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Linda Pollock is the John Christie Barr Professor of History at Tulane University, specializing in the social and cultural history of early modern England. She earned her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 1982. Her research examines childhood, family structures, emotional expression, medical practices, and religious influences in 1500-1800 Europe, with methodological emphasis on diary analysis and comparative social frameworks.
Publications include award-winning books such as Forgotten Children: Parent-Child Relations from 1500 to 1900 (1983) and With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman (1993), translated into Japanese and Spanish. Recent work explores emotion ethics and merchant life in early modern economies.
Notable honors include a national book prize (1984) and Choice Outstanding Academic Title recognition (2003). She teaches courses on Tudor-Stuart England, gender history, and historical methodologies.
Dr. Pollock frequently delivers keynote addresses on affective bonds in historical contexts and directs graduate research on pre-industrial European society.
