Brian P. Copenhaver

He has served as a Dean or Provost for eighteen years, eleven of them in the University of California. He is also a distinguished authority on philosophy and science in late medieval and early modern Europe. He serves or has served on the board of Journal of the History of Philosophy and on those of Renaissance Quarterly, Annals of Science, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Early Science and Medicine, the International Archives of the History of Ideas, and the I Tatti Renaissance Library. His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the Medieval Academy of America and by a Fulbright Scholarship. He has been the principal investigator on institutional grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation.