Andrew L. Thomas, PhD
Professor of History, Director of History Program
Salem Through My Eyes
To me, ӣ embodies the rich, historical and living legacy of a liberal arts college striving to empower women by offering a high quality education.
Fun Facts
I enjoy traveling, backpacking, cross-country skiing, sailing, and bird watching with my family.
Education
PhD, Purdue University, 2007
Selected Publications
Books:
The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg: Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander’s World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022.
A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1650. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Book Chapters:
“The Culture of the Palatine Court in Heidelberg at the Dawn of the Seventeenth Century.” In Churfürstlicher hochzeitlicher Heimführungs Triumph. Inszenierung und Wirkung der Hochzeit Kurfürst Friedrichs V. mit Elisabeth Stuart 1613, eds. Nichola Hayton, Hanns Hubach, and Marco Neumaier, 327-350. Mannheimer historische Schriften. Ubstadt-Weiher: Verlag Regionalkultur, 2020.
[coauthor Charles Ingrao]. “Piety and Power: The Empresses-Consort of the High Baroque.” In Queenship in Europe 1660-1815: The Role of the Consort, ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr, 107-130. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Journal Articles:
“Encompassing the World in the Alps: The Habsburg Court at Innsbruck in the Late Renaissance and Early Baroque.” Studies in Travel Writing 27 (2024): 52-70.
“Lutheran Orthodoxy and Eastern Orthodoxy: Andreas Osiander’s Impact on Ducal Prussia’s Confessional Frontier.” Archive for Reformation History 114 (2023): 129-157.
“Wittelsbachs, Habsburgs, and Hohenzollerns: Gender, Kinship, and Confession in the Funeral Literature for Susanna of Bavaria.” Austrian History Yearbook 48 (2017): 131-144.
“Francis Daniel Pastorius and the Northern Protestant Transatlantic World.” Acta Comeniana: International Review of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History 28 (2014): 95-126.
[coauthor Charles Ingrao]. “Piety and Patronage: The Empresses-Consort of the High Baroque.” German History 20 (2002): 20-43.