Susan Amussen is a social and cultural historian of early modern Britain and the Atlantic world, with a focus on the intersections of gender, race and class. She is Distinguished Professor of History and Presidential Endowed Chair in the Humanities at the University of California, Merced. She is the author of An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in early modern England (1988); Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society (2007); and most recently Gender, Culture, and Politics in England, 1560-1640: Turning the World Upside Down (2017). In addition, she has served as President of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender.