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Govind P. Sreenivasan

EDUCATION Harvard University, Ph.D., 1995 Harvard University, M.A., 1989 McGill University, B.A., 1987 RESEARCH INTERESTS Early Modern Europe; rural economy and society; historical demography; Protestant and Catholic Reformations

CURRENT PROJECTS

A microhistory on law and absolutism in 17th Century Germany

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe Cambridge University Press, 2005

COURSES OFFERED AT BRANDEIS

USEM 85b: Breaking the Rules

HIST 56b: World History to 1960

HIST 123b: Reformation Europe [1400-1600]

HIST 126a: Early Modern Europe [1500-1700]

HIST 127b: Household and Family in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe [1300-1800]

HIST 215a: World History

HIST 221b: Colloquium in Early Modern European History