Dr. Mogen studies the society and culture of the seventeenth-century British Isles. More broadly, his work focuses on the history of early modern Europe, as well as the history of technology and communication in the early modern period. He received his PhD from the History Department at
the University of Pennsylvania in December 2021.

He is currently working on several projects building off his dissertation, Uncertain Presents, Unstable Pasts: Rethinking History during the British Civil Wars, 1638 – 1660. These explore the way political and religious upheaval and the rise of new media affected perceptions of the past in the British Isles and English Atlantic during the mid-seventeenth century.

Prior to joining Rice, Dr. Mogen managed programming at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.

Publications

“Accounting for Life: Letterbooks, Letters, and the Life of Alexander Wilson,” EAS Miscellany
(March 2022)

“The Scottish-Chesapeake Tobacco Trade and the Economics of Book Importation,” Early
American Studies, 20.1 (Winter 2022), 78-112