Benjamin Schmidt, Professor, Early Modern Europe, Expansion and Globalism, Early Modern Spain and the Netherlands. Education. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1994. Selected Bibliography: Books - Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670 (Cambridge University Press, 2001; paperback ed. 2006). Winner, Renaissance Society of America's Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize for best book in Renaissance studies (all disciplines), 2002-2003, Winner, the Holland Society's Hendricks Prize for best book in colonial Dutch studies, 2002-2003. Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800 (University of Chicago Press, 2008) (with Pamela Smith).