Ph.D.
History – University of Virginia
Mueller Hall 126
About
Agnes Howard teaches in the first-year program, the Christian Tradition, and seminars on aspects of modern United States cultural history. Her research centers on American history, with special interest in Puritan New England, women’s monasticism, and the culture of maternity and family life. Although primarily focused on U.S. history, she has taught in Orvieto, Italy, at the Gordon-in-Orvieto program, and is researching women’s religious life in one of the city’s many monasteries. Her book, “Showing: What Pregnancy Tells Us about Being Human” Eerdmans, 2020), examines ideas and practices around birth in the past and present. She recently published Disoriented: Embodied Life in Strange Times (Cascade, 2026). Her writing appears in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, United States Catholic Historian, Commonweal, Christianity Today, and other publications.
