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Education A.B., Princeton University, Magna Cum Laude in History A.M., Brown University, (History) Ph.D., Brown University, (History) Thesis: “Governors and Governed: Class and Gender Relations in English Villages, 1590-1725” Additional Training: Higher Education Resources Services (HERS) Summer...

I am currently working on two different projects. One I imagine as a relatively short book, a spin-off from my engagement with literary scholars, What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare, to be published in 2026 by the University of Manchester Press. I have long been...

About Me I am a historian of Early Modern Britain and the Atlantic World. My research has focused on constructions of hierarchy and power – gender, race, and class – in Britain and in the British Atlantic. I have also been deeply engaged in dialogue with literary scholars, and increasingly, involved...

My first book, An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England (1988) worked between prescriptive literature and local records to examine the nature and intersections between gender and social status. An Ordered Society is, thirty years after its first publication, still considered...