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Rachel Weil

Associate Professor

Office: 434 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-8897
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: rjw5@cornell.edu

Office Hours: TBA

Education

Ph.D. Princeton University, 1991
M.A. Princeton University, 1984
B.A. Brown University, 1981

Courses

Fall 2008:
3050
Eighteenth-Century Britain
6231
Intellectual History in Early Modern Empire
Spring 2009:
1230
FWS: Monsterous Births in Europe 1500-1800
1511
Introduction to Western Civilization

Recent Publications and Awards

Publications

“The Politics of Informing in the 1690s: Matthew Smith versus the ‘Great Men’” in Steve Pincus and Peter Lake, eds. The Public Sphere in Early Modern England (Manchester University Press, forthcoming.)

“Political Passions: Gender, the Family & Political Argument in England 1680-1714” (1999 Manchester University Press.)

Awards

1999 Huntington library short-term research fellowship.