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Dr. Lucy Clarke is an Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield’s School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities. Her research focuses on early modern English state formation as a performative process, emphasizing the socio-legal dynamics of authority and resistance. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and has held fellowships at institutions including the Leverhulme Trust and the Huntington Library. Her work integrates practice-as-research methodologies, using staged reenactments of historical legal encounters to illuminate the fragility of early modern state power. Clarke’s interdisciplinary approach bridges history, performance studies, and legal theory, challenging traditional narratives of state inevitability.
Education:
- BA (History and English), University of Oxford (2013–2016)
- MA (Shakespeare Studies), King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe (2016–2017)
- DPhil (History), University of Oxford (2017–2022)
Research Interests: She examines how state authority was enacted through bodily performance, particularly in magisterial interactions, and how resistance to governance reveals popular legal consciousness. Her current Leverhulme-funded project analyzes Star Chamber records alongside practice-based reconstructions to explore the spatial and corporeal dimensions of power.
Awards:
- Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship
- Scouloudi Doctoral Fellowship, Institute of Historical Research
- Short-Term Fellowship, Huntington Library
Labs/Teams: Collaborates with the Digital Humanities Institute at Sheffield and practice-based researchers in historical methodology.
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