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Claire S. Schen, Associate Professor office: 577 Park Hall email: cschen@buffalo.edu phone: (716) 645-2181 ext. 577

Education: A.B., Brown, 1987; Ph.D., Brandeis, 1995

Courses Regularly Taught:
UGC 112, World Civilizations II
HIS 421, England in Shakespeare's Era
HIS 415, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Europe

HIS 541, Early Modern Britain
HIS 635, Research Seminar in Early Modern History

Field(s): Early Modern Europe, North and South Atlantic

Hub(s): Culture and Society, Gender, Transnational Developments

Research Interests: Early Modern England, Reformation and religion, Charity, Piracy

Current Research: Thomas Norton, Pirate: Captivity and Cross-Cultural Contact in the Seventeenth Century

Selected Publications:
Charity and Lay Piety in Reformation London, 1500-1620 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002), St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History

"Constructing the Poor in Early Seventeenth-Century London," _Albion_, Vol. 32, No. 3, Fall 2000, pp. 450-63.

Affiliations and other notes:

•Book Review Co-Editor (with Patrick McDevitt) of the Journal of British Studies, incorporating Albion
Please visit the Journal of British Studies website for more information

•Early Modern Reading Group
•Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender [IREWG]

Last updated: Wednesday, March 1, 2006