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Early Modern Workshop
Graduate Student Participants
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John Acevedo |
English legal history; trans-Atlantic movement of ideas and
culture. |
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Nicolay Antov |
Bulgarian
history |
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Adam
Darlage |
Catholic polemics against Protestants and
Anabaptists in the late 16th century; confessionalization and social control in
the |
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Chris Dudley |
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. |
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Sean
Dunwoody |
Political
and institutional repercussions of the Reformation upon the |
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Susan Gaunt |
Colonial
American history |
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Maria Green-Mercado |
Early
modern Spain; Moriscos; inter-communal
relations in 16th-century Spain; early modern Mediterranean
history. |
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David Lyons |
The relationship between theology, religious
practices, political movements, and legal systems in the early modern period.
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Gerry Siarny |
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. |
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Heather
Welland |
The British Empire in the 18th
century; comparative history of |
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Richard
Weyhing |
Early modern European imperialism and
encounters with non-Western societies; colonial |
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Colin F. Wilder |
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 17th and 18th 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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