Email: sbeam@uvic.ca | Office: Clearihue B205 | Phone: 250-721-7406

Social and cultural history of early modern Europe, with a particular focus on sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century France.

Born and raised in Toronto, Dr. Beam has since lived in Switzerland, France, India, Japan and the United States. Along the way, she graduated with a B.A. from McGill University in 1990 and a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. She began teaching at the University of Victoria in 2002.

Books

Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007 (bibliography: html , pdf , rtf)
Winner of the 2008 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for History/Theology awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society.

Articles

"Les notables catholiques et la marginalisation de la culture populaire au XVI^e siècle," Histoire Urbaine 25 (2009): 105-25

"La satire politique dans le théâtre de la Basoche," in La Satire dans tous ses états: Le "meslange satyricque" à la Renaissance française, ed. Bernd Renner (Geneva: Droz, 2009), 161-81.