Mar 29, 2005 -- William Stenhouse, PhD, assistant professor of history at both Stern College for Women and Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University’s undergraduate schools of liberal arts and sciences for women and men, respectively, received a fellowship from The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, which sponsors research relating to Italian history, society, and science. Dr. Stenhouse will analyze how museums, specifically in Italy, affected historical research and writing between 1550 and 1620, a time when collectors held important cultural roles and historians used material objects to reconstruct past events, expanding the range of sources used to write history. “I want to connect these three developments to argue that it was antiquarians’ exposure to objects in the nascent museum that inspired them to develop ways of using this type of material as historical evidence,” he said. Dr. Stenhouse’s research is generally focused on the history of archeology. He received a BA from Balliol College, University of Oxford; an MA with distinction in combined historical studies from the Warburg Institute, University of London; and a PhD from University College London.