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Lucy Kaufman

Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Education

  • PhD, Yale University, 2014

Research Areas

  • European History
  • Religious History

About

Research Interests

  • Early modern British history
  • Popular politics and power
  • Migration and immigration in the early modern world
  • Creation of national identities
  • Early modern urban spaces
  • Social and institutional networks
  • Microeconomics and social economic history
  • Early modern religion

Recent Publications

  • A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023).

Current Projects

  • ““Religious Cultures,” in The New Cambridge History of Britain, Volume III: 1500-1750, Susan Amussen and Paul Monod, eds.. Cambridge University Press (under contract).
  • “Ordering the Strangers: European Immigration in Early Modern England” (in progress).

Courses Taught

  • Western Civ to 1648 (HY 101)
  • Reformation Europe (HY 444)
  • England under the Tudors (HY 490)
  • England under the Stuarts (HY 491)
  • History of London (HY 497)
  • Graduate Readings in Early Modern European History (HY 631)
  • Graduate Historiography and Methods (HY 665)

Awards and Honors

  • 2019/22, Durham University Research Visiting Fellowship (postponed until 2022)
  • 2018, College Academy for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Grant (UA)
  • 2018, Folger Library, Grant-in-aid, London Bills of Mortality Symposium
  • 2017, Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement with Research (Oxford)
  • 2017, UK Association of Heritage Interpretation Overall Award for Excellence in Interpretation (Historical Expert, National Trust)
  • 2016, Keble College Small Research Grant, British Immigration Project (Oxford)
  • 2014, Theron Rockwell Field Prize (Yale)
  • 2014, US Department of Education Title VI Grant (Grantwriter, Yale)

Selected Publications

Books:

Articles and Book Chapters:

  • “Ordering the Strangers: European Immigration in Early Modern England” (in progress) “Religious Cultures,” in The New Cambridge History of Britain, Volume III: 1500-1750, Susan Amussen and Paul Monod, eds. Cambridge University Press (under contract).
  • with Matthew Tyler-Jones and Jeanice Brooks, “A Soundscape Case Study: Pre-Reformation Lady Mass at the Vyne, Basingstoke.”  Curator: the Museum Journal (July 2019)
  • ‘Pensioners, Prisoners, and Pupils: Tudor Charity at Corpus Christi College,’ in Renaissance College: Corpus Christi College Oxford in Context, 1450-1600,  John Watts, ed. Oxford University Press (July 2019)
  • “The Pious Politics of Godly Women in Post-Reformation England,” in Germany and Britain in the Reformation: Comparison, Transfer, and Entanglements, ed. Frank-Lothar Kroll (August 2018).
  • “Ecclesiastical Improvements, Lay Impropriations, and the Building of a Post-Reformation Church in England, 1560-1600.” The Historical Journal (March 2015)