Maryanne Cline Horowitz
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June 2003
Professor of History and Title IX Officer, Occidental College
Associate, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

        Professor Horowitz is the Editor-in-Chief of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005), awarded by American Library Association as an Outstanding Reference Source. She is author of the book Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998). WINNER of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society. The book explores the notion that the human mind is a garden. Under the proper educational cultivation, the  mind may nourish the seeds of virtue and knowledge into the full flowering of human wisdom.