[University of Mississippi][Department of History][hswatt@olemiss.edu]

Jeffrey R. Watt
                Professor of History

Having received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jeffrey R. Watt joined the University of Mississippi faculty in 1988. Now holding the rank of Professor of History, he teaches lecture courses on the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the age of Absolutism and Enlightenment and has taught seminars on women and the family in medieval and early modern Europe, historiography of European history to 1815, and early modern social history, and witchcraft. He is the author of The Making of Modern Marriage: Matrimonial Control and the Rise of Sentiment in Neuchâtel, 1550-1800 (Cornell University Press, 1992), Choosing Death: Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva (Truman State University Press, 2001), and articles in journals such as the Archive for Reformation History, Church History, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Family History,  and the Sixteenth Century Journal. He has also edited two collections of essays: From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe (Cornell University Press, 2004); and The Long Reformation, a volume in the Problems in European Civilization series (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). Currently Watt is writing a monograph on witchcraft in a seventeenth-century Italian nunnery.

Syllabi for Spring 2008 :

History 101: History of Europe to 1648

History 355: Europe in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1300-1517

Publications

Last updated:  January 14, 2008

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