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Kirsten Macfarlane is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School specializing in Early Modern Religious Intellectual History and History. Her research interests lie at the intersection of religious, cultural, and intellectual history, with particular emphasis on biblical scholarship. Macfarlane's work seeks to explore the contributions of Latin-speaking scholarly elites and their interactions with vernacular religious culture, as well as the relationship between theological controversy and confessional identity. She is the author of the book 'Elizabethan Hebraist Hugh Broughton: Biblical Scholarship in the Age of Controversy' published by Oxford University Press in 2021. Additionally, Macfarlane co-edited a volume titled 'Joanna Weinberg and Piet van Boxel: Early Modern Reception of the Mishnah' in 2022, and is currently working on a monograph entitled 'Lay Learning Bible: The Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World' expected to be published by Oxford University Press in 2024. Her research has received support from various fellowships and grants, and she is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for 'Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture Sources' and an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Department of Philosophy