Nicholas Popper

is the Gale and Steven Kohlhagen Term Distinguished Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary and the Book Review Editor of the William and Mary Quarterly. This year he holds a Folger NEH Long-Term Fellowship and is writing his second book, provisionally entitled The Specter of the Archive: Paper and Political Practice in Early Modern Britain. His first book, Walter Raleigh's History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance, was published in 2012.