Kathy Stuart
Kathy Stuart
Associate Professor

E: kestuart@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-3656
O: 3226 SSH
Research Interests
Deviance, marginality and crime in Early Modern Germany; social and cultural history of Early Modern Germany; gender history; urban history


Selected Publications

“Pozornaia shuba, ili Neprednamerennye effekty sotsial’nogo distsiplinirovaniia,” in M. M. Krom, G. Al’gazi, D. Sabean, eds. Istoriia i antropologiia: Mezhdistsiplinarnye issledovaniia poslednikh let. St. Petersburg: Aletheia, 2007. (Russian Translation of Chapter 5, Defiled Trades)

Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Winner Hans Rosenberg Biennial Book Prize, 2001. German translation: Der Anrüchige Pelzrock: Ehre und Befleckung in der frühen Neuzeit am Beispiel Augsburgs. (Wissner Verlag, February 2008.

"Dishonore, Contaminazione e guistizia criminale ad Augusta nella prima eta moderna,” Quaderni Storici, 99 (1998), 677-706.

“Des Scharfrichters heilende Hand - Medizin und Ehre in der frühen Neuzeit,” in: Das Konzept der Ehre in der frühen Neuzeit, eds., Sibylle Backmann, Hans-Jörg Künast, B. Ann Tlusty, and Sabine Ullmann (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1998)

Forthcoming: “Suicide by Proxy: The Unintended Consequences of Public Executions in Eighteenth-Century Germany,” Central European History. Volume 41, Number 3, September 2008.



Courses Taught
Lecture Classes: European History during the Renaissance and Reformation (131B); The Old Regime: Absolutism, Enlightenment and Revolution (131C); Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe (132).

Seminars: Satan or a Disordered Spleen? The Experience of Madness in Early Modern Europe; Problematic Passions: History of the Emotions in Early Modern Europe; The Dead and the Undead, 1348-1800; Body, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe.

Summer Abroad: Vienna: At the Crossroads of Central Europe, 1500-2008



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