Rachel J. Weil

 

51 Ovid Street                                                   History Department

Seneca Falls, NY 13148                                     450 McGraw Hall

315-568-5430                                                    Cornell University

rjw5@cornell.edu                                              Ithaca, NY 14853-4601

                                                                         607-255-8862/8897

 

EDUCATION:

            1991 Ph.D., European History, Princeton University.

            1984 M.A.,  European History, Princeton University.

            1981 B.A.,   Honors in History, Brown University.

 

EMPLOYMENT:

            1998-present  Associate Professor, Cornell University

            1992-98         Assistant Professor, Cornell University

            1990-92         Assistant Professor, University of Georgia

 

 

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

 

2006-7 Fellow, National Humanities Center

2006-7 Awarded NEH/Folger Longterm Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library (declined).

1999 Huntington Library Research Fellowship, 3 months residence

1992  Princeton University History Department, Annual Prize for Best Dissertation

1987-88 American Association of University Women, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

A. Book

 

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

 

 

B. Articles and selected reviews

 

"The public, the private and feminist historiography," Histoire sociale/Social History XL (November, 2007)

 

"The Female Politician in the Late Stuart Age" in Julia M. Alexander and Catherine Macleod, eds. Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II (Yale University Press, 2007).

 

"The politics of informing in the 1690s: Matthew Smith versus the 'Great Men'" in Steve Pincus & Peter Lake, eds, The Politics of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England (Manchester University Press,2007).

 

"Thinking about Allegiance in the English Civil War" (History Workshop Journal, Spring 2006).

 

Five articles ("Mary Love, religious writer and biographer"; "Henry Herbert, 1st Baron of Cherbury, politician"; "Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, politician,";" Mary Howard née Mordaunt, Duchess of Norfolk, noblewoman and divorcee,"; "Elizabeth Villiers, Countess of Orkney, presumed mistress of William III") Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

 

"Der königliche Leib, sein Geschlecht und die Konstruktion der Monarchie" ["Royal Flesh, Gender and the Construction of Monarchy"] in  Regina Schulte, ed. Der Körper der Königin [The Body of the Queen] (Campus Verlag, 2002).

 

‘The family in the Exclusion crisis: Locke vs. Filmer revisited’ in Alan Houston and Steve Pincus, eds., A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

 

"'If I did say so I lyed': Elizabeth Cellier and the Construction of Credibility in the Popish Plot Crisis," in S.D. Amussen and M. Kishlansky, eds., Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England (Manchester U. Press, 1995).

 

"Sometimes a Sceptre is only a Sceptre: Pornography and Politics in Restoration England" in Lynn Hunt, ed. The Invention of Pornography ( NY: Zone Books, 1993).

 

"Gender and the Historian's Eighteenth Century," (review essay) Journal of British Studies (1992).

 

"The Politics of Legitimacy: Women and the Warming Pan Scandal," in Lois Schwoerer, ed., The Revolution of 1688-89: Changing Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

 

"'The Crown has Fallen to the Distaff:' Gender and Politics in the Age of Catherine de Medici," Critical Matrix 1, #4 (1985).

 

 

Recent  (selected) conference papers and talks

 

"The Politics of National Security after the Revolution of 1688," Conference on Civil and Religious Liberty, Yale University, July 2008.

 

"Telling the Truth about Conspiracy: Richard Kingston and the Problem of Credibility in Williamite England," Johns Hopkins University History Seminar (invited), October 2007.

 

Defending the Lancashire Gentlemen: Conspiracy and Political Culture in Williamite England (Yale University British Studies Colloquium, February 16, 2006).

 

'Women as Political Informers,' Conference on Gender and Popular Culture 1650-1750, University of Michigan (October 2005).

 

'Forgetting disloyalty and constructing (change of) allegiance in the Interregnum,' Bangor Conference on the Restoration, Bangor, Wales (July, 2005)

 

The politics of informing in the 1690s: Matthew Smith versus the 'Great Men'" Conference on Religion and the early modern Public sphere, Keele University, UK, June 2003)

 

Respondent, panel discussion of my book, Political Passions, conference on  Law, Family, and State Organization in the Early Modern Atlantic World, University of Wisconsin, October 2002

 

‘The female politician in the late Stuart Age,’ (invited speaker) conference on Women at the Court of Charles II, Yale Center for British Art (January, 2002)

 

‘Of trimmers, turncoats and tender consciences: the epistemology of loyalty in 17th century England,’  Chicago Area British Studies seminar (invited), April 2001 and North American Conference on British Studies, Toronto, October 2001.

 

‘Royal Flesh, gender and the construction of monarchy’ (invited ) conference on ‘The Body and Image of the Queen’ , European University, Florence, Italy September, 2001.

 

“Gender” , conference on ‘England’s Age of Revolution,’ University of Chicago (invited ) November 2001.

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT

 

Lectures:

Early Modern England

Britain 1660-1815

Western Civilization II (Europe 1500-present)

The Atlantic World from Conquest to Revolution (team-taught)

 

Seminars:

Honors Proseminar

Graduate Intro Course

European Colloquium

Early Modern England/Political Culture

Knowledge and Politics in 17th century England

Gender and power in Early modern England

The English Revolution

The Age of Atlantic Revolutions

Gender in Early Modern Europe