Spencer Weinreich
Biography
Spence Weinreich is Assistant Professor of History, specializing in the social and religious history of early modern Europe, with particular interests in the prison, the Reformation, and food and hunger.
His first book, Solitary Confinement: The History of an Experiment, will be published in 2027 by Harvard University Press, and he is at work on a second book, tentatively entitled Chosen Hunger in Early Modern Europe. Other current projects examine the importance of craft knowledge to the Reformation, prisoners’ work as historians, and the social history of the North of Ireland.
Spence’s work has appeared in Journal of the History of Ideas, Renaissance Quarterly, History Workshop Journal, Church History, Journal of Social History, and Huntington Library Quarterly, among other fora, and has been recognized by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Central European History Society.
A former Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows and Lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University, Spence also serves as a historical consultant to the Sing Sing Prison Museum in Ossining, New York, and as a series editor for the Routledge Studies in Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism.
