Jenna Schultz

Jenna Schultz is a Lecturer in the Department of History at Purchase College, SUNY, specializing in early modern European history with a focus on the Anglo-Scottish borderlands (16th-17th centuries), British national identity, and socio-cultural transformations. Her work bridges historical geography, political evolution, and cultural narratives during pivotal unionization periods.

• Education:
• B.A., University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
• M.A. & Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Her research interrogates the 1603 Union of the Crowns through administrative continuity, kinship networks, and cartographic memory. Publications include a monograph on national identity (2019), interdisciplinary essays on border reivers (2016), and Mary, Queen of Scots' Carlisle exile (2015), alongside critical reviews of key historiographical works.

Recent conference presentations include analyses of post-Union border governance at the Huntington Library (2019) and regime change dynamics at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference (2017). She has received multiple professional development and research grants from institutions like the University of St. Thomas and Newberry Library.