James Rosenheim is a student of early modern British social and cultural history and author of two books on English landed society: The Townshends of Raynham and The Emergence of a Ruling Order . His current research focuses on the social and cultural status of the unmarried man in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He served as director of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research from 1998 to 2011.