Faculty and Staff
Craig Koslofsky
Associate Professor of History
Craig Koslofsky (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1994) studies religion, culture, and daily life in late medieval and early modern Europe. His work on The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany was published by Macmillan Press / St. Martin's Press (Palgrave) in 2000. He is also co-editor of a study of the medieval cultural origins of the German Reformation: Kulturelle Reformation: Sinnformationen im Umbruch 1400-1600, edited with an introduction by Bernhard Jussen and Craig Koslofsky. Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte 145. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999.
Drawing on recent scholarship in the history of daily life, Koslofsky is completing a book on darkness and the night as experienced in the early modern period with the title Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe. A chapter from this study on "Court Culture and Street Lighting in Seventeenth-Century Europe," Journal of Urban History 28, 6 (2002), received the 2003 Michael Robinson Award of the Public Works Historical Society for the single best article published in the field of public works history.
In 2003 Koslofsky received the University of Illinois Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the George and Gladys Queen Award for Excellence in Teaching History from the Department of History at the University of Illinois. He has received research fellowships from the University of Illinois Mellon Faculty Fellows Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies and Clark Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, and from the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, Germany.