Professor Dr. Alexandra Walsham

Biography

Alexandra Walsham is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Emmanuel College. She has held the Chair in the Faculty of History from 2019 to 2022 and has over fourteen years of teaching experience at the University of Exeter before returning to Cambridge in 2010. Walsham's academic contributions have earned her prestigious memberships in the British Academy and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In recognition of her services to history, she was appointed CBE in 2017. She has delivered various distinguished lectures and is an editor for the journal Past & Present. Her research interests primarily focus on religious cultural history in early modern Britain, particularly the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and their wider European implications. Walsham has published extensively on themes such as post-Reformation Roman Catholicism, religious tolerance, and the intersections of oral, visual, and written culture during the advent of printing. She is actively involved in supervising MPhil and PhD students and contributes significantly to various editorial boards and academic committees.

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