Max Scholz

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I’ve had the privilege (and delight!) of being part of Yale’s History Department since I declared History my undergraduate major in 2006. As a PhD student, my interest in history remains broad, but my research focus has settled on religious exiles in the German-speaking lands of early modern Europe. In particular, I am interested in the ways in which the experience of exile affected religious culture. This semester, I am finishing a dissertation, based on my year of Fulbright research in Frankfurt’s archives, titled “Exile and the Recasting of the Reformation: Frankfurt am Main, 1554 – 1618.” My dissertation takes Frankfurt as a case study in exile accommodation and finds that the experience of exile imprinted on the Reformed exiles and their Lutheran hosts certain institutional characteristics that remain to this day. Frankfurt’s experience hosting exiles was part of a much broader phenomenon of exile accommodation in the cities of early modern Europe.

 

Professor Carlos Eire is my advisor.  Professors Bruce Gordon and Francesca Trivellato are also on my dissertation committee.  As my dissertation progresses, I realize more and more how immensely indebted I am to all three.

 

I am this year teaching “Origins of the Modern World” as an adjunct professor at Fairfield University. I also have extensive experience teaching history at Yale College and Yale Divinity School.