Joanne Ferraro

Joanne M. Ferraro (PhD, UCLA), the Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at SDSU, is the recipient of the Timeos Award for teaching excellence, the SDSU Alumni Award of Distinction, and the title Distinguished Professor for her prolific record of research and publication.  Among her books are The Renaissance and The Wider World (Bloomsbury, 2024); Venice:  History of the Floating City (Cambridge, 2012).  She is General Editor of Bloomsbury’s 6 vol. Cultural History of Marriage. Joanne’s research was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Gladys Krieble Foundation, and SDSU.