Alexandra Jane Shepard FRHistS FBA FRSE[1] is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow.
[7] She is Co-Investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project ‘Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice: Britain and Ireland, c.1100-c.1750’,[4] which explores women's access to justice across Britain and Ireland between the 12th and 18th centuries.
[8] Shepard also leads a Leverhulme International Network Grant on “Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe",[4] awarded in 2015.
[14] The book, a culmination of a decade of work, examines how ordinary people valued themselves and understood social order and self-esteem, using innovative methods of historiography.
[16] In 2004, whilst at Christ's College, Cambridge, Shepard was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.