Rate My Professor Jennifer McNabb

A scholar of early modern England, McNabb's research examines the legal and social processes of courtship and marriage during the long Reformation, alongside topics in early modern women and religion, the history of witchcraft in Europe and America, and Renaissance and Reformation Europe. Her key publications include the forthcoming book An Introduction to Medieval England with University of Toronto Press (submission September 2024), the chapter “ ‘Many tokens passed betwixe them’: Negotiating Meaning in the Matrimonial Market of Early Modern England” in Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace (Routledge, 2022), and “ ‘She is but a girl’: Talk of Young Women as Daughters, Wives, and Mothers in the Records of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1550-1650” in The Youth of Early Modern Women (Amsterdam University Press, 2018). She has published refereed articles in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Women’s History Journal of the Wooden O, Quidditas, and Cheshire History. McNabb has created multimedia courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium and Audible.com, such as Sex in the Middle Ages (2023), Sex, Love, and Marriage in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2021), Witchcraft in the Western Tradition (2020), and Renaissance: The Transformation of the West (2018). As co-principal investigator, she secured a 2022 National Endowment for the Humanities Humanities Connections grant ($35,000) and a 2023 UNI Office of Research & Sponsored Programs Capacity Building Grant ($10,000) for “Humanities for Civic Education: Preparing Teachers and Students for Engaged Citizenship.” She previously served as president of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association (2015-2017), is incoming president of the Midwest Conference on British Studies, co-leads UNI’s Center for Civic Education, and facilitates American Historical Association department chairs’ workshops.