National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 2007-2010
B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
lkaborycha[at]medici[dot]org
Dr. Lisa Kaborycha is a native of New York City, who after moving to California studied at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her Ph.D. in Medieval and Early Modern European History there in 2006. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “Copying Culture: Fifteenth-Century Florentines and Their Zibaldoni” examines the materials compiled by Florentines in their personal literary anthologies during the Quattrocento, revealing contemporary attitudes on manners, civility, health care, child rearing, marriage and sexuality.