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Jessica Sharkey

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Administrative Posts

Director of Teaching and Learning, School of History and Art History (2024 -)

Administrative Posts

Deputy Head of School, History and Art History (2024 - )

Academic Background

PhD in History, Clare College, University of Cambridge (2008)

MPhil in Early Modern History, Clare College, University of Cambridge (2004)

MA (Hons) in History, St Andrews University (2003)

Teaching Interests

I teach both undergraduate and postgraduate early modern history.  I have taught across a wide range of subjects from Imperial Rome to the Wars of the Roses, but I specialize in sixteenth-century England and its relations with Europe and the wider world.

Areas of Expertise

Tudor history; the origins of empire; Anglo-European diplomatic relations