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

Website:

• https://sites.google.com/a/georgiasouthern.edu/kcomerfo/
• https://www.georgiasouthern.edu/cah/prelaw/

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:

• “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).

• “Corresponding Consorts: Letters between Medici (Grand) Duchesses and Jesuits, 1540s–1620s,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 14/2 (2020): 33-54.

• “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.

• “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.

• 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.

• “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: 12/14/2023