Thomas Robisheaux, Professor and Fred W. Schaffer Professor of History

Contact Info:

Office Location:	202 Carr Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-5979, (919) 684-3014
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• HISTORY 89S.04, FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) Synopsis

  TBA, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• HISTORY 257.01, REFORMATION EUROPE Synopsis

  Carr 106, MWF 01:40 PM-02:30 PM

  (also cross-listed as MEDREN 281.01)

Education:

PhD	University of Virginia	1981
AB	Duke University	1974

Specialties:

Medieval and Early Modern History
Politics, Public Life and Governance
Legal History
Cultural History

Research Interests:

As an historian of early modern Europe Dr. Robisheaux has particular interests in social and cultural history, German-speaking Central Europe, Renaissance culture, religious reform, popular religion and culture, and microhistory. Author of The Last Witch of Langenburg and Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany, Lost Worlds, and many articles, he teaches courses on European history; Reformation Europe; Magic, Religion and Science; social and economic history; and religion and society in early modern Europe. He is currently writing a book on the craft of microhistory. He is a member of the Society for Reformation Research and the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. As executive secretary of the Fruehe Neuzeit Interdisziplinaer (Conference Group in Early Modern German Studies) he co-organizes the trienniel conference in early modern studies at Duke University.


Duke Magazine, "A Witch's Brew," July/August 2009

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• James O. Stutler  
• Jennifer L. Welsh  

Postdocs Mentored

• Dr. Markus Friedrich (2003-04)  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Thomas Robisheaux, The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Villages (2009), ISBN 978-0-393-06551-0 [detail.aspx]  [abs] [author's comments]
2. T. Robisheaux, Microhistory and its Ambitions (2009)  [abs]
3. T. Robisheaux, "Penance, Confession, and the Self in Early Modern Lutheranism, in Ideas and Cultural Margins: Essays in Honor of H.C. Erik Midelfort (2009), pp. 117-30, Ashgate Printing, ISBN 9780754665687
4. T. Robisheaux, Living with Witches: Six Interdisciplinary Essays (2009)  [abs]
5. 'The Queen of Evidence:' The Witchcraft Confession in the Age of Confessionalism, in Confessionalization in Europe 1500-1700: Essays in Honor and Memory of Bodo Nischan, edited by John Headley and Hans Hillerbrand (2004), Ashgate