Ethan H. Shagan
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000
M.A., Princeton University, 1996
A.B., Brown University, 1994
The history of Britain from the 15th to the 18th centuries, with an emphasis on religion and politics in England. More broadly, the history of Europe in the era of Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and the social and political uses of religious ideology.
Academic Appointments
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University of California, Berkeley |
Associate Professor |
2007- |
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Northwestern University |
Wayne V. Jones Research Professor in History |
2006-2007 |
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Associate Professor |
2004-2007 |
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Assistant Professor |
2000-2004 |
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Harvard University Society of Fellows |
Junior Fellow |
1999-2000 |
Selected Awards
Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Newberry Library, 2005-06
Chandis Securities Fellowship at the Huntington Library, 2005-06 (declined)
E. LeRoy Hall Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, 2005
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European history from the American Historical Association for Popular Politics and the English Reformation.
Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the American Historical Association for the best book in British, British Imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485, for Popular Politics and the English Reformation.
Roland Bainton Prize from Sixteenth Century Studies for the best book in early modern European history, for Popular Politics and the English Reformation.
Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society for the best first book in British history, for Popular Politics and the English Reformation.
Professional Service and Activities
Co-editor of the book series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History, Cambridge University Press
North American Corresponding Editor, Renaissance Studies
Editorial Board, The Sixteenth Century Journal
Executive committee, Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, 2003-2007
Advisory panel on document publication for the National Archives of the United Kingdom
Chair of the Bainton Book Prize Committee in European History, Sixteenth Century Studies, 2005-6 (and committee member, 2004).
Popular Politics and the English Reformation(Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Catholics and the 'Protestant Nation': Religious Politics and Identity in Early Modern England(Manchester University Press, 2005).
"Protestant Radicalism and Political Thought in the Reign of Henry VIII," Past and Present (February 2007, co-authored with Karl Gunther): 35-74.
"Can Historians End the Reformation?" Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte / Archive for Reformation History (2006): 298-306.
"The English Inquisition: Constitutional Conflict and Ecclesiastical Law in the 1590s," The Historical Journal 47, no.3 (September 2004): 541-65.
"Print, Orality and Communications in the Maid of Kent Affair," The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 52, no.1 (January 2001): 21-33.
"'Popularity' and the 1549 Rebellions Revisited," The English Historical Review 115, no.460 (February 2000): 121-33.
"Protector Somerset and the 1549 Rebellions: New Sources and New Perspectives," The English Historical Review 114, no.455 (February 1999): 34-63.
"Constructing Discord: Ideology, Propaganda, and English Responses to the Irish Rebellion of 1641," Journal of British Studies 36, no.1 (January 1997): 4-34.
"The Two Republics: Conflicting Views of Participatory Local Government in Early Tudor England," in John McDiarmid, ed., The Monarchical Republic in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007).
"The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Public Sphere?" in Steven Pincus and Peter Lake, eds., The Public Sphere in Early Modern England (Manchester University Press, 2008).
"The Battle for Indifference in Elizabethan England," in Alec Ryrie and Luc Racaut, eds., Moderate Voices in the European Reformation (Ashgate, 2005).
"Confronting Compromise: The Schism and Its Legacy in Mid-Tudor England," in Ethan Shagan, ed., Catholics and the 'Protestant Nation': Religious Politics and Identity in England, 1534-1640 (Manchester University Press, 2005).
"Introduction: English Catholic History in Context," in Ethan Shagan, ed., Catholics and the 'Protestant Nation': Religious Politics and Identity in England, 1534-1640 (Manchester University Press, 2005).
"Clement Armstrong and the Godly Commonwealth: Radical Religion in Early Tudor England," in Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie, eds., The Beginnings of English Protestantism (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
"Rumours and Popular Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII," in Tim Harris, ed., The Politics of the Excluded, c.1500-1850 (Palgrave, 2001).
Courses
| Semester | Course | Title | Syllabus |
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| Spring 2012 | 151A | Tudor Stuart Britain, 1485-1660 | |
| Spring 2012 | 280C | The English Revolution | |
| Fall 2012 | 165D | The Social and Cultural History of Early Modern Europe | |
| Fall 2012 | 275B | Early Modern Europe | |
| Spring 2011 | 101.016 | Research Seminar in British History |