Carolyn Harris 

Ph.D. Candidate/Teaching Fellow

Email: carolyn.harris@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-2150
Fax: 613-533-6298

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About

Carolyn Harris is a doctoral candidate in history at Queen's University. Her dissertation focuses on Queen Henrietta Maria of England and Scotland and Queen Marie Antoinette of France, discussing how these figures conceived their own roles as wife, mother and head of royal households and how they informed popular discourse during the English Civil Wars and French Revolution. Carolyn attended Birkbeck College, University of London from January-July, 2009 as a Visiting Overseas Research Student. During the 2011-2012 academic year, Carolyn will be teaching HIST 321 ­ the Society and Culture of Early Modern Europe. Carolyn is an expert in the history of European monarchy and has been interviewed by numerous media outlets including CNN, BBC Radio 5, CBC syndicated radio, Radio Canada International, TVO's "The Agenda," The Toronto Star, the National Post and the Globe and Mail. Her writing concerning the historical context for issues facing the British monarchy today has appeared in the Globe and Mail and Kingston Whig-Standard.

To see more information about the Royals see Carolyn's website: www.royalhistorian.com

Selected Conference Presentations

November 11, 2011      
"Motherhood and Marie Antoinette" at the Western  Society for French History Conference (WSFH) in Portland, Oregon.

November 20, 2011     
"The reputation of Dowager Queen Henrietta Maria and the case for Hereditary Legitimacy at Charles II's Court" at the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) in Denver, Colorado.

April 28, 2009 
"Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette: Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe" at the Research Student Workshop at Birkbeck College, University of London.

January 10, 2009
 "I hope now there will be a good understanding amongst us all," Conflict and Correspondence between Henrietta Maria and her children 1644-1669 at Revolution and Restoration: Change and Continuity in the British Isles c.1640-1670, at Selwyn College, Cambridge University.