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Early Modern Workshop
Graduate Student Participants

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via the Information Super Highway at niloc7@uchicago.edu

John Acevedo jacevedo@uchicago.edu	English legal history; trans-Atlantic movement of ideas and culture.
Nicolay Antov antov@uchicago.edu	Bulgarian history
Adam Darlage adarlage@uchicago.edu	Catholic polemics against Protestants and Anabaptists in the late 16^th century; confessionalization and social control in the Holy Roman Empire; Reformation theology, especially ecclesiology. (Divinity School Ph.D student in the History of Christianity.)
Chris Dudley dudley@uchicago.edu	Eighteenth-century British politics, especially relating to religion, political economy, and foreign policy. More broadly: Post-revolutionary politics, modernization, and the relationship between religion and politics.
Sean Dunwoody dunwoody@uchicago.edu	Political and institutional repercussions of the Reformation upon the Holy Roman Empire; theories of state formation; effects of secularization on legal systems; social control and popular resistance.
Susan Gaunt shgaunt@uchicago.edu	Colonial American history
Maria Green-Mercado mgreen1@uchicago.edu	Early modern Spain; Moriscos; inter-communal relations in 16^th-century Spain; early modern Mediterranean history. (PhD Student in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
David Lyons dplyons@uchicago.edu	The relationship between theology, religious practices, political movements, and legal systems in the early modern period. (Divinity School Ph.D student in the History of Christianity.)
Gerry Siarny gsiarny@uchicago.edu	Society, foreign policy, and empire; political economy; intellectual history; British perceptions of the French, Dutch, and Spanish; the concept of Europe; comparison of early modern European, Moghul, and Chinese societies.
Heather Welland hwelland@uchicago.edu	The British Empire in the 18^th century; comparative history of Atlantic and Eastern imperial projects, particularly before the American Revolution; popular politics, militarism, and cultural contact; concepts of property; Scottish involvement in empire.
Richard Weyhing rweyhing@uchicago.edu	Early modern European imperialism and encounters with non-Western societies; colonial North America; ethnohistory of Native North America.
Colin F. Wilder niloc7@uchicago.edu	Comparative history of property laws in Europe and Britain; history of individual, group and human rights; legacy of the European ancien regime into the post-Revolutionary era; problems of legal positivism and legal realism; Carl Schmitt’s analysis of the old European order. My dissertation concerns how the law of real estate and debt changed in Hesse (Germany) in the 17^th and 18^th centuries, in comparative international perspective. Thematically, this is an approach to the rise of liberal government, i.e. a program that liberates ever more individual humans from controlling institutions into which they are born such as family, parish, municipality and even state.

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