Christine Kooi
Associate Professor


231B Himes Hall
578-4499
ckooi1@lsu.edu

COURSES TAUGHT:   Western Civilization to 1500, The Renaissance, The Age of Reformation, The Dutch Republic and Empire, 1500-1800, Women in the Renaissance and Reformation
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:   "Heretics and Idolaters: Calvinists and Catholics in Holland's Golden Age, 1572-1672"
INTERESTED IN DIRECTING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON:   The Reformation, Early Modern Netherlands

BRIEF VITA

Education:
B.A. summa cum laude, The College of Saint Rose (1987); M.A., Ph.D., Yale University  (1993)

Awards and Honors:
LSU Council on Summer Research Grants (1995, 1998)
Editorial Board,
Sixteenth Century Journal
Carl Meyer Prize
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference 1993
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Resident Fellow 2003

Louisiana Board of Regents ATLAS Grant, 2007-2008

Notable Articles:  

"Popish Impudence: The Perseverance of the Catholic Faithful in Calvinist Holland, 1572-1620," Sixteenth Century Journal 26 (1995): 75-85

"Pharisees and Hypocrites: A Public Debate over Church Discipline in Leiden, 1586," Archive for Reformation History 88 (1997): 258-278

"Converts and Apostates: The Competition for Souls in Early Modern Holland," Archive for Reformation History 92 (2001): 195-214

"Sub jugo haereticorum: Minority Catholicism in Early Modern Europe," in Early Modern Catholicism (Toronto, 2001)

"Paying Off the Sheriff: Strategies of Catholic Toleration in Golden Age Holland," in Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002)

“Conversion in a Multiconfessional Society: The Dutch Republic,” in: Konversion und Konfession in der Frühen Neuzeit, eds. Ute-Lotz Heumann et al. (Gütersloher Verlaghaus, 2007), pp. 271-285

“The Netherlands,” in Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research, ed. David M. Whitford (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2007), pp. 273-289

 

About  Liberty and Religion  

Books:  

Liberty and Religion: Church and State in Leiden's Reformation 1572-1620 (Brill, 2000)