Dr. Kathleen Comerford
Professor of History and Pre-Law Advisor (1999).
B.A. M.A., Fordham University (1988, 1989); Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1995).
Teaching and Research Interests: Reformation, European Religion
Upper Division Courses:
- HIST 5030 Tudor and Stuart England
- HIST 4230 The Renaissance
- HIST 5332 The Reformation
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Contact Information:
Department of History
Georgia Southern University
P. O. Box 8054
Statesboro, GA 30460-8054
Office: #3002, Interdisciplinary Academic Building
Tel.: 912-478-0642
Email: kcomerfo@georgiasouthern.edu
Fax: 912-478-0377
Selected Publications:
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“Did the Jesuits Introduce ‘Global Studies’?” Solicited contribution for Embodiment, Identity, and Gender in the Early Modern Age, ed. David Whitford and Amy Leonard (Routledge, 2021).
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“Corresponding Consorts: Letters between Medici (Grand) Duchesses and Jesuits, 1540s–1620s,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 14/2 (2020): 33-54.
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“The Augsburg Interim and the Council of Trent,” solicited contribution for John Calvin in Context, ed. Ward Holder (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 190-197. This book was awarded the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference 2020 Roland H. Bainton Prize for a Work of Reference.
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“Ignatius of Loyola,” and “Leo X de’ Medici, Pope,” for Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Mark A. Lamport et al. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), 362-64, 428-30.
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From Rome to Zurich, from Ignatius to Vermigli: Essays in Honor of J. Patrick Donnelly, S.J.: co-editor, with Torrance Kirby and Gary Jenkins. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017.
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“The Historiography of the Jesuits in the Italian Peninsula and Islands before the Suppression,” Jesuit Historiography Online, http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/jesuit-historiography-online/the-historiography-of-jesuits-in-the-italian-peninsula-and-islands-before-the-suppression-COM_192580?s.num=1 (invited submission).
Professional Activities, Awards, and Honors:
- Princeton University Friends of the Library Short-Term Fellowship, June 2018
- Yale University Beinecke Library Visiting Research Fellowship, October-November 2016
- Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship, July 2013
- Member, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (President, 2018), American Catholic Historical Association, Renaissance Society of America, American Historical Association
- Associate Editor, Journal of Jesuit Studies
Current Research:
- European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project: website [www.jesuit-libraries.com]. Portions of this research have been funded by Yale and Princeton Universities and by Georgia Southern; students from both the Armstrong and Statesboro campuses have served as for-credit or paid interns.
- A study of the Medici (Grand) Ducal consorts, 1532-1621
Last updated: 9/20/2022