Professor Matthew Koch
Position
Contact
Area of expertise
Early Modern European History, Colonial and Modern Latin American History (Not available to supervise)
Office Hours
Summer 2024: No office hours
Bio
I was born and mostly raised in Ontario. I studied as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto and Queen's, followed by graduate work at Johns Hopkins. I have long been interested in the cultural and social history of religion in early modern contexts, particularly the relationship between devotional practices and their societal setting. My research has focused on southern France in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when neighboring communities came to embrace the emerging confessional identities of Calvinism and Counter Reformation Catholicism. I have also explored and taught the history of early modern religion in a broader, Transatlantic context, comparing the austerity of the "New England Way" to the Baroque exuberance of New Spain, Peru, and Brazil.
Courses
| HSTR 240A | Europe: Renaissance to the French Revolution |
| HSTR 240B | Europe: Napoleon to the European Union |
| HSTR 276 | Modern Latin America |
| HSTR 320C | Bloodfeud, Politics and Culture in the Celtic World, 1485 - 1746 |
| HSTR 337A | The Birth of the Renaissance in Italy |
| HSTR 344B | Europe Between Two World Wars |
| HSTR 376A | Conquest and Rebellion in Latin America, 1492 - 1782 |
| HSTR 376B | The Struggle for Independence in Latin America, 1767 - 1867 |
| HSTR 376C | Revolutions and Dictators in 20th Century Latin America |
| HSTR 385A | Witchcraft and Its Persecution in the Early Modern Atlantic World |