JASON COY (Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Early Modern Germany) is an Assoicate Professor of History who received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001. Professor Coy is the author of Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany (Studies in Central European Histories series, Thomas Brady and Roger Chickering, eds., Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2008), an examination of criminality and authority in Reformation-era Germany. He also has published recent articles in Sixteenth Century Journal in 2008 and the Journal of Historical Sociology in 2007 . Another article, entitled “Our Diligent Watchers and Informers: Denunciation, False Accusation, and the Limits of Authority in Early Modern Ulm,” is included in Mary Lindemann, ed., Ways of Knowing: Ten Interdisciplinary Essays ( Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2004). Dr. Coy is currently working on a co-edited volume of essays on symbolic performance, communication, and power relations in the Holy Roman Empire during the early modern period. The volume, entitled The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered, features essays selected from the 2007 German Studies Association annual meeting and represents the inaugural volume in a new book series sponsored by the GSA. He has conducted archival research in Germany with a University of California, Berkeley Center for German and European Studies research grant (1997), a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) annual award (1998-1999), and a Maria Sibylla Merian Fellowship for Postdoctoral Studies from the University of Erfurt, Germany (2002). Dr. Coy has begun preliminary research on a future project concerning supernatural beliefs in the Age of Reason, a study that will examine the efforts of scholars and theologians to defend the belief in diabolical magic amid the rising skepticism of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany (Studies in Central European Histories series, Thomas Brady and Roger Chickering, eds., Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2008)

Courses:
Baroque Europe
Italian Renaissance
Reformation Europe
Witchcraft in Europe & America
Renaissance

Dr. Jason P. Coy Associate Professor

Email: coyj@cofc.edu
Department of History
Office: Maybank 215
Phone: 953-8273
Sabbatical fall 2009