Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor, History
  • Associate Professor (By courtesy), German Studies

Administrative Appointments

  • Director of Graduate Teaching, History Department, Stanford University (2014 - 2017)

Program Affiliations

  • Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Professional Education

  • Advanced Studies Diploma, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Fairfax County, VA (1992)
  • BA, Reed College, Portland, OR, History (1996)
  • MA, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, History (2001)
  • PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, History (2006)

Contact

  • Academic
    lpstokes@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: History Department Position: Assoc Professor
    • 450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 200
    • Stanford,  California  94305-2024 

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 2024

Links

2023-24 Courses

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

  • Towards the Witch Craze The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe Stokes, L. Oxford University Press. 2013
  • Demons of Urban Reform: Early European Witch Trials and Criminal Justice, 1430-1530 Stokes, L. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011
  • Prelude: Early witch-hunting in Germany and Switzerland Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft Stokes, L. 2009; 4 (1): 54-61
  • Translation: Johannes Dillinger 'Evil People': A comparative study of witch hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier Stokes, L. 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 Stokes, L. Ashgate. 2009
  • The Executioner's Journal: Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City of Nuremberg (Book Review) JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Stokes, L. 2018; 90 (3): 721–22

    View details for DOI 10.1086/698805

    View details for Web of Science ID 000442317500038

  • Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland. (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Stokes, L. 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 Stokes, L. 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 Stokes, L. 2011; 45 (2): 547-549
  • The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition, and Everyday Life (Book Review) JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Stokes, L. 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 Stokes, L. 2010; 28 (2): 531 - 533
  • Mit dem Teufel im Bund Epoc. Das Magazin für Archäologie und Geschichte Stokes, L. 2010
  • Ehegerichtsbarkeit im Bistum Regensburg (1480-1538) The Sixteenth Century Journal Stokes, L. 2006; 37 (4): 1092-1094