Contact:
Jason P. Coy, Associate Professor
Email: coyj@cofc.edu
Department of History
Office: Maybank 215
Phone: 953-8273

Focus on Faculty2008

Curriculum Vitae

JASON COY
(Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Early Modern Germany, History of European Witchcraft and Superstition) is an AssociateProfessor 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 47, 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 (Boston, 2004). A forthcoming article, entitled “Magistrates, Beggars, and Laborers: Migration and Regulation in Sixteenth-Century Ulm,” will appear in Bert De Munck and Anne Winters, eds., Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities, the proceedings of an international conference in Brussels in 2009.

Dr. Coy is currently finishing 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, will be the inaugural volume in a new book series sponsored by the German Studies Association.

He has also begun working on a future project concerning divination and demonology in early modern Germany. The study will examine learned astrological beliefs, popular divinatory practices, and theological condemnations of divination, condemnations rooted in biblical and classical proscriptions, notions of the demonic, and belief in divine providence.

Dr. Coy has conducted archival research with the support of a University of California, Berkeley Center for German and European Studies research grant (1997), a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) annual research grant (1998-1999), a Maria Sibylla Merian Fellowship for Postdoctoral Studies from the University of Erfurt, Germany (2002), a Dorothy and O.J. Small Faculty Development Grant from the College of Charleston School of Humanities and Social Sciences (2008), and an Eleanore and Harold Jantz Fellowship from the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library (2009). In 2007 he was awarded the Excel Outstanding Faculty Award for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston. He is currently serving a two-year term on the program committee of the German Studies Association.

Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany, Brill Academic Press, 2008

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

Courses:

Fall 2009:
Sabbatical

Spring 2010:
HIST 101.001, 101.103
MWF 9-9:5,; 10-10:50

FYSM 138
MW 2-3:15
MYBK 107