Dr. Charles D. Gunnoe, Provost and Dean of Faculty, Professor of History

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.

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.