Department of History

Personal Statement:

My dissertation is titled “The Demonological Republic of Letters: Judges, Lawyers, Elites, and Demonologists in Early Modern Europe”. 

I study the history of witchcraft, demonic possession, magic, and ghosts in the early modern world. 

Specifically, my dissertation examines demonologists from France, Franche-Comté, Scotland, and French Martinique. 

Dissertation Title:

"The Demonological Republic of Letters: Judges, Lawyers, Elites, and Demonologists in Early Modern Europe"

Teaching Fields:

-Early modern Europe

-witchcraft, magic, ghosts, the supernatural

-crime and punishment, torture

-Early modern European legal culture

-French Wars of Religion

-The Reformation

Awards & Professional Activities:

Fulbright Scholar, France, 2021-2022

The Borchard Fellowship, 2019, 2021