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Contact Information

History
309 Gregory Hall
810 S Wright
M/C 466
Urbana, IL 61801

Professor

Research Interests

early modern Europe
history of everyday life
the early modern world, 1400-1800

Research Description

My current research focuses on human skin in the early modern era.

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, History
Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures

Recent Publications

Koslofsky, C., & Seneviratne, S. K. (2024). Mbius skin dermal history in the early modern age. In Shakespeare / Skin: Contemporary Readings in Skin Studies and Theoretical Discourse (pp. 11-42). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..

Koslofsky, C. (2021). Offshoring the invisible world? American ghosts, witches, and demons in the early enlightenment. Critical Research on Religion, 9(2), 126-141. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050303220986971

Koslofsky, C. (2021). Slavery and skin: The native Americans Ocktscha Rinscha and Tuski Stannaki in the Holy Roman Empire, 1722-1734. In Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650-1850 (pp. 81-108). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748833-004

Koslofsky, C. M., & Zaugg, R. (Eds.) (2020). A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger. (Studies in Early Modern German History). University of Virginia Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1bhg23c

Koslofsky, C. (2019). Debating the Reformation in Torgau, 1522. In U. Lotz-Heumann (Ed.), A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between (pp. 255-257). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351243292-74

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