Alexandra Shepard

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Alexandra Shepard
FRHistS FBA FRSE
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
TitleProfessor of Gender History
Spouse
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(m. 2001;died 2019)​
Children1
Awards Leo Gershoy Award
Academic background
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Thesis Meanings of manhood in early modern England: with special reference to Cambridge, c.1560-1640 (1998)
Doctoral advisor Keith Wrightson
Institutions St John's College, Oxford
University of Sussex
Christ's College, Cambridge
University of Glasgow
Notable worksAccounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England

Alexandra Jane Shepard FRHistS FBA FRSE [1] is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow. [2] In 2018 Shepard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy [3] in recognition for her work in gender history and the social history of early modern Britain. [4] In 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [5]

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Career

Shepard is Professor of Gender History within the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow, where her research interests focus on early modern British history, with an emphasis on the social, cultural and economic history and gender relations. [2] Her work has particular emphasis on masculinity in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, and more recently has undertaken comparative research on women's work and agency in early modern history. [6] Her work has contributed to changing the understanding of working-class life over the past five centuries. [7]

She is Co-Investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project ‘Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice: Britain and Ireland, c.1100-c.1750’, [4] which explores women's access to justice across Britain and Ireland between the 12th and 18th centuries. [8] Shepard also leads a Leverhulme International Network Grant on “Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe", [4] awarded in 2015. [9]

She has previously taught and researched at St John's College, Oxford, the University of Sussex and Christ's College, Cambridge. [10] Her PhD thesis [11] studied Early Modern student life at Cambridge University, and in particular how undergraduate students expressed their male identities. [12] The thesis was supervised by Keith Wrightson. [13]

Awards

Shepard won the Leo Gershoy Award in 2016 for second book, Accounting for Oneself, published in February 2015; an annual prize awarded by the American Historical Association for outstanding works published on 17th- and 18th-century European history’. [14] The book, a culmination of a decade of work, examines how ordinary people valued themselves and understood social order and self-esteem, using innovative methods of historiography. [15] Shepard used over 13,000 witness statements, of which 3,331 were by women, made between the years 1550 to 1728 in church courts and Cambridge University courts, to examine the relationship between wealth, occupation and social identity. [16]

In 2004, whilst at Christ's College, Cambridge, Shepard was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. [12] In 2017, Shepard received a Leverhulme Research Fellowships for research on family and economy in England, 1660–1815. [17]

Personal life

Shepard married engineering scientist Jason Reese, latterly Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, in 2001. [18] Their daughter Zoe was born in 2007. [19] Reese died of a suspected heart attack in March 2019. [18]

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  1. ↑ "List of Fellows (February 2024)" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  2. 1 2 "University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan - Our staff - Professor Alexandra J Shepard". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Three Scots academics honoured with prestigious fellowship" . Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 "University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - MyGlasgow News - People and projects - Three UofG academics elected Fellows of the British Academy". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Professor Alexandra Shepard FRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  6. ↑ "Prof. Alex Shepard". womenhistorylaw.org.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  7. ↑ Letters (12 February 2016). "Give female historians the credit we deserve | Letters". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice: Britain and Ireland c.1100-c.1750". www.swansea.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "International Networks – June 2015" (PDF). The Leverhulme Trust. 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  10. ↑ Identity and agency in England, 1500-1800. French, Henry, 1968-, Barry, Jonathan, 1956-. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. ISBN   978-0230523104. OCLC   71354443.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  11. ↑ Jane, Shepard, Alexandra (1 January 1998). Meanings of manhood in Early Modern England : with special reference to Cambridge, c. 1560-1640 (Thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/cam.19965.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. 1 2 "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2004" (PDF). The Leverhulme Trust. 2004. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  13. ↑ Shepard, Alexandra (2003). Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. vii. ISBN   9780198208184.{{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  14. ↑ "Leo Gershoy Award Recipients | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  15. ↑ "University of Glasgow - University news - Archive of news - 2016 - October - American Historical Association award for University of Glasgow professor". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  16. ↑ Reinke-Williams, Tim (2016). "Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status and the Social Order in Early Modern England, by Alexandra Shepard". The English Historical Review. 131 (550): 668–670. doi:10.1093/ehr/cew071. ISSN   0013-8266.
  17. ↑ "Major Research Fellowships 2017" (PDF). Leverhulme Trust. 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  18. 1 2 "Obituary: Jason Reese". The Times. 23 March 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  19. ↑ "Obituary: Professor Jason Meredith Reese". University of Edinburgh School of Engineering. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
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