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Thierry Amalou, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Email: Thierry.Amalou@univ-paris1.fr
Research: Cultures politiques et sensibilités religieuses de la première modernité; La prédication catholique à Paris pendant la Ligue; Recherche en cours sur la faculté de théologie pendant les guerres de Religion.

Paul Arblaster
Email: paularblaster@gmail.com
Research: Author of Antwerp & the World: Richard Verstegan and the International Culture of Catholic Reformation (Leuven University Press, 2004) and A History of the Low Countries (Palgrave Essential Histories, 2005). Currently a self-employed translator, and temporary lecturer at the Facultés Universitaires Notre de la Paix, Namur, Belgium.

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Alex Bamji, University of Leeds
Email: a.bamji@leeds.ac.uk / Web
Research: Religion, disease and death in early modern Venice and Nuremberg.

Stephen Bates, University of Warwick
Email: S.M.J.Bates@warwick.ac.uk
Research: The Cult of the Virgin Mary in sixteenth century England.

Stefan Bauer, University of Fribourg
Email: sbauer2 (at) gmail.com
Research: Humanism; Counter-Reformation Rome; Historiography; Church History.

Greg Bereiter, Northern Illinois University
Email: greg.bereiter@gmail.com
Research: Violence and coexistence during the League period of the French Wars of Religion.

Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester
Email: j.bergin@manchester.ac.uk / Web
Research: The religious, social and political history of early modern France from the later sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Also, strong comparative historical interests, especially in Italian, German and Spanish history of the same period.

Matteo Binasco, National University of Ireland in Galway / Istituto di Storia dell'Europa Mediterranea in Genova
Email: matteobinasco973@hotmail.com / Web / Web
Research: Irish clerical communities in the Italian Peninsula and in the West Indies in the seventeenth centuries. I'm also interested in the Catholic missions in the American continent in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Anne Bonzon, Université Paris 8
Email: anne.bonzon@univ-paris8.fr
Research: Clergé paroissial, journaux de curés, missions intérieures, rôle du clergé dans le règlement des conflits.

Stephen Bowd, University of Edinburgh
Email: stephen.bowd@ed.ac.uk
My research interests focus on the religion and society of early modern Venice and the terraferma; Christian humanism; and the life and works of Gian Pietro Carafa.

Caroline Bowden, Queen Mary University of London
Email: c.bowden@qmul.ac.uk / Web
Research: I am project manager of the Who were the Nuns? Project at Queen Mary University of London: http://wwtn.history.qmul.ac.uk/.
My research interests are focussed on the membership of the English convents in exile 1600-1800 and their supporting networks: understanding the intellectual culture of the convents and more broadly women’s book collections.

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Michael Carroll, The University of Western Ontario
Email: mcarroll@uwo.ca / Web
Research: A sociologist with a special interest in Catholicism, Dr. Michael Carroll studies different aspects of religious culture on societies and migration.

Maria Craciun, University of Cluj
Email: maria_silvia.craciun@yahoo.com
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Simon Ditchfield, University of York
Email: srd5@york.ac.uk / Web
Research: Hagiography; politics of sanctity; historia sacra (uses of the past in general).

Frances E. Dolan, University of California Davis
Email: fdolan@ucdavis.edu / Web
Research: Early modern Catholicism and anti-Catholicism; Gender and Catholicism; Witchcraft; Religion, Magic, and Science.

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Martin Elbel, University of Olomouc
Email: maelbel@gmail.com and elbel@ffnw.upol.cz
Research: Religious history of early modern Europe, especially Bohemia and Moravia. Activities of religious orders (Franciscans in particular). Cult of saints, devotions and rituals. Visual culture.

Raingard Esser, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Email: R.M.Esser@rug.nl
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Silvia Evangelisti, UEA
Email: S.Evangelisti@uea.ac.uk
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Sr. M. Finbarr Coffey, Heythrop College, University of London
Email: finbarrc2@hotmail.com
Research: The Catholic Enlightenment in German speaking lands. PhD dissertation: 'Sisters of the Holy Cross, Menzingen Canton Zug, Switzerland: a Study of Identity and Memory of a contested founding event (1844-1863).' This work may be understood as a synthesis of history, biblical theology and spirituality.

David Finnegan
Email: dvdfnngn@gmail.com
Research: Centres on the Catholic Reformation in Ireland and chiefly on its political ramifications but considers these developments through a European lens.

Marc Forster, Connecticut College
Email: marc.forster@conncoll.edu
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Alison Forrestal, National University of Ireland, Galway
Email: alison.forrestal@nuigalway.ie / Web
Research: Vincent de Paul.

Catarina Fouto, University of Oxford
Email: cfouto@gmail.com
Research: Counter-Reformation in Portugal; Impact on Literature and the Visual Arts; Neo-Latin Literature; Erasmus.

