Laura Stokes
Associate Professor of History and, by courtesy, of German Studies
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, History
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Associate Professor (By courtesy), German Studies
Administrative Appointments
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Director of Graduate Teaching, History Department, Stanford University (2014 - 2017)
Program Affiliations
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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Professional Education
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Advanced Studies Diploma, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Fairfax County, VA (1992)
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BA, Reed College, Portland, OR, History (1996)
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MA, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, History (2001)
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PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, History (2006)
2024-25 Courses
- Early Modern Colloquium
HISTORY 330A (Spr) - European Witch Hunts
HISTORY 34A (Aut) - Premodern Economic Cultures
HISTORY 203, HISTORY 303 (Aut) - Research Seminar for Majors
HISTORY 209S (Spr) - The European Witch Hunts
HISTORY 134A (Aut) -
Independent Studies (7)
- Curricular Practical Training
HISTORY 299F (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Directed Reading
HISTORY 399W (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Research
HISTORY 499X (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Research I
HISTORY 299A (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research II
HISTORY 299B (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research III
HISTORY 299C (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing
HISTORY 299S (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2022-23 Courses
- Early Modern Colloquium
HISTORY 330A (Aut) - European Reformations
HISTORY 231G, HISTORY 331G, RELIGST 231, RELIGST 331 (Win) - Global History: The Early Modern World, 1300 to 1800
HISTORY 1B (Win) - Research Seminar for Majors
HISTORY 209S (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Early Modern Colloquium
HISTORY 330A (Aut) - Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Europe
HISTORY 10B (Spr) - Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Europe
HISTORY 110B (Spr) - Transhistory Colloquium
FEMGEN 207D, FEMGEN 307D, HISTORY 207D, HISTORY 307D (Spr) - Why College? Your Education and the Good Life
COLLEGE 101 (Aut)
- Early Modern Colloquium
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Lauren Adams, Joe Amato, Lane Baker, Nathan Lilje, Demetrius Loufas, Courtney MacPhee -
Orals Evaluator
Joe Amato, Amanda Coate, Hannah Johnston, Nathan Lilje, Demetrius Loufas, Merve Tekgurler -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Amanda Coate -
Doctoral (Program)
Amanda Coate, Nathan Deschamps
All Publications
- Towards the Witch Craze The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe Oxford University Press. 2013
- Demons of Urban Reform: Early European Witch Trials and Criminal Justice, 1430-1530 Palgrave Macmillan. 2011
- Prelude: Early witch-hunting in Germany and Switzerland Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 2009; 4 (1): 54-61
- Translation: Johannes Dillinger 'Evil People': A comparative study of witch hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier University of Virginia Press. 2009
- Experiments in Pain: Reason and the Development of Judicial Torture Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany: Essays in Honor of H. C. Erik Midelfort Ashgate. 2009
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The Executioner's Journal: Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City of Nuremberg (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
2018; 90 (3): 721–22
View details for DOI 10.1086/698805
View details for Web of Science ID 000442317500038
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Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland. (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2013; 118 (2): 614-615
View details for Web of Science ID 000317798500163
- Von der Häresie zur Hexerei: "Wirkliche" und imaginare Sekten im Spätmittelalter Speculum 2012; 87 (02): 617 - 619
- The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent (Book Review) The American Historical Review 2011; 45 (2): 547-549
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The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition, and Everyday Life (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY
2010; 40 (3): 444-445
View details for Web of Science ID 000271836100013
- The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village (Book Review) Law and History Review 2010; 28 (2): 531 - 533
- Mit dem Teufel im Bund Epoc. Das Magazin für Archäologie und Geschichte 2010
- Ehegerichtsbarkeit im Bistum Regensburg (1480-1538) The Sixteenth Century Journal 2006; 37 (4): 1092-1094