College of Liberal Arts

Department of History

Jesse Spohnholz

Assistant Professor of History
Wilson-Short Hall 351 – 509-335-7506
spohnhoj@wsu.edu

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 currently preparing his manuscript, “Strangers and Neighbors: The Tactics of Toleration in an Early Modern German Town.” His articles include “Olympias and Chrysostom: The Debate over Wesel’s Reformed Deaconesses, 1568-1609.” Archive for Reformation History/Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, vol. 98 (2007) and “Multiconfessional Celebration of the Eucharist in Sixteenth-Century Wesel.” Sixteenth Century Journal, forthcoming.

image:spohnholz

Heading using the h3tag

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Department of History, PO Box 644030, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4030 • 509-335-5139 • Contact Us