Thomas Robisheaux
| Title: | Professor and Acting Chair |
| Office Location: | 202 Carr Building |
| Office Phone: | (919) 684-5979, (919) 684-3014 |
| 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.
Duke Magazine, "A Witch's Brew," July/August 2009
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)
- HISTORY 147.01, MAGIC/REL/SCI SINCE 1400
Synopsis
- White 107, MWF 01:30 PM-02:20 PM
Recent Publications
Books in Progress- T. Robisheaux, Microhistory (2009). [abs]
- T. Robisheaux, The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village (W.W. Norton, 2009).
- T. Robisheaux, Interdisciplinary Essays on Witchcraft (2009). [abs]
- T. Robisheaux. ""Penance, Confession, and the Self in Early Modern Lutheranism," in Ideas and Cultural Margins: Essays in Honor of H.C. Erik Midelfort, Aldershot, Hambleton." (2009).
- "'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).