My chief research interests lie in early modern central Europe, especially in the religious and political history of Southwestern Germany in the late sixteenth century. I am also interested in early modern science, in particular the reception of the ideas of Paracelsus, the great Swiss-German medical iconoclast. I have also engaged in scholarship on witch-hunting in the period, especially regarding the demonological ideas that made this tragedy possible. I am currently wrapping up a book entitled Thomas Erastus and the Palatinate: A Renaissance Physician in the Second Reformation.

In addition to offering surveys of world history, I teach intermediate level of European history courses. I offer advanced courses in German history and a seminar in the history of witchcraft.

Williams, Gerhard Scholz and Charles D. Gunnoe Jr. eds., Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, no. 64. Kirksville , MO : Truman State University Press, 2002.

Bierma, Lyle D. with Charles D. Gunnoe Jr., Karin Y. Maag and Paul W. Fields, An Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism: Sources, History, and Theology. Studies and Texts in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought, ed. Richard A. Muller. Grand Rapids : Baker, September, 2005.

Contributer to: Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth and Robin Barnes. Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany: Essays in Honor of H.C. Erik Midelfort. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2009.