Jeffrey Collins 

Associate Professor

Early Modern Britain
Intellectual History/History of Political Thought
History of Religion

E-mail: collinsj@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-6000, ext: 74357
Fax: 613-533-6298
Office: Watson Hall, Room 205

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Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1999
B.A., Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 1992  

About

Jeffrey R. Collins is an Assistant Professor of History at Queen's. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999 and served, for three years, as a Harper Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. He has published articles in Historical Journal, History, and Church History. His first book, The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes, has recently been published by Oxford University Press. His research interests include: liberalism and republicanism, state-formation, early modern religion, and the political history of Britain. 

Courses Taught

History 242: Rise of the British Empire
History 287: England Under the Tudors and Stuarts
History 329: Intellectual History of Early Modern Europe
History 418: The English Revolution

Major Publications

The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes, Oxford University Press, published October 2005.

"Thomas Hobbes and the Blackloist Conspiracy of 1649." Historical Journal 45, n. 2 (2002).
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=109633

"The Church Settlement of Oliver Cromwell." History 87, n. 285 (2002).
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/hist/2002/00000087/00000285/art00212

"Christian Ecclesiology and the Composition of Leviathan: a Newly Discovered Letter to Thomas Hobbes." Historical Journal 43, n. 1 (2000).
http://www.journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5597

"The Restoration Bishops and the Royal Supremacy" Church History 68, n. 3 (1999).