Alexandra Shepard
Alexandra Shepard | |
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| Occupations | Historian and academic |
| Title | Professor of Gender History |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Leo Gershoy Award |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Meanings of manhood in early modern England: with special reference to Cambridge, c.1560-1640 (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Keith Wrightson |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | St John's College, Oxford University of Sussex Christ's College, Cambridge University of Glasgow |
| Notable works | Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England |
Alexandra Jane Shepard FRHistS FBA FRSE is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow. In 2018 Shepard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition for her work in gender history and the social history of early modern Britain. In 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.