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

• Reformation, colonisation, and the conversion of the “heathen”: theology, history, and nature in the writings of John Oxenbridge (1608–1674)
  McGhee, P. S. (2025). Reformation, colonisation, and the conversion of the “heathen”: theology, history, and nature in the writings of John Oxenbridge (1608–1674). Atlantic Studies, 22(1), 2-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2024.2393037
• “Doubtfull beginnings”: Confronting Heterodoxy in Early Colonial Virginia, c.1607–1624
  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
• Introduction: Globalizing Protestantisms
  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
• “I Shall Give Thee the Heathen for Thine Inheritance”
  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
• Unbelief, the Senses and the Body in Nicholas Bownde'sThe vnbeleefe of S. Thomas(1608)
  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