Department of History

Haley Price is a History PhD Candidate at Brown University and the Digital Humanities Specialist for UT Austin’s JapanLab. Price is interested in the relationship between power, piety, patronage, networks, and gender in early modern Italy. She studied History and Humanities as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, where she engineered her own interdisciplinary degree plan to create educational history-based video games. This study culminated in The Pazzi Conspiracy, which aims to teach students about patronage and power in 15th century Florence. Her doctoral dissertation visualizes and analyzes Maria Maddalena von Habsburg de’ Medici’s (1589 – 1631) network, using her epistolary record and family tree to map her kith, kin, and correspondents across early modern Europe both through digital visualizations and traditional prose.