David Randall's Secret Identity

I have received a Ph.D. in early modern British history (1500-1800) from Rutgers University.

Dissertation Topic: Sovereign Intelligence and Sovereign Intelligencers: Transforming Standards of Credibility in English Military
News from ca. 1570 to 1637

Teaching and Research Fields: Early Modern Europe (major), Modern Europe (minor), specializing in British history, cultural history, military
history, and religious history

Publications

Credibility in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Military News, forthcoming (Pickering & Chatto).

editor, English Military News Pamphlets, 1513-1637, forthcoming (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)

“Ethos, Poetics, and the Literary Public Sphere,” Modern Language Quarterly 69, 2 (forthcoming June 2008). “Epistolary rhetoric, the newspaper, and the public sphere,” Past and Present (forthcoming 2008).

"Joseph Mead, Novellante: News, Sociability, and Credibility in Early Stuart England," The Journal of British Studies 45, 2 (April 2006), pp. 293-312.

"Providence, Fortune, and the Experience of Combat: English Printed Battlefield Reports, circa 1570--1637," The Sixteenth Century Journal 35, 4 (Winter 2004), pp. 1053-77.

"Recent Studies in Print Culture: News, Propaganda, and Ephemera," book review, Huntington Library Quarterly 67, 3 (2004), pp. 457-72.

"Providence," in Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004).

"Puritanism," in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004).