Yasmin Haskell

Yasmin Haskell is an Australian classicist and intellectual historian, currently Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. She is known for her research on the early modern Jesuits, neo-Latin literature, and history of emotions.
==Education and Career==
Yasmin Haskell graduated from the University of Sydney with a B.A. in 1989 (Hons First Class) and a Ph.D. in 1996. From 1995-1999 she was a Research Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, and from 1999-2003, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She is currently Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia, a position she has held since 2003. Between 2017-2018, Haskell was Chair of Latin at the University of Bristol and Director of the Institute of Greece Rome and the Classical Tradition at the same institution. Haskell has also been Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge, Fowler Hamilton Research Fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford, and Visiting Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She was Martin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study for the academic year 2022-2023. She is node leader of the team ‘Emotions in Space’ in UWA’s International Space Centre.
==Research==
Haskell's research spans language, culture and religion. As a Foundation Chief Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the 'History of Emotions in Europe: 1100-1800' from 2010-2017, Haskell led projects on 'Jesuit Emotions' and 'Passions for Learning’. In 2022, Yasmin Haskell, together with Michael Champion (ACU) and Joseph Lo Bianco (UMelb), was awarded an ARC Discovery Project grant for "The Ancient Today: Living Traditions of Classical Language Education". The project aims to illumine the purpose and value of classical language education in Chinese, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit historically and within global education systems today, by comparing pedagogic ideals and practices across times and cultures. Other members of the project team include Arlene Holmes Henderson (University of Durham), Antonia Ruppel (University of Munich), Peng Guoxiang (Zhejiang University), and Mattia Salvini (International Buddhist College).
Haskell has written extensively on topics related to Latin literature and culture from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. In addition, she has contributed chapters to numerous edited volumes, including "The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius", “Cambridge Guide to Neo-Latin Literature”, “Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World”, “The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits”, and “Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Studies". 
==Awards and Honors==
Yasmin Haskell was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2013. 
In 2018, Haskell delivered the 39th Erasmus Birthday Lecture “Erasmus and the Health of Scholars: Physical, Emotional, Spiritual,” a prestigious annual lecture at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In 2021, Haskell was inducted into the Academy of Arcadia (Accademia dell'Arcadia) as a Shepherdess, with the pastoral pseudonym "Nicandra Jassea."
In April 2023, Haskell delivered the Edward Craigie Memorial Lecture in Religion at the University of Calgary.
==Selected Publications==
"Neo-Latin" in Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Studies. (2009).
(with S. Broomhall) “Humanism and Medicine in the Early Modern Period”
(with C. Allen and F. Muecke) Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, De Arte Graphica (1664) …(2005)
 
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