Professor Kuehn, who came to Clemson in 1981, is the department chair. He teaches courses in the Renaissance, the Reformation, and Medieval History, and is a specialist in the legal and social culture of Renaissance Italy.

His books include Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence (2002), Law, Family, and Women (1991), and an edited collection, Time, Space, and Women’s Lives in Early Modern Europe (2001).

In 2003, Professor Kuehn was awarded with a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which he will use to study repudiated inheritances in Renaissance Florence.