Jacob Melish Adjunct Professorial Lecturer History
- Bio
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Jacob D. Melish grew up in Liverpool, England. He received his PhD at the University of Michigan鈥揂nn Arbor. He also has a graduate degree from the 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and a BA from Tulane University, New Orleans. Before coming to AU he was an Associate Professor at the University of Northern Colorado.
His research concerns early modern Paris, working women and gender relations, and law and society. He is working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled, 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Everyday Authority: Managing Men, Money & Sex in Early Modern Paris.鈥 It examines working women鈥檚 roles in shaping key areas of men鈥檚 world: managing the front end and the finances of the family businesses that made up the pre-industrial urban economy; informally regulating men鈥檚 behavior, especially inter-male violence; and strategically using their heterosexuality.
His teaching fields include early modern Europe, particularly France and England; women, men and gender since 1500; and climate change, nature, and society in Western Europe from 1500 to the present. He has also taught courses on religion and society in early modern Europe, the Enlightenment, the Atlantic world, and both halves of the world history survey.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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HIST-110 Renaissance and Revolutions
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HIST-110 Renaissance and Revolutions