Bio
My teaching and research focus on the following areas of interest:
Puritanism, Politics
English Revolution
History of print
History of Political Thought
History of Religion and the Reformation
Global History
Academic Appointments
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Professor, History
Administrative Appointments
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Professor, Stanford University (2018 - Present)
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Associate Professor, Stanford University . (2007 - 2018)
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Assistant Professor, Stanford University (2002 - 2007)
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Assistant Professor, University of Maryland (2000 - 2002)
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Instructor/Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago (1998 - 2000)
Honors & Awards
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Solmsen Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2022-2023)
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Essay Prize (awarded for "Printing the Levellers"), Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (2022)
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Harold Grimm Prize (for “The Family of Love and the Making of English Revolutionary Religion"), Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (2019)
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John Ben Snow Prize, for best book in pre-1800 British History, North American Conference on British Studies (2019)
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Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (2019)
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Samuel Pepys Award, for book making greatest contribution to understanding the era of Samuel Pepys, Samuel Pepys Club (UK) (2019)
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Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History (for "City on the Other Hill"), Colonial Society of Massachusetts in conjunction with the New England Quarterly (2018)
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Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, American Council of Learned Societies (2011-2012)
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12-Month Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (2007-2008)
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Short-Term Fellowship, Huntington Library (2007)
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John Ben Snow Prize, Honorable Mention, North American Conference on British Studies (2005)
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Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship, Bibliographical Society of America (2004)
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Schmidt Fellowship, University of Chicago (1998-2000)
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W.M. Keck Foundation/Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library (1998)
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Post-Enrollment Fellowship, A.W. Mellon (1997-1998)
Professional Education
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Ph.D, Princeton University, Department of History. (1999)
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A.B., Stanford University, History (1992)
2024-25 Courses
- Empire and Revolution: 17th Century England
HISTORY 133B (Spr) - Empire and Revolution: 17th Century England
HISTORY 33B (Spr) - Political Thought in Early Modern Britain
HISTORY 233F, HISTORY 333F (Win) - Reformation to Civil War: England under the Tudors and Stuarts
HISTORY 233, HISTORY 333 (Win) - The Global Early Modern
HISTORY 207C, HISTORY 307C (Spr) -
Independent Studies (7)
- Curricular Practical Training
HISTORY 299F (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Directed Reading
HISTORY 399W (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Research
HISTORY 499X (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Research I
HISTORY 299A (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research II
HISTORY 299B (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research III
HISTORY 299C (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing
HISTORY 299S (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors
HISTORY 133A (Spr) - Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors
HISTORY 33A (Spr) - Political Thought in Early Modern Britain
HISTORY 233F, HISTORY 333F (Win) - The Global Early Modern
HISTORY 207C, HISTORY 307C (Win) - Two British Revolutions
HISTORY 233C, HISTORY 333C (Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors
HISTORY 133A (Spr) - Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors
HISTORY 33A (Spr) - Political Thought in Early Modern Britain
HISTORY 233F, HISTORY 333F (Win) - The Global Early Modern
HISTORY 207C, HISTORY 307C (Win) - Two British Revolutions
HISTORY 233C, HISTORY 333C (Spr)
- Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors
Stanford Advisees
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Jonathan McDonald -
Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Amanda Coate, Ben Gee, Chloe Stowell -
Orals Evaluator
Amanda Coate, Jon Cooper, Nathan Lilje, Courtney MacPhee, Morgan Tufan -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Jon Cooper, Nathan Lilje, Courtney MacPhee -
Master's Program Advisor
Kaitlynn Norton -
Doctoral (Program)
Courtney MacPhee
All Publications
- Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War. Winner of the 2019 John Ben Snow Prize, 2019 Samuel Pepys Award, 2019 PCCBS Book Prize Oxford University Press. 2018
- Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in pre-Civil-War England Stanford University Press. 2004
- Anatomy of the General Rising: Militancy and Mobilisation in London, 1643 Peter Lake and Jason Peacey, eds., Insolent Proceedings: Rethinking Public Politics in the English Revolution Manchester University Press. 2022
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Anatomy of the General Rising: militancy and mobilisation in London, 1643
INSOLENT PROCEEDINGS
2022: 69-87
View details for Web of Science ID 000979663200005
- Empire of Heresy: Samuel Gorton, Gerrard Winstanley, and the London Roots of Transatlantic Revolutionary Religion in William Bulman and Freddy Dominguez, eds., Political and Religious Practice in the Early Modern British World Manchester University Press. 2022
- Printing the Levellers: Clandestine Print, Radical Propaganda, and the New Model Army The Library 2021; 7th ser., vol. 22: 441–486
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Making 'the Heads of the Proposals': The King, the Army, the Levellers, and the Roads to Putney
