Elizabeth Herman
Elizabeth Herman joined the Yale History Department in the Fall of 2007. Her main areas of interest are the religious and intellectual history of early modern Europe and England, specifically recreating the mental world of belief systems. She did orals fields (2010) in Early Modern European Religion (Bruce Gordon), Modern European Intellectual History (Frank Turner), and Early Modern Britain (Steve Pincus). She has taught Colonial American History and European History, 1648-1948.
Elizabeth is currently working on her dissertation, Envisioning Heaven in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England, an interdisciplinary project using literary, theological, and historical sources to understand what English Protestants' visions of heavenly happiness were, how they emerged, how they reflected the longings and desires of temporal life, and the relationship of that temporal life to the divine. The project also seeks to understand the dialogue between different ideas in society, between ideals and the complexities of social reality, and between continuity and change in the era of the Reformation. Her dissertation adviser is Bruce Gordon.
Prior to coming to Yale, Elizabeth graduated with a B.A. from Tufts University in 2006, where she studied history and political philosophy.
