Brian W. Ogilvie
Professor of History | Interim Chair of Judaic & Near Eastern Studies
Professor Brian Ogilvie studied at the University of Chicago, where he received his B.A. (1990), M.A. (1992), and Ph.D. (1997), as well as at Cambridge University, where he was a member of Trinity College.
He is currently working on two book projects: Nature's Bible: Insects in European Art, Science, and Religion from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and a cultural history of butterflies. He was involved in a Leverhulme Trust International Research Network on the scientific career of Francis Willughby, FRS (1635-1672). He has published several articles and chapters on early modern science and historiography, and, with Bridget Marshall, on a case of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Hadley, Massachusetts, the town where he lives. His broader scholarly interests include the history of scholarship, witchcraft belief and persecution, and the history of religion.