Lance Pederson

Lance Pederson (he/him/il) is a fourth year PhD student advised by Dr. Craig Koslofsky. Lance grew up in the suburbs of St. Paul, Minnesota, where he obtained his B.A. from Hamline University. Lance’s dissertation research focuses on queerness, masculinity, and gender transgression in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Currently, he is working on his preliminary examinations and an ongoing research project about the Italian Confraternity scandal of 1682. Outside the classroom, he is currently serving as the co-chair of the organizing committee for the 2026 Women's & Gender History Symposium here at the University of Illinois. Starting in the Fall of 2024, he will also be serving as a member of the organizing committee for the 2026 Center for Renaissance Studies Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Newberry Library.