Amy Fuller, Nottingham Trent University
Email: amy.fuller@ntu.ac.uk
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Elaine Fulton, University of Birmingham
Email: e.k.fulton@bham.ac.uk / Web
Research: The interplay between politics, society and religion in early-modern Europe, with particular focus on Catholic reform in urban centres in the German-speaking lands. My first book examined the role of a prominent Habsburg courtier in supporting Catholic reform in Vienna in the 1550s-1580s. My current research has moved westwards, however, with ongoing work on the Catholic culture of the Swiss city of Lucerne in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Ramona Garcia, Independent Scholar
Email: rgarcia_arena@hotmail.com
Research: How sixteenth through nineteenth-century accounts of the Marian persecutions reflected the anti-Catholicism of the century in which these accounts were written. History and library science.


Jean-Pascal Gay, University of Strasbourg
Email: jpascalgay@free.fr
Research: The history of Theology and of doctrinal controversies, the society of Jesus, and the relationship between the Roman Inquisition and Rome.

Genelle Gertz, Washington and Lee University
Email: gertzg@wlu.edu / Web
Research: I work on cross-confessional women's visionary writing as well as women and heresy trial. I have written on Margaret Clitherow and Marian Protestant women in trial, and am currently working on medieval mystical texts and mysticism in the Cambray convent. I am comparing women's mysticism in the late medieval period, as well as the conditions for women's prophecy, with that of women in the seventeenth century.

Katy Gibbons, University of Portsmouth
Email: katy.gibbons@port.ac.uk / Web
Research: Early modern Catholicism in England and France; religious exiles (particularly English Catholics in France).

Jaime Goodrich, Wayne State University
Email: goodrija@wayne.edu
Research: English Catholicism in relationship to the Reformation; Continental convents for 17th-century Englishwomen; Catholicism and gender.

Kevin Gould, Nottingham Trent University
Email: kevin.gould@ntu.ac.uk / Web
Research: centres on confessional violence in France during the sixteenth century, especially pre-League Catholic militancy and sectarian confrontations within the urban centres of the south-west during the Wars of Religion, 1562-1598.

Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield
Email: m.greengrass@sheffield.ac.uk / Web
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Max von Habsburg, Oundle School
Email: MPHH@oundleschool.org.uk
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Benjamin Hazard, University College Dublin
Email: benjamin.hazard@ucd.ie
Research: Cultural history; politics and society in early-modern Ireland and Europe; Irish relations with the papacy and Habsburg Spain; state formation; cultural politics and historiography; concepts of Irish identity; Computer Applications for the Humanities, especially the creation of corpora and text analysis.

Bridget Heal, University of St Andrews
Email: bmh6@st-and.ac.uk / Web
Research: Interests include: German religious and social history of the late fifteenth century to the eighteenth century, with particular interest in the visual culture of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and in women’s history.

Jenny Hillman, University of York
email: jh519@york.ac.uk
Research: Aristocratic female devotion in France during and after the Catholic Reformation, Lay patronage, charity and religious conversion in seventeenth-century France.

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Geert Janssen, University of Leiden (The Netherlands)
Email: g.h.janssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl / Web
Research: The religious and political history of the early modern Low Countries. I am currently involved with a project about Catholic exiles in the Dutch Revolt (1566-1609), which is funded by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research.

Phebe Jensen, Utah State University
Email: phebe.jensen@usu.edu / Web
Research: Literature and religious culture in early modern England.

Simon Johnson, Downside Abbey
Email: sjohnson@downside.co.uk
Research: The English Missionary Infrastructure; English Catholic Diaspora; English College Lisbon; The Benedictine Mission.

Rona Johnston Gordon, Research Fellow at Yale Divinity School
Email: johnstongordon@hotmail.com
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Pekka Kärkkäinen, University of Helsinki
Email: pekka.karkkainen@helsinki.fi / Web
Research: Since 2002 I have been involved in projects focusing on late Medieval and Reformation philosophical psychology. One of my main interests has been the philosophy of the early anti-Lutheran controversialist Bartholomaeus Arnoldi of Usingen. I have also recently translated the Roman Confutation of the Augsburg Confession into Finnish

Ralph Keen, University of Illinois at Chicago
Email: rkeen01@uic.edu
Research: Patristic reception in Catholic controversial theology, ca. 1530-ca. 1640.

James Kelly, Queen Mary University of London
Email: j.e.kelly@qmul.ac.uk / Web
Research: Catholic community formation in England 1570-1688, including contacts abroad, Catholicism in Essex, the English Jesuit mission, membership of the English convents in exile 1600-1800 and their supporting networks.

