Michael Graham

Dr. Michael F. Graham is Professor of History at the University of Akron, specializing in British and northern European history between 1500-1800. His research examines religious transformations, everyday life, and print culture during early modernity. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1993.

His scholarly contributions include the award-winning monograph The Uses of Reform (1996), which received the Sixteenth Century Studies Society's Roland Bainton Book Prize, and The Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead (2008) exploring Britain's last blasphemy execution. Dr. Graham's work analyzes societal responses to religious change and the intersection of print media with cultural shifts.

Honors include the James Cameron Faculty Fellowship at the University of St. Andrews (2003) and visiting fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (2011). Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2003, he continues to investigate how communities navigated religious and cultural transformations in early modern Britain.