 | Professor Alexandra Walsham
Professor of Reformation History, University of Exeter (H9) The religious and cultural history of early modern Britain, especially the impact, reception and repercussions of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations
Alexandra Walsham was born in Cornwall and spent her early childhood in England before emigrating with her family to Australia. She studied history with English literature at the University of Melbourne and was then awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where she completed a PhD in early modern British history in 1995. She was elected to a Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College in 1993 and to a Lectureship at the University of Exeter in 1996. She is currently Professor of Reformation History and Head of Department at Exeter. Her academic interests centre on the religious and cultural history of Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and she has published widely in this field. Her book Providence in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 1999) won the Longman-History Today History Book of the Year Prize in 2000. She writes: ‘I was surprised and overwhelmed when I opened the letter informing me of my forthcoming election to the Fellowship of the British Academy, and I feel immensely honoured and humbled to have been recognised in this way. I am very grateful to the Academy, as well as to my departmental colleagues at Exeter for their support and encouragement over many years. I hope that my election will enable me to represent the academic profession and the discipline of history in an era of significant challenge and change in the sphere of higher education’. |
