Natalie Donnell is a historian specializing in Early Modern Europe. Her research focuses primarily on the intersection of gender, politics, and power, through women’s networks and epistolary communities.

She received her PhD in History from Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) in 2024, and was awarded Distinction for the defense of her dissertation Noblewomen’s Political Networks across the European Wars of Religion (1559-1633).

She has published academic research with NursingClio and The Sixteenth Century Journal and has presented her research at historical conferences across Europe and North America.

As a public historian, her Substack Feminist Histories produces monthly deep-dives into the stories of women wielding power in Early Modern Europe.

She is passionate about in-depth historical research and connecting the broader public to a profound appreciation for the past. She is currently developing a manuscript for her first trade publication, a nonfiction history of women in politics during the French Renaissance.