Rate My Professor Jason Coy

Coy's research focuses on early modern Europe, Reformation-era Germany, and European witch-hunts, including the cultural history of magic and witchcraft and the social history of banishment and migration. He is currently investigating the legacy of early modern witch-hunts since 1950, encompassing public memorialization, legal rehabilitation of victims, the emergence of Wicca and neopaganism, and depictions in popular culture, mass media, and social media. His monographs are Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany (Brill, 2008) and The Devil's Art: Divination and Discipline in Early Modern Germany (University of Virginia Press, 2020). He co-edited The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered (Berghahn Books, 2010), Kinship, Community, and Self: Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean (Berghahn Books, 2015), and Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000 (Berghahn Books, 2016). Coy teaches courses such as HIST 270: The European Witch-Hunts, 1450-1750; HIST 336: Renaissance Europe; HIST 337: Reformation Europe; and HIST 441: Witch-Hunting in the Atlantic World. He has collaborated on student research projects, including one funded by a SURF grant examining witchcraft accusations and sleep disorders.