Thomas Robisheaux
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office Location: | 202 Carr Bldg |
| Office Phone: | (919) 684-5979 |
| Email Address: | trobish@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD University of Virginia, 1981
- AB Duke University, 1974
Research Interests
Dr. Robisheaux is an early modern European historian with particular interests in social and cultural history, German-speaking Central Europe, the Renaissance, and Reformation. Author of Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany, Lost Worlds, and many articles, he teaches an introduction to European history; Reformation Europe; Magic, Religion and Science since the Renaissance; and the social and economic history of Europe. He is currently working on witchcraft. He is a member of the Society for Reformation Research, the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, and serves as a North American contributing editor to the Archive for Reformation History.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Howard D. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Award, Duke University, April, 2006
- National Faculty Member of the Year, Association for Graduate Liberal Studies, November, 2003
Postdocs Mentored
- Dr. Markus Friedrich (2003-04)
Recent Publications
Books in Progress- T. Robisheaux, The Miller's Wife: Sorcry and Witchcraft in a German Village (W.W. Norton & co., 2006). Tentative publication date: Spring 2008. [Office, PDF]
- T. Robisheaux, Microhistory (2005). [abs]
- T. Robisheaux, Interdisciplinary Essays on Witchcraft (2005). [abs]
- "'The Queen of Evidence:' The Witchcraft Confession in the Age of Confessionalism." Confessionalization in Europe 1500-1700: Essays in Honor and Memory of Bodo Nischan (2004).
- "The German Peasants' War." Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World (2004).