Frances Timbers holds a PhD in British history from the University of Toronto (2008). She has a long-standing relationship with Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, where she is a sessional lecturer. Her dissertation research was published asMagic and Masculinity: Ritual Magic and Gender in the Early Modern Era(I. B. Taurus, 2014). An essay entitled Mary Squires: A Case Study in Constructing Gypsy Identity in Eighteenth-Century England was included inWorth and Repute: Valuing Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2011). Timbers also has two peer-reviewed articles: Witches Sect or Prayer Meeting? Matthew Hopkins Revisited inWomens History Review(2008), and Liminal Language: Boundaries of Magic and Honor in Early Modern Essex inMagic, Ritual, and Witchcraft(2007). Timbers current research examines English gypsies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with the help of a two-year postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Her book The Damned Fraternitie: Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 15001700 is forthcoming from Ashgate in early 2016.