Senior Editors

MERRY WIESNER-HANKS is Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A historian of early modern Europe, and also a world/global historian, she has been a senior editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal since 1996 and is a former editor of the Journal of Global History and the editor-in-chief of the seven-volume Cambridge World History. She is the author or editor of many articles and thirty books that have appeared in ten European and Asian languages. Her books include most recently: Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 (Cambridge, 3rd ed. 2023); Gender in History: Global Perspectives (Blackwell, 3rd ed. 2022); What Is Early Modern History? (Polity, 2021); (with Teresa A. Meade) Blackwell Companion to Global Gender History (Blackwell, 2nd ed. 2021); Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity (Amsterdam, 2021); Christianity and  Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice (Routledge, 3rd ed. 2020); Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 4th ed. 2019); (with Urmi Engineer Willoughby) A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History (Duke, 2018).  She is currently editing, with Mathew Kuefler, the four-volume Cambridge World History of Sexualities.

PATRICIA PHILLIPPY is Professor of Material and Cultural Memories and Director of the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University. Her expertise is in early modern English literature and culture, which she approaches from comparative and transdisciplinary perspectives. Her special areas of interest include gender and women's writing, ecocriticism, memory studies, religion, and manuscript, print and material textualities. She is the author of Shaping Remembrance from Shakespeare to Milton (Cambridge, 2018), Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases and Early Modern Culture (Johns Hopkins, 2006); and Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England (Cambridge, 2002). She edited A History of Early Modern Women's Writing (Cambridge, 2018) and Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell, The Writings of an English Sappho (CRRS/Iter, 2011). 

Editors

KAREN NELSON is Co-Director of the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies and Director of Research Initiatives in the Department of English at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on women writers, pastoral literature, and religious reform and counter reform. She is the editor of a number of books including Feminist Circulations: Rhetorical Explorations across Time and Space with Jessica Enoch and Danielle Griffin (Parlour, 2021), 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.

JENNIFER MARA DESILVA is a 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. Some of this research appeared in The Office of Ceremonies and Advancement in Curial Rome, 1466-1528 (Brill, 2022). In addition to publishing journal articles, she has edited several collections, including Episcopal Reform and Politics in Early Modern Europe (Truman State University Press, 2012), The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the Early Modern World (Ashgate, 2015), and The Borgia Family: Rumor and Representation (Routledge, 2019).

BARBARA PITKIN (PhD University of Chicago) specializes in the history of Christian thought, with 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, the director of undergraduate studies, and supervises undergraduate outreach and research. Her current research focuses on early modern views and uses of the past. She is the author of Calvin, the Bible, and History: Exegesis and Historical Reflection in the Era of Reform (Oxford, 2020) and What Pure Eyes Could See: Calvin's Doctrine of Faith in its Exegetical Context (Oxford, 1999); co-editor of The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2006) and The Early Modern Classroom: Teaching the Early Modern World in the Era of Covid-19 (SCJ supplement issue); and editor of Semper Reformanda: Calvin, Worship, and Reformed Traditions (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018).

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 Encyclopedia 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.

Book Review Editor

FREDDY DOMINGUEZ is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.  He is the author of Radicals in Exile: English Catholic Books during the Reign of Philip II (Penn State, 2020) and Bob Dylan in the Attic: The Artist as Historian (UMass Press, 2022). His is co-editor, with William Bulman, of Political and Religious Practice in the Early Modern British World(Manchester University Press, 2022).  He is currently writing Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza: The Spiritual Politics of an Anglo-Spanish Life. 

Associate Book Review Editors

LORA WALSH is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. Her research focuses on Lady Church as a goddess-like figure in medieval and early modern religious culture. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, and Harvard Theological Review.   

DEBORAH R. FORTEZA is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Her research centers on literary representations of Tudor and Stuart monarchs and English Catholics in early modern literature, as well as Anglo-Spanish relations and collaboration. She is the author of The English Reformation in the Spanish Imagination: Rewriting Nero, Jezebel, and the Dragon (U of Toronto Press, 2022). 

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Copy & Production Editor

RACHEL ANDERSON