Susan Elizabeth Brigden, FRHistS, FBA (born 26 June 1951)[1] is a historian and academic specialising in the English Renaissance and Reformation. She was Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College, before retiring at the end of 2016.[citation needed]
Susan Brigden was educated at the University of Manchester (BA) and Clare College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a PhD in 1979. In 1980, she was elected a Fellow in history at Lincoln College, Oxford. This made her the first female fellow of that college. In 1984, she became a university lecturer in the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.[2] She later became Reader in Early Modern History.[3] At Lincoln College, in addition to her duties as Fellow and tutor, she was the College's Tutor for Women.[4]
Brigden won the Wolfson History Prize in 2013 for her book Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest.[5] In 2014 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[6] She is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[7]