Rate My Professor Michael Carhart

Michale C. Carhart serves as Professor in the Department of History at Old Dominion University. He received his Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University in 1999, an M.A. in History with a focus on Medieval Europe from Pennsylvania State University in 1994, and a B.A. in Philosophy and History from Bethel University in 1989.

Carhart specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of early modern and modern Europe. His major publications include the book The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany, published by Harvard University Press in 2007, and Leibniz Discovers Asia: Social Networking in the Republic of Letters, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2019. Additional works encompass articles such as “Practices of Intellectual Labor in the Republic of Letters: Leibniz & Edward Bernard on Language & European Origins” in the Journal of the History of Ideas in 2019, “Polynesia and Polygenism: The Scientific Use of Travel Literature in the Early Nineteenth Century” in History of the Human Sciences in 2009, and book chapters including contributions to China in the German Enlightenment (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and Momigliano and Antiquarianism (University of Toronto Press, 2007). He has held numerous fellowships and honors, including the Hiob Ludolf Fellow at the Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt in 2018, Fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel in 2014, Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies in 2010, Junior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study in 2009, Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2007, Summer Research Fellowship from Old Dominion University in 2005, Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in 2001, and Fellow of the Fulbright Foundation in 1996. Carhart has contributed to academic service through roles such as involvement with the Faculty Mediation Committee and leadership in the Old Dominion University chapter of the American Association of University Professors.