Biography

 

Madeline McMahon

Madeline McMahon

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2014 MPhil Early Modern History
  • Trinity College

I graduated from Princeton University in 2013 with a BA in History and minors in European Cultural Studies, Latin, and Medieval Studies. After that, I spent a year in New York City reading Greek and Latin texts as a member of Columbia University's post-baccalaureate program in Classics and working on an upcoming exhibit on annotated books at the New York Society Library. My research interests lie at the intersection of scholarship, religion, and intellectual history in early modern Europe, particularly England—a time and place where decisions about history and theology could be matters of life and death. I'm interested in the ways in which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century churchmen drew on ecclesiastical history as they defended and shaped the nascent Church of England. I look forward to working further on this and related subjects at Cambridge. I am also passionate about education and advocating for the humanities and the arts.