Ray Schrire
Election
Position
Name
Ray Schrire
Candidate statement
Affiliation: Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL
https://telaviv.academia.edu/RaySchrire
I am a cultural and intellectual historian of early modern England. My research deals with questions about the history of cognition and takes a comparatist approach to book history. I regard manuscripts, printed books, and marginalia as cognitive fossils that can shed light on the ways ideas, materiality and social norms shaped the basic faculties of the mind. I have recently joined the faculty of Tel-Aviv University, where I introduced courses in book history rooted in the hands-on pedagogy I encountered while studying at UC Berkeley and the Rare Books School. Over the years I have learned so much from the global community that is SHARP. It serves as a model of a true grassroots, democratic, intellectual society, and I hope to be able to contribute to it as a Member of the Board of Directors.
https://telaviv.academia.edu/RaySchrire
I am a cultural and intellectual historian of early modern England. My research deals with questions about the history of cognition and takes a comparatist approach to book history. I regard manuscripts, printed books, and marginalia as cognitive fossils that can shed light on the ways ideas, materiality and social norms shaped the basic faculties of the mind. I have recently joined the faculty of Tel-Aviv University, where I introduced courses in book history rooted in the hands-on pedagogy I encountered while studying at UC Berkeley and the Rare Books School. Over the years I have learned so much from the global community that is SHARP. It serves as a model of a true grassroots, democratic, intellectual society, and I hope to be able to contribute to it as a Member of the Board of Directors.