Philip Mogen

I am a lecturer in the history department at Rice University. Previously, I managed online programming at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.

I received my PhD from the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania in December 2021. My work is primarily focused on the society and culture of the seventeenth-century British Isles. More broadly, I study the history of early modern Europe, as well as the history of technology and communication in the early modern period.

My dissertation, “Uncertain Presents, Unstable Pasts: Rethinking History during the British Civil Wars, 1638 – 1660,” explores the way political and religious upheaval and the rise of new media affected perceptions of the past in the British Isles and English Atlantic during the mid-seventeenth century.

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Contact Info: philip.mogen@rice.edu