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First Name
Jamie
Last Name
Gianoutsos
Country
United States
State
MD
Affiliation
Mount St. Mary's University (Maryland)
Website URL
www.jamiegianoutsos.com
Keywords
Republics and Revolutions, Early Modern Europe, especially Britain, Intellectual and Gender History, Anglo-American Tradition of Political Thought, Renaissance Literature, Medieval History and Literature, Great Books: Classical to Contemporary
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About Me

Jamie Gianoutsos is Professor of History at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland. As an historian of republics and their long legacies in Europe and America, she publishes widely on ideas of liberty and how these developed especially in the Renaissance and Enlightenment through stories, news, education, and activism. Her first trade book, In Rome’s Long Shadow, is forthcoming with Penguin Press / Allen Lane (UK) and the University of California Press (US). Jamie earned a Ph.D. in History from the Johns Hopkins University in 2014. Prior education included an undergraduate degree at Baylor University, and in 2006, she was awarded a Marshall Scholarship, which funded two graduate degrees in the United Kingdom: an MA in English Renaissance Literature at the Queen’s University in Belfast and an MPhil in Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, England. Her first book, The Rule of Manhood (Cambridge UP, 2020) won the Istvan Hont Prize for Best Book in Intellectual History. www.jamiegianoutsos.com

Recent Publications

Book: In Rome’s Long Shadow: How the Classical Tradition Shaped the Modern World. University of California Press, Jan. 2027. For UK Edition: Allen Lane 2026.

Book: The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603-1660. Studies in Early Modern British History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Awarded the Istvan Hont Book Prize for best work in intellectual history in 2020. Forthcoming in Chinese.

Articles and Book Chapters:

  1. “Can Women Have a Machiavellian Moment? Gender and Citizenship in J. G. A. Pocock’s Republicanism,” special issue of “Pocockian Worlds.” History of European Ideas (forthcoming).
  2. “Freedom of Speech, News, and the Classical Republican Tradition in England.” Historical Research 277 (Aug. 2024): 329-346.
  3. “Loyalty to a Nero? Publicising Puritan Persecution in the 1630s.” Loyalty to the Monarchs of Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688. Eds. Matthew Ward and Matthew Hefferan, 174-99. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
  4. “Sapientia and Stultitia in John Colet’s Commentary on First Corinthians.” Reformation & Renaissance Review vol. 21 (2019): 109-25.
  5. “‘A New Discovery’ of Charles Hoole: Method and Practice in Seventeenth-Century English Education.” History of Education 48.1 (2019): 1-18.
  6. “Criticizing Kings: Gender, Classical History, and Subversive Writing in Seventeenth-Century England.” Renaissance Quarterly 70.4 (Winter 2017): 1366-1396.

Public Projects, Invited Lectures, and Interviews:

  1. “To What Should He Swear? Coronation Oaths and King Charles III,” Broadsides, official blog of the North American Conference on British Studies, April 2023.
  2. “Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians: Dr. Jamie Gianoutsos,” with Selma Sondern, Institute of Intellectual History, St Andrews, June 2022 (Interview Available Here)
  3. “Free Speech, News, and Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century England.” Istvan Hont Memorial Lecture, Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews, May 2022.
  4. “Does Partisan News Destroy Democracy?” Ducharme Veritas Lecture, Mount St. Mary’s University, March 2022.
  5. “Marx Madness: Karl Marx Explains Marxism and his ‘Communist Manifesto,’” First Person Philosophy animated educational videos (running time 21:55), November 2021, with Dr. Mike Miller.
  6. “Interview: The Rule of Manhood, New Work in Intellectual History,” with Megan Chance, Institute of Intellectual History, St Andrews, November 2021
  7. “Were Republics Designed Only for Men?” Association of Marshall Scholars Public Presentation, December 2020.
  8. “Tales of the Unexpected: Reflections on a Journey of Engaged Learning,” Baylor Arts & Sciences magazine, April 2018.
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Early Modern Europe and Atlantic World
Expertise by Geography
Atlantic, British Isles, England, France, United Kingdom, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Ancient, Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Family, Gender, Government, Human Rights, Literary History, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution, Religion, Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women