Elisabeth Gleason: Venice Moves East: The Republic and Greek Islands.

Elisabeth Gleason holds a Ph.D. in early modern European history from UC Berkeley.  Professor Gleason taught for twenty-nine years at the University of San Francisco, where she is now professor emerita.  She was chair of the USF History Department for a number of years, and has also taught at San Francisco State University, Stanford University, the University of Padua, and Loyola University in Rome.  Her special field of interest is the intellectual and religious history of Renaissance Italy.  Her publications have dealt with the history of Venice, the impact of the Reformation on Italian thought, and movements for church reform in sixteenth century Italy.  She was president of the Society for Reformation Research, the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, the Catholic Historical Association, and board member of numerous other scholarly organizations.  In 1997, she received the Sarlo Prize from the University of San Francisco.