Assistant Professor-Visiting

353B McMicken Hall
513-556-5102
jacob.melish@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Jacob Melish received his PhD in 2005 from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. His teaching interests include the world and the Western civilization surveys, early modern European social, cultural, and religious history, France from 1500 to the present, women and gender, and the early modern Atlantic world. Born in Mississippi, he grew up in England and has family both there and in France. His research interests include early modern France, gender relations, urban history, order and disorder, and the social role of religion. His book manuscript, which is under revision, examines the interaction of men, women, and the state in the maintenance of public order, particularly in regard to violence, in an exceptionally well documented neighborhood of artisans and laborers in early modern Paris.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Jacob Melish (2010). (In Press). "Women and the Courts in the Control of Violence between Men: Evidence from a Parisian Neighborhood under Louis XIV". French Historical Studies, 33 (1).