Amanda Capern

Dr Amanda Capern is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Women's History at the University of Hull's School of Humanities, History Department. She specializes in early-modern British and European women's and gender history, currently editing The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe. Her research focuses on authority, power, and emotions, with an ongoing book project on family relations, finances, and law courts. She leads the Gender, Place and Memory interdisciplinary research cluster, exploring early-modern women's property ownership. Additionally, she co-edits the Palgrave book series Gender and History.

Her teaching includes undergraduate courses on 'Early Modern People and their Worlds' and 'Gender, Society and Culture in Early Modern England,' as well as postgraduate modules on medieval and early-modern European history. She actively supervises PhD students on topics such as women's legal agency, property ownership, and gender in political culture.

Dr Capern has secured grants from funders like the Leverhulme Trust and Economic History Society for projects like 'Going to Chancery: Gender, Family and Law in England, 1550-1750.' Her work bridges law, gender, and social dynamics, with publications analyzing women's roles in equity courts, aristocratic succession, and female economic strategies in urban contexts.

Her research clusters and collaborations emphasize interdisciplinary exploration of gender, place, and memory. Current projects include analyzing women’s legal agency in Chancery and mapping sexual inequality through property histories.