Karen Corsano CURRICULUM VITAE


	born		6 March 1946, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

		
	Title		retired

	education:	BA 	(History) Emmanuel College, Boston, 1963-1967
			MSL	(Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies, History Section) Pontifical Institute of 
				Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 1967-1971

	work:
			Lecturer in Mediaeval History at Emmanuel College, Boston, 1973-1974
        			Teacher of English as a Second Language at The British School, Naples, Italy, 
				Istituto Orientale, Naples, Italy, and privately, 1974-1981.	
			Lecturer in history at the University of LaVerne at the U.S. Navy Base, Agnano, 
				NA, Italy, and the University of Maryland at the NATO Base, Bagnoli, NA, 
				Italy 1976-80
			Travel agent, Crimson Travel, Boston, MA, 1981-1983
			Programmer, Nurses’ Health Study, Channing Laboratory, 1985-retirement in 2012 
				(Lead Programmer, 1987-2012)

	Publications:
			“The First Quire of the Codex Amiatinus and the Institutiones of Cassiodorus,”  
				Scriptorium 41 (1987) 3-34.
			“Lactation And Risk Of Breast Cancer In A Cohort Of Us Women,” Stephanie J. London, 
				Graham A. Colditz, Meir J. Stampfer, Walter C. Willett, Bernard A. Rosner, 
				Karen Corsano and Frank E. Speizer, American Journal of Epidemiology 132 
				(1990) 17-26.		
			“Test of the National Death Index and Equifax Nationwide Death Search,” Janet W. 
				Rich-Edwards, Karen A. Corsano and Meir J. Stampfer, American Journal of 
				Epidemiology 140 (1994) 1016-1019.
			“Les Statutes de la Cour Temporelle d’Avignon en 1375,”  Daniel Williman, Karen 
				Corsano, Anne-Marie Hayez, Mémoirs de l’Académie de Vaucluse 8. Serie, 8 
				(1999) 9-27. 
			“Tracing Provenances by dictio probatoria,” Daniel Williman and Karen Corsano, 
				Scriptorium 53 (1999) 124-145.
			“Medieval Latin Manuscripts in Scotland: some Provenances,” Daniel Williman and Karen 
				Corsano, Transactions of the Ediburgh Bibliographical Society 6,5 (2002) 178-190.
			“The Interdict of Florence (31 March 1376): New Documents,” Daniel Williman and Karen 
				Corsano, Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia 56 (2002) 427-481.
			Early Provenances of Latin Manuscripts of the Vatican Library: Vaticani Latini and 
				Boghesiani, Daniel Williman and Karen Corsano, Studi e testi 405, (Biblioteca 
				Apostolica Vaticana, 2002).  

	Current:
			Provenances of Latin Manuscripts by Probatoria; The Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis in 
				the British Library; stemma codicum and manuscript tradition of the world 
				chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis; a pirate cruise and papal policy (1355-1357); 
				Rose-Marie Ormond (d. 1918).

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