Dale V. Kent
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of London, 1971
(951) 827-7138 dale.kent@ucr.edu
Fields of Interest: early modern European history with
an emphasis on the Renaissance period.
Dale Kent was born and raised
in Australia where she received her B.A. at the University of
Melbourne in 1965. She did her graduate work in England where
she received her Ph.D. from the University of London in 1971.
Among the many awards she has received are: Fellow of Harvard
University at the Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in
Florence; a Fellowship at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for
Historical Studies, Princeton University; Fellow of the National
Humanities Center, North Carolina; a Fellow of the J. Paul Getty
Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; and most recently,
Fellow at the Australian National University Humanities Research
Center; and Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual
Arts, National Gallery of Art. Kent's publications include The
Rise of the Medici: Faction in Florence 1426-1434; Neighbours
and Neighbourhoods in Renaissance Florence: The District of
the Red Lion in the Fifteenth Century; plus several edited
or co-edited works. She is currently working on The Vocabulary
of Power in Early Medicean Florence; a study of social, political
and artistic patronage and the relations between them.
