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Tyler Hengst

Graduate Student
Fields/Specialties
Dutch Republic
Early Modern Europe
Reformation
Social History
Music

Education

B.A., History & Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2023)

M.A., History, University of Virginia (2025)

Biography

I am a third-year PhD student studying early modern Dutch social history. I am interested in the relationship between religion, politics, globalization, and popular culture seen primarily through printed music. My master's thesis, Singing Luther's 'Ein Feste Burg' in the Early Dutch Revolt, explores cross-confessional culture through Luther's famous hymn printed in late sixteenth-century Dutch songbooks. My current research focuses on representations of globalization in seventeenth-century maritime music.

Courses Taught

HIEU 2071, Early Modern Europe and the World (Dr. Erin Lambert, Fall 2024)

HIEU 3141, Age of Conquests: Britain from the Romans to the Normans, 43-1066 (Dr. Paul Kershaw, Spring 2025)