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
2020; 135 (577): 1387–1432
View details for DOI 10.1093/ehr/ceaa312
View details for Web of Science ID 000634628500001
- Provincial ‘Levellers’ and the Coming of the Regicide in the South-West in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, eds., Connecting Centre and Locality: Political Communication in Early Modern England Manchester University Press. 2020
- The Origins of the Concept of Freedom of the Press in Robert G. Ingram, Jason Peacey and Alex Barber, eds., Freedom of Speech, 1500–1850 Manchester University Press. 2020
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City on the Other Hill: The Plough Patent, the Company of Husbandmen, and a Radical Puritan Colonization Project
NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS
2019; 92 (3): 348–90
View details for DOI 10.1162/tneq_a_00757
View details for Web of Science ID 000483678200002
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The Family of Love and the Making of English Revolutionary Religion: The Confession and "Conversions" of Giles Creech
JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
2018; 48 (3): 553–61
View details for DOI 10.1215/10829636-7048595
View details for Web of Science ID 000444574800007
- God’s Revolutions: England, Europe, and the Concept of Revolution in the mid-Seventeenth Century in K. Baker and D. Edelstein, eds., Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions Stanford University Press. 2015
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Print, Censorship, and Ideological Escalation in the English Civil War
JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES
2012; 51 (4): 820-857
View details for DOI 10.1086/666848
View details for Web of Science ID 000310562100004
- Modernity and the Glorious Revolution Colloquium on Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution 2010
- Radical Puritanism, c. 1558-1660 The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism edited by Coffey, J., Lim, P. Cambridge University Press. 2008
- Review of "Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Tyacke" by K. Fincham and P. Lake Renaissance Quarterly 2008; 61
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Secret printing, the crisis of 1640, and the origins of civil war radicalism
PAST & PRESENT
2007: 37-82
View details for DOI 10.1093/pastj/gtm043
View details for Web of Science ID 000252039100002
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Print culture and the early Quakers. (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
2007; 58 (1): 158-159
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0022046906749880
View details for Web of Science ID 000244514600061
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Politicians and pamphleteers: Propaganda during the English civil wars and interregnum. (Book Review)
SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL
2006; 37 (3): 759-761
View details for Web of Science ID 000241779300008
- Anne Phoenix The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works, Series I, Printed Writings, 1500-1640 edited by Como, D. Ashgate Press. 2006; 5 (4)
- An Unattributed Pamphlet of William Walwyn: New Light on the Prehistory of the Leveller Movement The Huntington Library Quarterly 2006; 69
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The burning of Edward Wightman: Puritanism, prelacy and the politics of Heresy in early modern England
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
2005; 120 (489): 1215-1250
View details for DOI 10.1093/ehr/cei330
View details for Web of Science ID 000234437000002
- Review of "The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and the Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 2005; 56
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Puritanism and its discontents. (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2004; 109 (4): 1196-1197
View details for Web of Science ID 000224738900010
- Legate, Bartholomew (c. 1565-1612) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press. 2004
- George Walker (c. 1582-1652) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press. 2004
- Eaton, John (1585-c.1631) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press. 2004
- Brereley, Roger (c. 1586-1637) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press. 2004
- Traske, John (c. 1582-1636) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press. 2004
- Boye, Rice (fl. 1629-1636) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press. 2004
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Predestination and political conflict in Laud's London
HISTORICAL JOURNAL
2003; 46 (2): 263-294
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0018246X03003091
View details for Web of Science ID 000184570400002
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Apocalypse how? Baptist movements during the English revolution. (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF PRESBYTERIAN HISTORY
2003; 81 (4): 277-278
View details for Web of Science ID 000187277800007
- Review of "The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660- 1740" History: Reviews of New Books 2001; 29
- Puritans, Predestination and the Construction of Orthodoxy in Early Seventeenth Century England Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c. 1560-1642 edited by Lake, P., Questier, M. The Boydell Press. 2000
- Review of "Metropolitan Communities: Trade Guilds, Change, and Identity in Early Modern London" International Labor and Working-Class History 2000; 57
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'Orthodoxy' and its discontents: Dispute settlement and the production of 'consensus' in the London (Puritan) 'underground'
JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES
2000; 39 (1): 34-70
View details for Web of Science ID 000084812600003
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Puritans, Antinomians and Laudians in Caroline London: The strange case of Peter Shaw and its contexts (The internal workings of so-called "radical divines" in the early seventeenth-century English underground)
JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
1999; 50 (4): 684-715
View details for Web of Science ID 000085925100003
- The Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Traske and the Kingdom of Christ: The Persistence of Radical Puritanism in Early Stuart England Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England edited by MacDonald, M., McClendon, M., Ward, J. Stanford University Press. 1999
- Women, Prophecy and Authority in Early Stuart Puritanism The Huntington Library Quarterly 1998; 61