Elizabeth Hines

Elizabeth Hines is an Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She received a PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 2024.

Elizabeth’s research investigates early modern commerce and war, with a focus on Anglo-Dutch relations and transimperial ventures. Her research has been supported by organizations including the American Historical Association, the Omohundro Institute, and the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, and she has held fellowships at institutions including the New York Public Library, the British Library, and the Huntington Library. Elizabeth’s essay “How to Pawn the Crown Jewels” recently won the Association for Low Countries Studies in Great Britain and Ireland Postgraduate and Early Career Essay Prize and the Society for Court Studies Early Career and Postgraduate Essay Prize. Her work is forthcoming in Diplomatica, The Court Historian, and the Journal of Early Modern History.