Paul Griffiths

Biography

He is a cultural and social historian of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and he have been putting together a body of work for a quarter of a century now since his Cambridge PhD (1992) that is connected by a string of themes and topics that include crime, policing, punishment, surveillance, houses of correction and prisons, towns and cities, youth, gender, sexuality, medical care, and identities. His major fellowships include the Frank H. Kenan Fellowship at the National Humanities Centre, a Huntington Library fellowship, and a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship.

Research Interest

Cultural and social history.