Lauren Noemie Working is an author and academic. She is a lecturer in Early modern literature and a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York.^[1][2]

Working studied at the University of St Andrews and Birkbeck College, University of London. She gained a PhD in Early Modern History at the University of Durham in 2015. Her research has focussed on the engagement of early modern Britain with America and its indigenous populations.^[3] Her academic monograph, The Making of an Imperial Polity, was published by Cambridge University Press, and jointly won the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize in 2021.^[4][5][6]

• A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England (Faber, 2026).
• "James VI and I's Banqueting Houses: A Transatlantic Perspective", British Art Studies, 29 (December 2025). doi:10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-29/lworking
• with Emily Stevenson, "Between Ship and Library: Global Knowledge and Spaces of Exchange at the Middle Temple", Emma Rhatigan and Jackie Watson, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), pp. 263–286.
• "The First General Assembly of Virginia: Deerskin, Ruffs and the View from Tsenacommacah", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 3 (2025). doi:10.1017/S0080440125100200.^[7]
• "Anna of Denmark", in Nandini Das (ed.), Lives in Transit in Early Modern England: Identity and Belonging (Amsterdam University Press, 2022), pp. 47–54. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2fzkpnj.10
• with Nandini Das, João Vicente Melo, and Haig Z. Smith, Blackamoor/Moor, Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England. (Amsterdam, 2021).
• The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge University Press, 2020).^[8][9]
• '"The Savages of Virginia Our Project": The Powhatans in Jacobean Political Thought', Paul Musselwhite (ed.) et al., Virginia 1619: Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America (University of North Carolina, 2019). doi:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651798.003.0003
• "Locating colonization at Jacobean Inns of Court", The Historical Journal, 61:1 (March 2018), pp. 29–51. doi:10.1017/S0018246X16000595

• The Cabinet Unlocked: The Student Salon Project
• Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House: Stephanie Pratt & Lauren Working, History Workshop
• "Counter-Reformation English Women and the Spanish Baroque", TIDE Travel Transculturality, and Identity in England c. 1550–1700
• RHS Whitfield Prize 2021 - Shortlist Videos: Lauren Working
• Lauren Working on Shakespeare's The Tempest
• Illuminating the global in Tudor and early Stuart portraits
• "Cannibals: When England Became Imperial", Lauren Working, 16 December 2019
• Lauren Noemie Working, "Savagery and the State: Incivility and America in Jacobean Political Discourse", University of Durham PhD, 2015
• Lauren Working looks at stories in artifacts, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture