Elizabeth Redmond

Biography

Elizabeth Redmond is a first-year Ph.D. student and recipient of the University Presidential Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. A historian of gender and religion in early modern Britain, she is interested in the formation of religio-political identity in the wake of the Glorious Revolution (1688-89), particularly for women in the nascent Jacobite movement. She has previously written about Mary Beatrice of Modena, the last Catholic queen consort of England and Scotland, and the accumulation of queenly power in the exiled Jacobite court at Saint-Germain-en-Laye from 1689 to 1718.

She graduated with an AB summa cum laude from Kenyon College in 2025, where she was an honors major in History with minors in French and Art History. In 2026, she earned an MSc from the University of Edinburgh, cementing her fascination with Scottish history. Having worked in museums and public history, Elizabeth is passionate about making the complexity of the past accessible to audiences from all backgrounds. Outside of the classroom, she enjoys travel, dancing (especially ballroom and cèilidh), and watching ice hockey.