Marjorie McIntosh

Marjorie Keniston McIntosh was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 15 November 1940. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1962 with a B.A. degree magna cum laude in European history. The following year she received a M.A. in English history from Harvard University. McIntosh studied at the Institute of Historical Research in London, England, in 1965–66 and was awarded her Ph.D. in Tudor/Stuart history by Harvard in 1967. She is married with two sons and a daughter. She was appointed an assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado in 1979, promoted to associate professor seven years later, and to full professor in 1992. McIntosh received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995. She founded the Center for British Studies at Colorado and served as its first executive director. She has published four books: Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering, 1200–1500, A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500–1620, Order, Control, and Regulation of Behavior in English Communities, 1350–1600, and Local Responses to the Poor in England, 1350–1600.[1]

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