Edmund M. Kern is a historian and scholar specializing in the cultural and social history of early modern Europe, with a particular focus on witchcraft, magic, and popular beliefs. He has been a professor at Eastern Connecticut State University and is the author of "The Culture of Witchcraft in Early Modern England: The Social and Intellectual Context". His work explores how ideas about witchcraft intertwined with politics, religion, and daily life in the 16th and 17th centuries.