- Associate Professor of History
- Chair of Jewish Studies
Education
- BA, Duke University, 1992
- MS, education, Bank Street College, 1995
- MA, Columbia University 1998
- PhD, Columbia University, 2007
Biography
Teaching Interests: Medieval and early modern Europe, especially social, political, and cultural formation of the West from 1000-1700
Research Interests: Urban and legal history, state development, and gender.
Professor Wurtzel’s book project is about the transformation of urban jurisdiction and space in the context of early modern state formation in the southern Low Countries.
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Ellen Wurtzel Interviewed
June 22, 2017Ellen Wurtzel, associate professor of history, was interviewed for the Royal Studies Journal blog about her article "The Joyous Entry of Albert and Isabella in Lille: History, Conquest and the Making of Belgium” which appeared in a December 2016 issue of the Royal Studies Journal (RSJ) called Taking Possession: Royal Entries in the Early Modern Period. The piece was developed from a paper she delivered at the 2015 Sixteenth-Century Studies annual conference and investigates the way that the city’s history was used to establish loyalty to the prince and envision a new empire in the midst of war and religious conflict.