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Current Member

Rachel Weil

Funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Early Modern British History

Home Institution

Cornell University
While at IAS, Rachel Weil will research a book about detention in early modern England, reconstructing contestations over the treatment of people (debtors, political suspects, persons awaiting trial) imprisoned for reasons other than having been convicted of a crime and historicizing the complex relationship of detention to punishment.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

Princeton University
Ph.D.
1991