Christine Kooi
Lewis, Katheryn and Benjamin Price Professor of European History
238A Himes Hall
ckooi1@lsu.edu
225-578-4499
Courses Taught
Western Civilization to 1500, The Renaissance, The Age of Reformation, The Dutch Republic and Empire, 1500-1800, Women in the Renaissance and Reformation, Early Modern Europe
Current Research Interests
The Reformation in the Low Countries, 1520-1620
Interested in Directing Theses On
The Reformation, Early Modern Netherlands
Education
B.A. summa cum laude, The College of Saint Rose (1987)
M.A., Ph.D., Yale University (1993)
Awards and Honors
Scaliger Fellowship, University of Leiden Library, Netherlands, 2025
Research Fellow, LECTIO, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 2024
Research Fellow, H.H. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin University, 2021
Research Fellow, Amsterdam Centre for the History and Heritage of Protestantism, Free University of Amsterdam, 2019
Editorial Board, Sixteenth Century Journal 2010
Louisiana Board of Regents ATLAS Grant, 2007-2008
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Resident Fellow 2003
LSU Council on Summer Research Grants (1995, 1998)
Carl Meyer Prize 1992
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference 1993
Notable Articles
Religious Diversity in Leiden, 1550-1800,” A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden, eds. Arie van Steensel and Ariadne Schmidt (Brill, 2025), pp. 330-352
“Women and Reformation in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries: A Historiographical Lacuna,” Early Modern Low Countries 9 (2025): 101-115
“Who were the Israelites in the Netherlandish Reformation?” The Old Testament, Calvin, and the Reformed Tradition, ed. Yudha Thianto (Leiden: Brill, 2024), pp. 111-131
“Reformations in the Low Countries,” Reformations Compared, eds. Richard Rex and Henry Jeffries (Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. 167-189
“Catholic Women in the Dutch Golden Age,” Embodiment, Identity, and Gender in the Early Modern Era (Routledge, 2021)
“The Synod of Dordrecht after Four Hundred Years,” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 111 (2020): 350-361
“Calvinism in the Early Modern Netherlands and the Dutch Atlantic World,” John Calvin in Context, ed. R. Ward Holder (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 391-398
“Calvinism and War,” Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe, eds. Crawford Gibben and Graeme Murdock (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 173-187
“Religious Tolerance,” Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age, eds. Geert Janssen and Helmer Helmers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 208-224
“The Reformation in the Netherlands: Some Historiographic Contributions in English,” Archive for Reformation History 100 (2009): 293-307
“Conversion in a Multiconfessional Society: The Dutch Republic,” in: Konversion und Konfession in der Frühen Neuzeit, eds. Ute-Lotz Heumann et al. (Gütersloher Verlaghaus, 2007), pp. 271-285
“The Netherlands,” in Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research, ed. David M. Whitford (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2007), pp. 273-289
“Paying Off the Sheriff: Strategies of Catholic Toleration in Golden Age Holland,” in Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002)
“Converts and Apostates: The Competition for Souls in Early Modern Holland,” Archive for Reformation History 92 (2001): 195-214
“Sub jugo haereticorum: Minority Catholicism in Early Modern Europe,” in Early Modern Catholicism (Toronto, 2001)
“Pharisees and Hypocrites: A Public Debate over Church Discipline in Leiden, 1586,” Archive for Reformation History 88 (1997): 258-278
“Popish Impudence: The Perseverance of the Catholic Faithful in Calvinist Holland, 1572-1620,” Sixteenth Century Journal 26 (1995): 75-85
Books
Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620 (Cambridge, 2022)
Calvinists and Catholics during Holland’s Golden Age: Heretics and Idolaters (Cambridge, 2012)
Liberty and Religion: Church and State in Leiden’s Reformation 1572-1620 (Brill, 2000)