Staff profile

In my research and teaching, I explore the relationship between atheism, theology, medicine, and science in the early modern world. My current project is entitled, 'The Anatomy of Atheism in the Atlantic World, c. 1600-1800'. I am also preparing a monograph, based upon my doctoral thesis, focusing on the Protestant concept of the ‘heathen’ in early modern Britain and the Americas.

Journal Article

• McGhee, P. S. (online). Reformation, colonisation, and the conversion of the “heathen”: theology, history, and nature in the writings of John Oxenbridge (1608–1674). Atlantic Studies, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2024.2393037
• McGhee, P. S. (2024). “Doubtfull beginnings”: Confronting Heterodoxy in Early Colonial Virginia, c.1607–1624. Journal of Early Modern History: Contacts, Comparisons, Contrasts, 28(1-2), 65-91. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700658-bja10077
• McGhee, P. S., & Hill, K. (2024). Introduction: Globalizing Protestantisms. Journal of Early Modern History: Contacts, Comparisons, Contrasts, 28(1-2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700658-bja10065
• McGhee, P. S. (2022). “I Shall Give Thee the Heathen for Thine Inheritance”. Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context, 51(3), 215-244. https://doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-bja10003
• McGhee, P. S. (2016). Unbelief, the Senses and the Body in Nicholas Bownde'sThe vnbeleefe of S. Thomas(1608). Studies in Church History, 52, https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2015.15