Curriculum Vitae

Cynthia B. Herrup

202 Carr Building
Durham, NC 27708

(email)

Education

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: William Kenneth Boyd Chair in History, Duke University, May 2003-

Professional Service

Departmental Officer: Director of Graduate Studies, 7/2003-12/2004; Associate Chair, 7/99-7/03

Departmental Committee: Chair, Graduate Committee, 7/99-7/03; Carnegie Initiative Core Group, 1 May 2003; Graduate Committee, 1 July 1999; Executive Committee, 1 July 1999; Promotion Committee, Laura Edwards, December 2004; Tenure Committee for Edward Balleisen, May-November 2003; Search Committee, Department Chair, 2002-03

University Committee: Executive Committee, Graduate School, 1 July 2003; Board of Advisors, John Hope Franklin Institute, 1 July 2003; Executive Committee, Medieval and Renaissance Studies program, 1 July 1997; Search Committee [as above], 0000; President's Committe to Review the Provost, September-December 2002; Co-Director, John Hope Franklin Institute for the Humanities Seminar, 2001-02; Mellon Minority Fellowship Selection Committee, January-July 2001; Mentor, Mellon Minority Fellowship Committee, 2000-1998

Service to the Profession: President, North American Conference on British Studies, 10/03-; editorial board, History Compass, 1 July 2003; editorial board, Journal of Cultural and Social History, 1 July 2003; Viisting Committee, Harvard University History Department, 1 July 2003; Editorial Advisory Board, Duke University Press, 1 July 2002; Editorial Board, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1 July 1998; Editorial Board, Huntington Library Quarterly, 1 July 1997; American Society for Legal History, Publication Committee, December 2004; Network for early european research, Australia Research Council, December 2004; Committee on Committees, American Historical Association, 2000-02; fellowship committee, American Council of Learned Sociieties, 2001-02; Associate Editor, New Dictionary of National Biography, 1997-2002

Other: Outside tenure and promotion reviews, December 2004; Outside reviews and evaluations, 2002-03

Selected Recent Invited Talks: 'Constituting mercy', University of Sussex Faculty Seminar, May 2003; Alan Bray and 'The Friend', Birkbeck College, London, September 2003; Chair and Commentator, 'Vagrant Bodies', Anglo-American Conference, London, July, 2003; The mercy of the people, North American Conference on British Studies, Toronto CA, Nov 2001; Comus: Occasions and Ideologies, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, March 2001; Mercy and Kingship in Shakespeare's England, Henry E. Huntington Library, Pasadena CA, Feb 2001; Dangerous Mercies, North American Conference on British Studies, Pasadena CA, October 2000; Legalisms, Shakespeare Association of America seminar, Montreal, CA, April 2000

Doctoral Theses Directed: Jacob W. Selwood,, (May 2003); Philippe Rosenberg, (Asst. Prof, Emory Univ.)

Publications

Books

"When Mercy Seasons Justice": Pardons and Culture in Early Modern England (forthcoming, 2007) (under contract to Cambridge University Press.)
A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1999), Oxford University Press (ppb, 2001; Notable Trials book club edition, 2001.)

Papers Published

The punishing pardon: some thoughts on the origins of penal transportation, in Penal practice and culture 1500-1900: punishing the English, edited by Simon Devereux and Paul Griffiths (2004), pp. 121-138, Macmillan
Mervin Touchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, in New Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
Review: Lorna Hutson and Victoria Kahn, eds., Rhetoric and law in early modern Europe, Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 40 no. 3 (2003), pp. 337-340
Re-reading politics, Shakespeare Studies, vol. 31 (2003), pp. 288-95
Negotiating Grace, in Politics, Religion and Popularity: Essays for Conrad Russell, edited by Tom Cogswell, Richard Cust and Peter Lake (2002), pp. 124-140, Cambridge
Finding the Bodies, GLQ, vol. 5 no. 3 (1999), pp. 255-65

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