Ellen Wurtzel

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Ellen Wurtzel

Residency Research Fellow,
Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

1029 Tisch Hall
435 S. State St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Office Location(s): 1521 Haven Hall
ewurtzel@oberlin.edu

  • Fields of Study
    • Medieval and early modern
    • Europe
    • Low Countries
    • Urban
    • Legal
    • State development
    • Gender
  • About

    Ellen Wurtzel is an assistant professor of history at Oberlin College. She completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University in New York. Her research focuses on the transformation of city space and jurisdiction in the early modern period, concentrating on Lille, a Flemish city on the border of France and the Low Countries, between the 14th and 17th centuries. She is currently completing her book manuscript, City Walls and Competing Enclosures: Jurisdiction, Territory, and Power in the Southern Low Countries, 1384-1667.

  • Education
    • Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007
    • M.A., Columbia University, 1998