Pamela O. Long (born 1943) is an independent American historian specializing in late medieval and Renaissance history and the history of science and technology. In 2007, she was chosen as a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the a ...

and in 2014, she was made a

MacArthur Fellow The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

. Long graduated from the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

, and from Catholic University of America.

Works

*''Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in the Late Sixteenth-Century Rome'', University of Chicago Press, 2018, *''Science and technology in medieval society'', New York Academy of Sciences, 1985, * *''Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600'', Oregon State University Press, 2011, *With David McGee and Alan M. Stahl, ''The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript'', 3 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009).

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*http://www.pamelaolong.com/ 1943 births Living people University of Maryland, College Park alumni Catholic University of America alumni MacArthur Fellows American historians of science Historians of technology American medievalists American women medievalists Leonardo da Vinci Medal recipients 20th-century American historians 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American women writers {{US-sci-historian-stub