Amy Houston

Assistant Professor of History

A.M. and Ph. D., History, Harvard University
B.A., History, The College of Idaho

Email: ahouston@stonehill.edu
Phone: (508) 565- 1234
Office: Duffy Academic Center, 275

My general area of study is the cultural, religious and intellectual history of early modern Europe, especially France. My specific interests include the history of the book and the dissemination of print, the French civil and religious wars of the sixteenth century, cultural and intellectual responses to warfare, religious conflict and coexistence in Reformation-era Europe, the history of medicine, the relationship between popular and learned culture, and the history of magic and witchcraft in the early modern period.

Courses Taught:

• The Age of Absolutism
• Critical Encounters: History (Stories, Myths and Lies in Early Modern Europe)
• Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700
• The French Revolution
• Historical Methods and Materials
• Modern France
• Western Civilization I and II
• Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe