Jesse Spohnholz
Assistant Professor of History
Wilson-Short Hall 351 – 509-335-7506
spohnhoj@wsu.edua
Education
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2004
Academic & Professional Interests
Spohnholz teaches courses in early modern European social, cultural, and religious history, 1450–1750. He teaches courses on Europe during the period of the Renaissance and Reformation and specializes in the history of Germany and the Low Countries, as well as the topics of religion, family, and gender in early modern Europe. His research is on the social practices of toleration in Reformation-era Germany and the Netherlands.
Honors & Awards
Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, German Historical Institute, 2005
Publications
Spohnholz is the author of The Tactics of Toleration: A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious Wars (University of Delaware Press, forthcoming). His articles include "Multiconfessional Celebration of the Eucharist in Sixteenth-Century Wesel," Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 39, no. 3 (2008) and "Olympias and Chrysostom: The Debate over Wesel's Reformed Deaconesses, 1568–1609," Archive for Reformation History/Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, vol. 98 (2007).