About
Taylor's research interests deal broadly with women, gender identity, and religion in medieval and early modern England. Her dissertation, titled "Everyday Women and the English Reformation: Gender and Religion in the Diocese of Salisbury, 1450-1600," looks beyond the most legible agents of religious change and focuses instead on how non-elite laywomen adapted reform and its repercussions to meet their spiritual and social needs, engaging gendered practice at the parish level to cultivate meaningful connection with their communities and the divine.
Taylor currently serves as the Graduate Student Public Engagement and Professionalization Coordinator for the History Department and also coordinates the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop.
Fields of Study
- Women's History
- Gender & Sexuality
- Church & Religious History
- Medieval & Early Modern Europe
- Medieval & Early Modern Britain
- Atlantic World
Recent Conference Presentations
Play as Pedagogy Roundtable (Session Organizer), 2021 American Historical Association
"Any Person or Persons, Any Man or Any Woman": Gender, Transgression, and the Parish in the Diocese of Salisbury (Panel Organizer), 2019 Sixteenth-Century Society & Conference
Saints and Siblings: Prescribing and Practicing Sisterhood in Late Medieval England, 2019 American Society of Church History
