David H. Price

Professor of Jewish Studies, Religous Studies, History of Art, and History

B.A., University of Cincinnati

Ph.D., Yale University

Early modern art, history of prints, Christian-Jewish relations, history of antisemitism

David H. Price is a professor in the departments of Jewish studies, religious studies, art history, and history at Vanderbilt University. He earned his BA in Classics from the University of Cincinnati and PhD in German Studies from Yale University. Price has held previous professorships at Yale University, University of Texas at Austin, Southern Methodist University, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has authored and edited numerous books, including In the Beginning Was the Image: Art and the Reformation Bible (Oxford University Press, 2021); The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (Illinois of Illinois Press, 2015); Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Albrecht Dürer’s Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith (University of Michigan Press, 2003). His work has been supported by the American Academy in Berlin, Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel; Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt; Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Illinois; and Beinecke Library at Yale University, among others.

He is currently completing a new book on “Listening to Jewish Voices: The Impact of Jewish Writers on the Discourse of Religious Toleration in Early Modern Europe.”