William (Will) Fiedler

I am a PhD student in the Division for Late Medieval & Reformation Studies focusing on religious women (nuns and lay women), religious co-existence, and reform movements during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in central and southeastern Germany. I am interested in researching the varied reactions of monastic women to the various Reform movements - Catholic and Protestant - that swept across central Europe in the Reformation era. I received my Masters degree from Washington State University in 2026, where I focused on religious women leading early Christian minority groups in defense of their religious group and calling for an extremely localized religious co-existence during the early years of the Reformation (1520s) in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg and the Duchy of Bavaria. I also hold a Bachelor's degree in History from Michigan Technological University (2022).