David Kertzer
Provost:
Provost's Office
Phone: +1 401 863 2706
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2707
David_Kertzer@Brown.EDU
Ph.D. Brandeis U 1974
Brown University Research Profile Page for David Kertzer
Professor David Kertzer's research ranges widely, including: Italian politics and history, anthropological demography, social organization, politics and symbols, political economy and family systems, age structuring, European historical demography and the history of Catholic Church-Jewish relations.
Interests
Kertzer's major interests include the anthropological study of politics; anthropological demography; and European social history. He is particularly interested in how political identities are created and in the role of religion in politics.
Current Research
For the past several years Kertzer has been directing an NIH- and NSF-funded research project "Explaining Low Fertility in Italy." Together with colleagues at Brown and in Europe, he has been combining original ethnographic research in four Italian cities with the use of national survey data to develop new theoretical understandings of fertility. He has also been working in newly opened Vatican archives, along with Italian state archives, on a book that probes the relationship between Pope Pius XI and Mussolini.
Teaching
Modern Italian History
Anthropological demography
Political anthropology
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