ISS 2105

The Origins of the Contemporary West I

Spring 2026
Class # 26457
CSE 0429
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
MWF 11:45 AM - 12:35 PM

Course Syllabus

Instructor

Kathryn Marshalek

Assistant Professor of Humanities

Kathryn Marshalek is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School. Marshalek is a historian of early modern Britain and Europe. Her research is focused on the destabilizing political force of persistent religious pluralism both within and between states in Europe after the legal and doctrinal Reformation of the mid-sixteenth century. She is broadly interested in popular political communication, new diplomatic history, parliamentary studies, and resistance theory. Her work has appeared in The English Historical Review, Historical Research, and Renaissance Quarterly.

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