Faculty and Staff

Caroline M. Hibbard

Department of History
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 244-2588
email: hibbardc@illinois.edu

Education

B.A. with Special Honors in History, Wellesley College, 1964
B.A.(Hons)in Modern History, Oxford University, 1966
M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University, 1969, 1975

Academic Employment

1972-73, Sessional lecturer in history, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
1973-75, Lecturer in history, University of Illinois at Urbana
1975- Assistant to Associate Professor of History
1997-2000, Associate Chair of History Department & Director of Graduate Studies

Publications

"Early Stuart Catholicism: Revisions and Re-Revisions," Journal of Modern History 52 (March 1980), pp. 1-34. (Berkshire Conference Article Prize)
Charles I and the Popish Plot, Chapel Hill, U. of North Carolina Press, 1983, xii + 342 pp.
"The Contribution of 1639: Court and Country Catholicism," Recusant History 16 (May 1982), pp. 42-60.
"The Clergy Contribution to the First Bishops' War of 1639: Episcopal Warriors in England's Wars of Religion," in War and Government in Britain, 1598-1650, ed. M. C. Fissel, St. Martins/ Manchester,1991, pp. 164-92.
"The Role of a Queen Consort: the Household and Court of Henrietta Maria, 1625-42" in The Court at the Beginning of the Modern Age, ed. R. Asch for German Historical Institute of London, Oxford, 1991, pp. 393-414.
"The Theatre of Dynasty," in The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture, ed. R. Malcolm Smuts (Cambridge U.P., 1996), pp. 156-176.
“Godparenting at the Early Stuart Court,” in Le second ordre: l’ideal nobiliaire. Hommage a Ellery Schalk, ed. Grell and Ramiere de Fortanier, Paris, PUP-Sorbonne, 1999, pp. 207-216.
“Translating Royalty: Henrietta Maria and the Transition from Princess to Queen,” Court Historian, V:1 (May 2000), pp. 15-28.
“Henrietta Maria”, 14,000-word article for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Sept.,         2004).
“Henrietta Maria in the 1630s: perspectives on the role of consort queens in Ancien Regime courts”, in The 1630s: Interdisciplinary essays on culture and politics in the Caroline Era, ed. Ian Atherton and Julie Sanders (Manchester U.P., 2006)

Current Research

Study of the early Stuart court, especially the court and household of Henrietta Maria, 1625-42.

Conference Organization

conference April 4-7, 1990 at University of Illinois “One Imperial Crown: the Multple Kingdoms of 17th Century Britain,” sponsored by LAS State-of-the-Art Conference Fund

Selected papers 1997 to present

"Soldiers of Christ: Capuchin Missionaries in Stuart London," Oxford Reformation Studies Colloquium, June 1997
"Revisionism Re-visited: Directions for Post-Reformation English Catholic History," University College London, June 1997
"The Politics of Honour at the Early Stuart Court," Court History Society annual conference, Windsor Castle, April 1998
"Translating Royalty: Henrietta Maria and the Transition from Princess to Queen," Court History Society Conference “The Role of the Consort,” London, September, 1999.
“La Belle Mere: Marie de Medici and the Study of Royal Women at Court,” Newberry Seminar in Courts, Households, and Lineages, Chicago, April 2001
“Henrietta Maria’s Somerset House Chapel and the Topography of London Catholicism,” for Court History Society Conference on Somerset House, London, September 2001
“Reconstructing a Relationship: the Queen, the King and the 1630s,” Plenary lecture for interdisciplinary conference on England in the 1630s, Keele University, England, May 2002
“Was Henrietta Maria French?”, for conference “Catholic Culture in Early Modern England,” Newberry Library Renaissance Center, Chicago, October 2002
“Henrietta Maria as patron of the arts, 1625-1640: French patterns and French persons,”    North American Conference on British Studies, Baltimore, November 2002
“Consort Queens and the Study of Early Modern Courts,”  invited lecture at McMaster University,             Hamilton, Ontario,  October 27, 2004
"Music at the Court of Henrietta Maria and Charles I (1625-42),”  Sixteenth Cy.Studies Conference, Toronto, October 30, 2004

Selected Post-doctoral Fellowships and Awards

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships, Vatican Film Library, St. Louis U. 1977, 1984
Berkshire Conference article prize for 1980
NEH Senior Scholar in Residence, Newberry Library 1988-89
Newberry Library/British Academy Fellowship, Summer 1990
Fellow, Royal Historical Society 1990
UI History Department Queen Teaching Prize, 1993

Professional Societies Service

A H A: Gershoy Prize Committee 1999-2001
North American Conference on British Studies:
Executive Council 1984-89;  Dissertation Research Fellowship Comm., 1986-87 (Chair); Snow Book Prize Committee 1984, 1985-7; National Program Committee 1992-95; National Nominating Committee, 1981-83 (Chair, 1982-3), 1998-2000
American Catholic Historical Association:  Executive Council, 1982-85
H-Albion Editorial Board, 1999-