Staff

Senior Editors
Editors
Managing Editor
Book Review Editor
Copy & Production Editor
Editorial Committee

 

 

Senior Editors

 

MERRY E. WIESNER-HANKS is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Along with bring the Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal, she is also an editor of the Journal of Global History, and the author or editor of twenty books and many articles that have appeared in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean. These include Early Modern Europe 1450-1789 (Cambridge, 2nd ed. 2013), Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 3rd ed. 2008),Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2010) and Gender in History: Global Perspectives (Blackwell, 2nd ed. 2010). Her research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, among others. She has also written a number of innovative source books for use in the college classroom, including Discovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence (Cengage, 4th edition 2011), a book for young adults, An Age of Voyages, 1350-1600 (Oxford, 2005), and a book for general readers, The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and their Worlds (Yale, 2009) the story of a family of extremely hairy people who lived in Europe in the late sixteenth century. She currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the forthcoming nine-volume Cambridge World History.

Merry Wiesner-Hanks
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Department of History
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
merrywh@uwm.edu

PATRICIA PHILLIPPY is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at the Kingston University of London. Her research is comparative and cross-disciplinary, and is centred on English and European literature and culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her special areas of interest include gender and women's writing, cultural genres, religion, and manuscript, print and material textualities. She is the author of many books and articles. These include The Writings of an English Sappho (ITER, 2011); Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases and Early Modern Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006); Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England (Cambridge University Press, 2002); and Love's Remedies: Recantation and Renaissance Lyric (Buckness University Press, 1995).

Patricia Phillippy
Professor of Material and Cultural Memories
Director, Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities
Research Institute for Creative Cultures
Coventry University
Priory Street
Coventry CV1 5FB
GREAT BRITAIN
patricia.phillippy@coventry.ac.uk

DAVID M. WHITFORD is Professor of of Reformation Studies at Baylor University. He is the author or editor of a number of books including, A Reformation Life (Palgrave, 2014), The T&T Clark Guide to Reformation Theology, (T&T Clark, 2012), Luther: A Guide for the Perplexed, (T&T Clark, 2011), The Curse of Ham in the Early Modern Era (Ashgate, 2009), and Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research (TSUP, 2007). He has published articles in numerous collections and academic journals. He is currently looking at the ways in which the Reformation affected the reception of medieval preaching and biblical interpretation, especially around moral questions and the saints, including Mary Magdalene.

David M. Whitford
Baylor University
Department of Religion
Waco, TX 76706
David_Whitford@baylor.edu

 

Editors

 

KAREN NELSON is Associate Director of the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the editor of a number of books including, Conflict, Concord: Attending to Early Modern Women (Delaware, 2013) and Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain, with Jane Donawerth, Mary Burke, and Linda Dove (Syracuse, 2000). She has published articles in several collections and academic journals.

Karen Nelson
University of Maryland, College Park
Department of English
College Park, MD 20742
knelson@umd.edu

JENNIFER MARA DESILVA is an Associate Professor of History at Ball State University (Indiana, USA). She received her PhD from the University of Toronto (Canada). Her research focuses on the construction of identities: individual, institutional, group, and family, as well as reformed and unreformed. In addition to having published numerous journal articles, she has edited two collections, entitled Episcopal Reform and Politics in Early Modern Europe (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2012) and The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the Early Modern World (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015). She has also guest-edited issues of the Journal of Early Modern History (on family-based European diplomatic networks in 2010) and the Royal Studies Journal (on rituals of political and spatial possession in 2016).

Jennifer Mara DeSilva
Ball State University
2000 W. University Ave
Muncie, IN 47306
jmdesilva@bsu.edu

BARBARA PITKIN (PhD University of Chicago) specializes in the history of Christian thought, with a particular emphasis on the religious developments in late medieval and early modern Europe and on the history of Christian biblical interpretation. She is Senior Lecturer of Religious Studies at Stanford University, where she teaches courses on the history and future of Christianity, sixteenth-century reformations, the history of biblical interpretation, and women and religion. She also serves as the faculty/grad colloquium coordinator and supervises undergraduate outreach and research. Her current research focuses on early modern views and uses of the past. She is the author of What Pure Eyes Could See: Calvin's Doctrine of Faith in its Exegetical Context (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); co-editor of The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2006); and editor of Semper Reformanda: Calvin, Worship, and Reformed Traditions (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018).

Barbara Pitkin
Stanford University
Department of Religious Studies
450 Serra Mall, Bldg 70
Stanford, CA 94305
pitkin@stanford.edu

Managing Editor

KATHRYN M. BRAMMALL,Professor and Chair of History, has been at Truman State University since 1997. She holds a BA and MA from the University of Alberta and a PhD in Early Modern and Medieval British History from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She has held postdoctoral fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada. She is the author of articles in cultural history and history of science and served as Managing Editor of A Global Enclyclopedia of Historical Writing (Garland Publishing, 1998). She is currently investigating the rhetoric of monstrosity in England and North America in the period between 1550 and 1660. Her teaching interests include medieval and early modern Europe and England, the history of women, and the history of science.

Kathryn Brammall
Truman State University
Department of History
100 East Normal Street
Kirksville, MO 63501-4221
Phone: (660) 785-4665
Fax: (660) 785-4337
brammall@truman.edu

Book Review Editor

FREDDY CRISTOBAL DOMINGUEZ is Assistant Professor of History at University of Arkansas–Fayetteville. 

 

SCJ Book Review Office
University of Arkansas–Fayetteville
Old Main, Room 502
Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA
Phone: (479) 575-5886
Fax: 
scjbooks@uark.edu

 

Copy & Production Editor

RACHEL ANDERSON

Editorial Committee

P. Renée Baernstein, Miami University
Kathryn A. Edwards, University of South Carolina
Marc R. Forster, Connecticut College
Luba Freedman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jaime Goodrich, Wayne State University
Michael F. Graham, University of Akron
Paul Hammer, University of Colorado
Christine J. Kooi, Louisiana State University
Greta Kroeker, University of Waterloo 

Whitney Leeson, Roanoke College 

Reiner Leushuis, Florida State University
Peter Marshall, University of Warwick
Allyson Poska, University of Mary Washington 

Horacio Sierra, Bowie State University
Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto
Magda Teter, Fordham University 

Micheline White, Carleton University 

David Whitford, Baylor University