Nikki Shepardson, Ph.D.
- Email Address: nshepardson@rider.edu
- Phone: 609-895-5459
- Office: Fine Arts 229
- Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Teaches early modern and modern European history including women's history and the history of Christianity. Her research concentrates on martyrs and martyrdom in sixteenth-century France as well as gender issues in the Renaissance and Reformation. (Ph.D., Rutgers)
Courses Taught at Rider
- History of Christianity
- World History to 1500
- World History from 1500
- Renaissance and Reformation
- Italy from the Middle Ages to the Present
- Europe Since 1715
- Warfare in History
Educational Background
- Ph.D., European History, Rutgers University
- M.A. History, Rutgers University
- B.A. History, University of Rochester
- Secondary Education Certification Social Studies, University of Rochester
Professional Background
- Rider University
Assistant Professor
2000-present - New Jersey History, Newark, NJ
Editor
1999-2001 - Rider University
Instructor
1998-1999 - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Instructor
1996-1997 - Journal of the History of Ideas, New Brunswick, NJ
Editorial Assistant
1992-1998
Awards, Fellowships, Etc.
- Graduate Fellow, Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, 1995-1996
- Marion Johnson Fellowship, Rutgers University
Publications
- "Martyrs and Martyrdom" and "Théodore Beza." The Dictionary of Early Modern Europe, ed. Jonathan Dewald, Scribner's Sons (Forthcoming)
- "Gender and the Rhetoric of Martyrdom in Jean Crespin's Histoire des vrays tesmoins," Sixteenth Century Journal, (Forthcoming)
- "Martyrology," A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, ed. D. R. Woolf, Garland Publishers, 1998.
Research
- Revision of manuscript, "'Le zèle ardent': The Rhetoric of Martyrdom and the French Protestant Community, 1520-1572."
- Article in progress, "Martyrdom and Amendes honorables: Criminal Penalties, Rituals of Repentance, and Obstinate Protestants in Sixteenth Century France."
