James Rosenheim is a student of early modern
British social and cultural history and author of two books on
English landed society: The Townshends of Raynham and
The Emergence of a Ruling Order. His current research
focuses on the social and cultural status of the unmarried man
in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Since 1998 he has directed what is now the
Melbern G.
Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.