Neuere Geschichte

Dr. Austin Collins

Kontakt

Seminar für Neuere Geschichte
Wilhelmstraße 36
72074 Tübingen

E-Mail: samuel-austin.collinsspam prevention@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de

Telefon: 07071-29-72386

Sprechstunden im Sommersemester 2024

Nach Vereinbarung per E-Mail.

Dienstzimmer: Hegelbau, 2. Stock, Raum 205


Biographie

I am a historian of early modern European history, with a specialisation in urban, religious, and spatial approaches. My research investigates how monarchical and religious influence interacted with civic authority within urban spaces during the early French Wars of Religion. My current book project, based on my doctoral dissertation and provisionally entitled ‘‘La ville eut l’éphémère honneur d’être comme la capitale du Royaume': A Spatial History of Charles IX’s Royal Tour of France, 1564–1566 (Angoulême, Lyon, Sens)’, explores how royal, civic, and religious actors utilized different urban spaces in France to project their own authority and promote religious toleration and co-existence through royal entrances amid religious warfare. My research incorporates primary source material such as festival books, financial records, correspondences, city council minutes, and maps. Prior to Tübingen, I have taught early modern European seminars at Durham University.

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

2024-2025
Teach@Tübingen Fellow
2019-2023
PhD from Durham University & Universität Erfurt

‘La ville eut l’éphémère honneur d’être comme la capitale du Royaume': A Spatial History of Charles IX’s Royal Tour of France, 1564–1566 (Angoulême, Lyon, Sens)’

2021-2022
Doctoral Fellow, Universität Erfurt
2020-2021; 2022-2023
Seminar Tutor in early modern European history, Durham University
2018-2019
MA in Early Modern History, King’s College London
2014-2018
BA in History and French, Catawba College, USA

Forschung

Forschungsinteressen

• Early Modern France
• French Monarchy
• French Wars of Religion
• Centre & Periphery
• Religious Toleration & Co-Existence
• Urban History
• Visual & Material Culture


Publikationen


Lehrveranstaltungen

Wintersemester 2024/25

Übung

Imagining the City: Urban Spaces in the Global Early Modern Period
Mi., 12-14 Uhr c.t., Ort: Keplerstr. 2, Seminarraum 002
Lehrsprache: englisch
Beginn: 14.10.2024

Übung

Massacres in the Streets: Religious Violence in Early Modern Europe
Di., 16-18 Uhr c.t., Ort: Lothar-Meyer-Bau, Wilhelmstr. 56, Seminarraum 301
Lehrsprache: englisch
Beginn: 15.10.2024

Archiv

Sommersemester 2024
  • Imagining the City: Urban Spaces in the Global Early Modern Period