Yasmine Atlas

Fr Martin Magill is a Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Down and Connor in Northern Ireland. Ordained in 1988, he has ministered in parishes across Belfast and County Antrim, most recently serving as Parish Priest of St John’s on the Falls Road from 2017 to 2026. In 2013, he co-founded Belfa

Liesbeth Corens is an early modern historian specialising in the history of mobility and archives  with a particular focus on Catholic communities in England and the Dutch Republic. Her first book was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 and entitled Confessional Mobility and English Cathol

Hilary J. Bernstein is a Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first book, Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers (Cornell, 2004), examines the development of political language, concepts of governance and participatio

Marie Raulier is a Barker Fellow working with Richard Scholar on the ‘Imagining Alternatives : Utopia in the World’ project as part of the Inventing Futures Programme at the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS). During her fellowship at Durham, she will examine representation

Will Hamlin is Professor Emeritus of English at Washington State University, having retired in June 2024 after forty years of teaching. A recipient of research fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Renaissance Society of America, and the National Endowmen

Eric is a Professor of History at Missouri State University in the United States.  His two monographs have engaged with the challenges of peacemaking after sectarian violence in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. His most recent entitled The Legacy of Iconoclasm focused on the uses of memor

A first generation scholar from Bishop Auckland, Anne’s heart is in Durham and she has spent most of her 40-year career here in higher education, heritage management and regeneration.  She came to Durham in 1986 to read archaeology and after a masters at St Andrews returned to take up a Junior Re

Bible scholar Ben Witherington is Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary and on the doctoral faculty at St. Andrews University. A graduate of UNC, Chapel Hill, he went on to receive the M.Div. degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. fr

David is Assistant Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research broadly focuses on religious conflict and peacebuilding in early modern France, and has been awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize and the Harold J. Grimm Prize by the Sixteenth Centur

Sherilyn Bouyer is working with Tom Hamilton on the Forging Social Solidarities during Religious Wars  Inventing Futures (IF) project to develop her contribution to The Oxford Handbook of the French Wars of Religion on ‘Postwar Justice’. She has recently submitted her PhD at the University