EMECC Staff
Centre Director
Dr Naomi Pullin
Research interests include religious and gender history in the early modern British Atlantic, with particular interests in the early Quaker community; the roles of women in Protestant dissent; and sociability, friendship and enmity in the 17th and 18th centuries.
naomi.pullin@warwick.ac.uk
Centre Coordinator
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Amy Evans
Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the centre, including financial administration and assisting in the organisation of events, conferences, seminars and other meetings.
amy.evans@warwick.ac.uk
Staff Members
Dr Michael Bycroft
Science and technology in early modern Europe, with a special interest in France, state patronage, global connections, and materials such as precious stones, gold, dyestuffs, and porcelain.
Dr Jonathan Davies
Violence and insults and crime and punishment in early modern Europe (including the British isles); the history of the Italian states (especially Tuscany and the Republic of Venice) between 1350 and 1600.
Dr Aysu Dincer Hadjianastasis
Social and economic history of the Eastern Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages; History of the crusades and the crusader states; History of Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus; History of Venice; Social and economic history of early medieval England; England and Scotland in the fifteenth century.
Professor Rebecca Earle
History of food, Spanish America, nationalism, letter-writing, clothing.
Professor Anne Gerritsen
Early modern Chinese history; global history; material culture of early modern China, especially porcelain; history of Jiangxi
Professor Mark Knights
The political culture of early modern Britain and its empire c.1500-c.1800, with particular interests in the history of corruption, the integration of political and social history, the nature of public discourse, the role of print, and the interaction of politics, literature and ideas.
Professor Beat Kümin
The cultural history of German-speaking Europe and England (c. 1400-1800), political agency, religious life and social exchange in local communities during the early modern period.
Professor David Lambert
Caribbean and Atlantic histories; British imperialism, exploration and cartography in the 'long' 19th century; counterfactual histories; histories of Whiteness; historical geography
Professor Tim Lockley
Colonial North America; southern history; slavery; Native Americans
Dr Sophie Mann
Medicine, science and religion in early modern England; the history of the body; the history of anatomy.
Professor Peter Marshall
Religious and cultural history of early modern England, especially the Reformation and its impact
Dr Guido van Meersbergen
Early modern diplomacy, cross-cultural encounters, Renaissance ethnography, colonialism in South Asia
Professor Penny Roberts
The social, religious, cultural and political history of sixteenth-century France, especially its wars of religion (c.1562-1598).
Dr Claudia Stein
Medicine and science in early modern Germany (1500-1800); enlightenment science and medicine, strategies of biopower (1800-today); visual culture and medicine (1500-today); the history of epistemology
Dr Charles Walton
Research interests include Old Regime, Enlightenment and Revolutionary France, with emphases on democratization, rights, liberalism and economic justice.
Research and Teaching Staff
Dr Tom Pert
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, for the project the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) – the most destructive European conflict prior to the twentieth century.
Dr Martha McGill
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow for the project "Bodies, Selves and the Supernatural in early Modern Britain"
Dr Sarah Johanesen
Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History. Historian of early modern material culture and confessional politics, focused on Catholicism in England after the Reformation.
Dr Natalie Hanley-Smith
Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History. Historian of Georgian Britain, with research expertise in marriage, adultery, emotion, gossip, and political culture.