I am a historian of early modern Europe specializing in the intellectual and religious history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. My scholarly interests include the Enlightenment, early modern Christianity, the supernatural, skepticism and unbelief, historical theology, and theories of secularization. My current research examines the reconfiguration of German Protestantism in the eighteenth century as …
I am a historian of Latin America and early modern Iberia, with an emphasis on the Andes. I study how Black people shaped early modern Iberian political life, using their ideas of community and methods of self-governance to rethink early modern concepts of belonging. In my research and teaching, I focus on inclusion and exclusion, …
I am an economic historian working within the field of Early Modern Europe, with a focus on the history of France. My body of work explores how pre-industrial societies coped with uncertainty and with the insecurity of property and resources. Early maritime insurance markets are the unlikely point of entry into these questions in my …
I am an economic and military historian of the early modern Mediterranean, with an emphasis on Italy. I am especially interested in how early modern economic practices – consumerism, market culture, and the commercialization of war – shaped notions of sovereignty, territoriality, and political geography. My monograph, Leviathan for Sale, which is under contract with …