Graduate School Team

Professor Naphy received a Bachelor of Arts (Latin) degree from the College of William and Mary in 1982, a Master of Divinity (Historical Theology) degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (1987), where he lectured in Latin (1985-89), and his doctorate (in Reformation History) from the University of St Andrews in 1993.  He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Manchester in 1993 and, in 1996, at Aberdeen where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1999.  He was awarded a personal chair in 2007.  He is the author of six books with translations into five languages as well as numerous edited volumes and articles in scholarly journals (including a French journal on politics and an American biomedical journal).  His monographs are:

• Calvin and the Consolidation of the Genevan Reformation;
• The Black Death; Sex Crimes from Renaissance to Reformation;
• Plagues, Poison and Potions: Plague-Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps, c. 1530-1640;
• Born to Gay: A History of Homosexuality;
• The Protestant Revolution from Martin Luther to Martin Luther King, Jr.;
• Sex Crimes from Renaissance to Enlightenment.

He has made frequent appearances in the media (Channel 4; Grampian TV; BBC-Scotland; BBC-Radio 4: Start the Week) as a specialist on the history of witchcraft, plague, and sexuality.  He is a leading authority on Calvin's Geneva during the sixteenth century as well as the history of crime and punishment in the early modern period.  Professor Naphy is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the American Historical Association, the American Catholic Association and the Sixteenth Century Studies Society among other learned bodies.  He has been the Director of Graduate School for the College of Arts and Social Sciences since October 2008.

Katrina completed her undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, graduating with First Class honours in 2006. She then took a year out to work in the Oil and Gas industry, fully intending to return and commence a 1+3 programme with the School of Social Science, but was promoted during that time and decided to remain in the world of administration rather than returning to academia. Katrina joined the University of Aberdeen in January 2008 as Assistant College Registrar (Research) and was promoted to Deputy College Registrar in April 2009.