Natalie Rothman

E. Natalie Rothman is a Professor of History at the University of Toronto and in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She is interested in the history of Orientalism, translation, and archives, particularly in the early modern Mediterranean. She was a member of the inaugural cohort of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (2014-2021).

Prof. Rothman has been generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Newberry Library, a Jackman Humanities Fellowship at the University of Toronto, and an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Government.

Areas of study: The history of cultural mediation, the genealogies of Orientalism, and the relationship between translation and empire.

Her current collaborative research centres on the question of trans-imperial archives, exploring the entangled history of Venetian and Ottoman chancery practices and archival formations in the early modern period.