Alexandra Shepard

Alexandra Shepard
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
TitleProfessor of Gender History
Spouse
(m. 2001; died 2019)
Children1
AwardsLeo Gershoy Award
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisMeanings of manhood in early modern England: with special reference to Cambridge, c.1560-1640 (1998)
Doctoral advisorKeith Wrightson
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsSt John's College, Oxford
University of Sussex
Christ's College, Cambridge
University of Glasgow
Notable worksAccounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England

Alexandra Jane Shepard FRHistS FBA FRSE is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow. In 2018 Shepard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition for her work in gender history and the social history of early modern Britain. In 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.