Dr. Allison Brown

Dr. Allison Brown received her Ph.D. in Religion in the Historical Studies Area from Baylor University, an M.A. in History of Christianity from Wheaton College (IL), and a B.A. in History and Political Science from Oklahoma State University. 

Dr. Brown’s research focuses on how Protestants in the early modern era critiqued tyranny and formulated justifications for legitimate resistance. She explores how English and French Protestants used gendered understandings of the political realm as a lens through which to interpret, communicate, and apply biblical narratives on tyranny and resistance to their own sixteenth century context. She has published chapters on early modern political thought in The Old Testament, Calvin, and the Reformed Tradition (Brill, 2024) and The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation (Oxford, 2024). She also served as co-editor, alongside Beth Allison Barr, Katherine Goodwin Lindgren, and David M. Whitford, of a special issue of Church History and Religious Culture, “Regendering the Narrative: Women in the History of Christianity” (Dec. 2023). Dr. Brown is also interested in the printing and reception of the biblical text in the early modern era and participated in an NEH Summer Seminar in 2022, “Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450–1650” at Ohio State University.