Randolph C. Head Associate Professor of History Ph.D. University of Virginia, l992 (951) 827-1875 randolph.head@ucr.edu

• Fields of interest: early modern Europe, Switzerland, and the early modern world.

Randy Head came to Riverside in 1992 with a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and an A.B. in anthropology from Harvard, along with six years of professional theater experience.  His research investigates political ideas and action in Switzerland and Europe around 1600 from various perspectives.  He has published articles on William Tell, on relations between Protestants and Catholics in early modern Switzerland, and on the way early modern states used their archives.  Most recently, he published a biography of Georg Jenatsch, an early seventeenth-century pastor, soldier, and politician who was assassinated in 1639 by a man dressed as a bear (University of Rochester Press, 2008).  He has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and the American Philosophical Society, and has long been involved with the UCDC program in Washington DC.  Professor Head's teaching interests include the history of religious conflict and coexistence since the year 1000, popular politics in early modern Europe, and early modern world history.

Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons: Social Order and Political Language in a Swiss Mountain Canton, 1470-1620

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