Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Valerie Schutte

Academic degrees, honours etc.

Received her Ph.D in History in August 2014 from University of Akron, Ohio, USA. FRHistS.

Profession or occupation

Independent scholar

Grounds for election

Outstanding record of publication on images, books and book-dedications associated with Tudor royal women, especially Mary I and Anne of Cleves. Author of 2 monographs: 'Princesses Mary and Elizabeth Tudor and the Gift Book Exchange', in ARC Humanities Gender and Power in the Premodern World series, April 2021; and 'Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion' in Palgrave Macmillan Queenship and Power series, August 2015. Author of 16 essays, most recently “A 1555 German Gift Book for Queen Mary I,” Journal of the Early Book Society, vol. 28 (2025), 63-81; and “Anne of Cleves and Tudor Court Artists,” in 'Crafting a Legacy: Artists and Female Patronage in Early Modern Europe', ed. Noelia García Pérez, Brepols, 2025. Has also edited or co-edited 7 collections of essays, including: 'Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Re-making of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I', co-edited with J.S. Hower, in Palgrave Macmillan Queenship and Power series, 2023

Signatories

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