Edward Muir is the Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and the author of Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (Princeton); Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta in Renaissance Italy (Johns Hopkins); Ritual in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge); The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera (Harvard). He is the coauthor of the western civilization textbook, The West: Encounters and Transformations (Pearson) now in its 4th edition.
In 2010 he received the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award and is a member of the European Academy.