April G. Shelford

Ph.D. in History, Princeton University

Specialty: Early Modern European Intellectual History

Fields of Interest:

Histories of religion, science, classical tradition

The Republic of Letters, intellectual sociability in 17^th and 18^th centuries

Intellectual culture in the 18^th-century Caribbean and the Atlantic World

Selected publications:

Transforming the Republic of Letters:

Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720

(University of Rochester Press, forthcoming)

“Of Sceptres and Censors:

Biblical Interpretation and Censorship in Seventeenth-Century France”

French History 20 (2006)

“Cautious Curiosity:

The Legacies of a Jesuit Scientific Education”

History of Universities 19:2 (2004)

“Sea Tales: Nature and Liberty in an English Seaman’s Journal”

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 33 (2004)

“Thinking Geometrically in Pierre-Daniel Huet's Demonstratio evangelica (1679)”

Journal of the History of Ideas (October 2002)

Winner of the Selma V. Forkosch Prize for Best Article in 2002

Selected courses

Interpreting the New World, 1492-1700 (Undergrad and Grad)

The Enlightenment (Undergrad and Grad)

Renaissance and Revolutions,

a general education survey of early modern European history

(Undergrad honors and regular)

The Medieval World (Undergrad)

History through Autobiography (Undergrad honors)

From Religious Conflict to Religious Toleration (Freshman & sophomore seminar)

Topics in Early Modern European History (Grad)