Faculty

Paul Griffiths

Associate Professor

629 Ross Hall
Dept. of History
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-6266
Email: pgriff@iastate.edu

Education
Ph.D., Cambridge University
 
Research and Teaching Interests
Early Modern English
Social and Cultural History
 
Selected Publications
Lost Londons: Crime, Control, and Change in the Capital City, 1545-1660, (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press)
 
Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900: Punishing the English (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
 
Ed., (with Mark Jenner), Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London (Manchester University Press, 2000).
 
Youth and Authority: Formative Experiences in England, 1560-1640 (Oxford University Press, 1996).
 
Ed., (with Adam Fox and Steve Hindle), The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England (MacMillan, 1996)
 
Courses Taught
"Monstrous London": London's Histories 1500-1800
Crime and Policing in England, 1500-1800
Punishment, Mentalities, and Society in England, 1550-1868
Rural Society and Culture in Early Modern Britain
Society, Culture and Politics in Early Modern England
The Cultural History of Early Modern Europe
 
Professional Activity
Professor Griffiths sits on the editorial board for Scribners which has just produced (Dec/2003) the six-volume Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World