Rachel J. Weil

Professor
History, College of Arts and Sciences

Contact Information

434 McGraw Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
e: rjw5@cornell.edu
p: (607) 255-8897
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Rachel J. Weil

Professor
History, College of Arts and Sciences

Expertise

Early modern England; gender history; legal history; history of prisons; early modern Europe

Current Research Interest

Imprisonment in the early modern period

Distinction

Cornell University Society for the Humanities Faculty Fellow

Selected Publications

Weil, Rachel J. A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Weil, Rachel J. Political Passions: Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England 1680-1714. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.

Cornell Research Website Article

Merely Detained or Punished?