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Phyllis Mack

Phyllis Mack

Professor of History
Ph.D. Columbia University
M.A. Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
B.A. Harvard-Radcliffe College
224 Van Dyck Hall
(732) 932-7354

Project Leader for the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. Mack recently completed a two-year project at the center entitled “Varieties of Religious Experience.” Her most recent work is Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England, and her forthcoming book is Witchcraft and Magic in Europe.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Women's history, history of religion, early modern European history. Completing a book on 18th century popular religion in England, focusing on gender, selfhood, and spirituality.

REGULARLY TAUGHT COURSES

Undergraduate:
510:253 Witchcraft and Magic
988:350 (cross-listed) Gender and Spirituality
506:373 History of Jewish Women
510:350 The Enlightenment
Graduate:
PDR
Seminar in Women's History
Colloquium in Women's History

PUBLICATIONS

  • *Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in 17th Century England*
  • *In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the 20th Century* co-edited with Omer Bartov

AWARDS

Warren Susmann Teaching Award
Berkshire Prize: best woman's history book

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

AHA
Society for Early Modern Women