Ruth Kirk, University of Birmingham
Email: ruth@e-elgar.co.uk
Research: Early modern German Catholic catechisms, investigating how the resurgent Catholic Church communicated its messages to society, with particular emphasis on children and young people, via the use of catechisms, charting the development of confessional pedagogical techniques in the schools, churches and even homes of early-modern Germany.

Yves Krumenacker, Université Lyon 3
Email: yves.krumenacker@wanadoo.fr
Research: Catholic Spirituality, Protestantism.

Gary Kuchar, University of Victoria
Email: kucharg@uvic.ca / Web
Research: Major Research Interests: Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century English Literature; Relations among literature, devotion, and theology in post-Reformation England with emphasis on poetry and prose.

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Rev. Fr. David Lannon, Salford Diocesan Archives
Email: davelannon@aol.com
Research: Catholic Education in the Salford diocese; Tudor House of Correction for obstinate recusants in Manchester, Lancashire, 1580s-1600; The Reformation in Lancashire; the location and holdings of State and Church archives across Europe.

Simone Laqua-O'Donnell, University of Birmingham
Email: s.laquaodonnell@bham.ac.uk / Web
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Nicole Lemaitre, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne
Email: lemaitre@univ-paris1.fr
Research: History of the parish priests, of popes XVI and XVIIth centuries. Edition of the correspondance of cardinal Georges d'Armagnac (1500-1585).

Amy Leonard, Georgetown University
Email: ael3@georgetown.edu / Web
Research: Nuns and monastic dissolution in late medieval and early modern Germany; changing views of female sexuality in 16th-century Germany and England, especially as affecting nuns and prostitutes.

Howard Louthan, University of Florida
Email: louthan@history.ufl.edu / Web
Research: Religious, cultural, intellectual history of Central Europe (1400-1800)

Laurence Lux-Sterritt, University of Aix-en-Provence
Email: Laurence.Sterritt@univ-provence.fr
Research: focuses upon Catholicism, and especially Catholicism and women. I have published in this area, and I am a part of the endeavours of the London-based project "Who were the Nuns?'.

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Arthur F. Marotti, Wayne State University
Email: aa1750@wayne.edu / Web
Research: Arthur F. Marotti, Distinguished Professor of English, Wayne State University, is interested in early modern English Catholic culture and texts. He has published a number of articles of book chapters on the topic, as well as a monograph, Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England (U. of Notre Dame Press, 2005). He is putting together a new collection of essays on early modern English Catholicism.

Peter Marshall, University of Warwick
Email: peter.marshall@warwick.ac.uk / Web
Research: Post-Reformation English Catholic culture.

Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., Jesuit Provincial Archives, London and Fordham University, New York City
Email: tmmccoog@gmail.com / Web
Research: Tudor/Stuart religious history with particular emphasis on the Society of Jesus.

Emily Michelson, University of St Andrews
Email: edm21@st-andrews.ac.uk / Web
Research: Research interests include the religious history of Renaissance and sixteenth-century Italy, the history of the book, public devotion and civic ritual. Current research focuses on vernacular preaching and sermons in sixteenth century Italy.

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Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, University College Dublin
Email: tadhg.ohannrachain@ucd.ie / Web
Research: My current research focuses on the comparative history of the Catholic Reformation throughout Europe, with a particular emphasis on Ireland and Early Modern Hungary and the politics of confessional conflict and co-existence. Other research interests include papal diplomacy, the practice of religious disputation, confessional historiography and the role of the episcopacy in religious reform.

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Holly Pickett, Washington and Lee University
Email: picketth@wlu.edu / Web
Research: Religion and drama in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England; religious controversy; religious conversion.

Regina Pörtner, Swansea University
Email: r.poertner@swansea.ac.uk / Web
Research: Economic, social, and intellectual dimensions of the transformation and expansion of Europe, c. 1450-1800; the intellectual history of patriotism in early modern Europe. Primary research specialism is in the religious, political and economic history of the Habsburg Monarchy c. 1500-1800.

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Michael Questier, Queen Mary University of London
Email: m.c.questier@qmul.ac.uk / Web
Research: The politics of religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Luc Racaut, University of Newcastle
Email: luc.racaut@ncl.ac.uk / Web
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Bruno Restif, Université de Reims
Email : bruno.restif@wanadoo.fr
Research : Paroisse et culture paroissiale ; Production, diffusion et interprétation des normes ; Images, objets, architecture et aménagement des églises ; Usages, fonctions et représentations du corps dans la prière publique et privée.

Camilla Russell, University of Newcastle, Australia
Email: Camilla.Russell@newcastle.edu.au / Web
Research: Religious and cultural history of early modern Italy; Jesuit history; mission history; subversive religious groups in sixteenth-century Italy; gender; the history of information.

