camilla Russell |
Scheme | Research Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2001 |
Funding Finish | 2001 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
Gilchrist Educational Trust Grant$900
Funding body: Gilchrist Educational Trust Grant
Funding body | Gilchrist Educational Trust Grant |
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Project Team | Camilla Russell |
Scheme | Research Scholarship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2001 |
Funding Finish | 2001 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
20001 grants / $800
Royal Historical Society Postgraduate Research Funding 2000 & 2001$800
Funding body: Royal Historical Society
Funding body | Royal Historical Society |
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Project Team | Camilla Russell |
Scheme | Postgraduate Research Funding |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2000 |
Funding Finish | 2001 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
19991 grants / $2,000
Rome Award - British School at Rome$2,000
Funding body: British Council
Funding body | British Council |
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Project Team | Camilla Russell |
Scheme | Rome Award |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1999 |
Funding Finish | 1999 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Not Known |
Category | UNKN |
UON | N |
19983 grants / $83,000
Newman College Archbishop Mannix Travelling Scholarship$60,000
Funding body: Newman College, Melbourne
Funding body | Newman College, Melbourne |
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Project Team | Camilla Russell |
Scheme | Travelling Scholarship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1998 |
Funding Finish | 2001 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Not Known |
Category | UNKN |
UON | N |
Overseas Entrance Scholarship and College Research Studentship$13,000
Funding body: Royal Holloway University of London
Funding body | Royal Holloway University of London |
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Project Team | Camilla Russell |
Scheme | Overseas Entrance Scholarship and College Research Studentship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1998 |
Funding Finish | 2001 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | International - Competitive |
Category | 3IFA |
UON | N |
Royal Holloway, University of London Overseas Entrance Scholarship and College Research Studentship$10,000
Funding body: Royal Holloway University of London
Funding body | Royal Holloway University of London |
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Project Team | Camilla Russell |
Scheme | Entrance Scholarship and College Research Studentship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1998 |
Funding Finish | 2001 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2020 | PhD | The Material Foundations of Queenship in Late-Medieval England, 1445-1503 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | The Life and Career of Thomas Boleyn (1477–1539): Courtier, Ambassador, and Statesman | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2010 | Honours | 1707 Act of Union of the English and Scottish Parliaments | History, Unknown | Sole Supervisor |
Dr Camilla Russell
Position
Conjoint Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
History
Contact Details
camilla.russell@newcastle.edu.au |
Office
Room | MC.LG.23 |
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Building | McMullin Building. |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |