lay learning and the bible in the seventeenth-century atlantic world

Kirsten Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Early Modernities, University of Chicago

Kirsten Macfarlane is Associate Professor of Early Modernities at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her interests span early modern Europe and North America, lying at the intersection of religious, cultural, and intellectual history. She was previously an associate professor at the University of Oxford, where she also received her BA, MSt, and DPhil. Her research has been supported by fellowships from Trinity College, Cambridge; the Houghton Library; the Massachusetts Historical Society; the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study; KU Leuven; and Lund University.