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Christian Schneider, Durham University
Email: christian.schneider@dur.ac.uk
Research: Early-modern papal politics, prestige and diplomacy; (self-)representation of the papacy in art; papal rhetoric of peace and of the padre commune; Pope Clement VIII.

Stephanie Seery-Murphy, California State University, Sacramento
Email: seerymur@saclink.csus.edu
Research: Early modern Europe, history of Christianity, Catholicism in Britain and France in the early modern era.

Philip Soergel, University of Maryland
Email: psoergel@umd.edu / Web
Research: Religious and social history of late-medieval and early-modern Germany, from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. History of Catholic and Lutheran communities in the German empire and a strong comparative emphasis on similar religious developments in France, Italy, and Spain.

Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes University
Email: aspicer@brookes.ac.uk / Web
Research: History of the Reformation; migration and early modern French history; the history of death; architecture of the early modern period.

Ulrike Strasser, University of California, Irvine
Email: strasser@uci.edu / Web
Research: Currently working on a monograph entitled “Consuming Missions: German Jesuits and the European Imagination of Pacific Spaces”.

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Elena Taddia
Email: elena@earlymodernhistory.com
Research: The Counter Reformation in Italy; ecclesiastical tribunals and ecclesiastical archives in Italy; ecclesiastical justice; priests and nuns in early modern Italy; violent priests, priests and lays.

Alain Tallon, Université de Paris-Sorbonne
Email: alain.tallon@paris-sorbonne.fr
Research: Council of Trent, Gallicanism, Religious Contacts between Italy and France, Religion and Politics in Early Modern Catholic Europe.

Elizabeth Tingle, University of Plymouth
Email: elizabeth.tingle@plymouth.ac.uk / Web
Research: My research interests focus on the French Wars of Religion and on the French Counter/Catholic Reformation. I am currently working on the relationship between theology and religious practice through a study of the doctrine of purgatory and post-mortem intercession in Brittany 1480-1720.

Stefania Tutino, University of California, Santa Barbara
Email: tutino@history.ucsb.edu / Web
Research: Post Reformation Catholic political and theological culture; the Society of Jesus.

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Demmy Verbeke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Email: demmy.verbeke@hiw.kuleuven.be / Web
Research: Intellectual history (especially of the Low Countries in the 15th, 16th and 17th century), Renaissance thought, and the classical tradition. My current research focuses on the humanist-scholastic debates and moral thought in the Low Countries during the 16th century. Central figures in this study are Adriaan Florisz. van Utrecht (the later pope Adrianus VI), Maarten van Dorp and Juan Luis Vives.

Arnoud Visser, University of Leiden
Email: a.s.q.visser@hum.leidenuniv.nl / Web
Research: History of religious ideas; history of scholarship; book history. Currently completing a project on the intellectual authority of Augustine of Hippo in the long sixteenth century.

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Claire Walker, University of Adelaide
Email: claire.i.walker@adelaide.edu.au / Web
Research: interests include women and the Catholic Reformation; in particular, exiled English nuns in France and the Spanish Netherlands, and their engagement with reform, politics and spirituality in the post-Trent Church. I am also interested in anti-Catholicism in post-Reformation England and the perceived threat Catholics posed the Church of England, the State and society.

Dianne Walker, Baton Rouge Community College
Email: dianne70806@gmail.com or walkerd@mybrcc.edu
Research: Catholic Recusants in the Parish of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. I am particularly interested in recusancy in the Heath, Blount and Throckmorton families.

Malcolm Walsby, University of St Andrews
Email: mnw@st-andrews.ac.uk / Web
Research: The French nobility in the 15th and 16th centuries; Late mediaeval Brittany; the Wars of Religion in Brittany and the Maine; History of the book in late mediaeval and early modern France.

Alexandra Walsham, University of Walsham
email: A.M.Walsham@exeter.ac.uk / Web
Research: History of the Reformation and Counter Reformation in the British Isles and its wider cultural repercussions; tolerance and intolerance; Catholic responses to persecution, especially dissimulation and church papistry.

Emma Watson, University of York
Email: kew116@york.ac.uk / Web
Research: includes post-Reformation English Catholic culture,
particularly in the North of England, and the Marian restoration of
Catholicism in England.

Sandy Wilkinson, University College Dublin
Email: Sandy.Wilkinson@ucd.ie / Web
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Jonathan Wright
Email: jonathanwright123@gmail.com
Research: Jesuit history (recent chapter in T. Worcester, Cambridge
Companion to the Jesuits; currently working on an edited volume on the
Jesuit suppression); Tudor religious history; religious dissimulation
in the early modern period.

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* If you would like to be added to the Catholic Reformation Scholars list, please send your name, academic institution or independent status, email address, academic website url, and short overview of your research interests to: Dr Kevin Gould at kevin.gould@ntu.ac.uk