Pro-Proctor to the Junior Proctor

Sophie Nicholls is a lecturer at the University of Oxford, and author of Political Thought in The French Wars of Religion (Cambridge 2021). She read Ancient and Modern History as an undergraduate at St Hugh’s College, and from there went on to pursue her interests in Early Modern French history at the University of Cambridge where she did her MPhil and PhD at St John’s College.She returned to Oxford in 2010 as the Carlyle/Clayman Junior Research Fellow in the History of Political Thought, and has continued to work in Oxford since then as a College Lecturer in History. She has published widely on European and British intellectual history and the history of political thought in the Early Modern era, and her next academic project is a translation of Étienne de La Boétie’s On Voluntary Slavery for the Cambridge University Press ‘Blue Series’ (Texts in the History of Political Thought). She teaches British, Irish and European history to undergraduates and graduate students at the University of Oxford and is also now branching out to write a trade book on the history of the French Wars of Religion for Bloomsbury.