Jamie A. Gianoutsos

Jamie Gianoutsos is Professor of History at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland. As an historian of republics and their long legacies in Europe and America, she publishes widely on ideas of liberty and how these developed especially in the Renaissance and Enlightenment through stories, news, education, and activism. Jamie earned a Ph.D. in History from the Johns Hopkins University in 2014. Prior education included an undergraduate degree at Baylor University, and in 2006, she was awarded a Marshall Scholarship, which funded two graduate degrees in the United Kingdom: an MA in English Renaissance Literature at the Queen's University in Belfast and an MPhil in Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, England. Her first book, The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603-1660 (Cambridge UP, 2020) won the Istvan Hont Prize for Best Book in Intellectual History.