Faculty

Levack, Brian P.
Professor
John E. Green Regents Professorship in History
Distinguished Teaching Professor

Office: GAR 3.502
Office Hours: Spring 2009: T 2:00-300 PM and W 1:00-2:00 PM
Phone: 512-475-7204
levack@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 1970, Yale University

Research interests:
He is currently studying demonic possession in early modern Europe.

Courses taught:
Early modern Britain, the history of witchcraft, the history of political thought, and comparative legal systems.

Geographic Area(s) of Study: Europe: Early Modern

Thematic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern Worlds; Religion and Culture; Intellectual History

Awards/Honors:
Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2004; Scholar in Residence, Frances Lewis Law Center, Washington and Lee University School of Law, 1994; Raymond Dickson Teaching Fellowship, 1989; President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award, 1985; Liberal Arts Council Teaching Award, 1984; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975-6

Recent Publications:
Professor Levack is the author of Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion (2008), The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union 1603-1707 (1987), The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (1987, 3rd ed. 2006), and The Civil Lawyers in England 1603-1641: A Political Study (1973).

He has edited The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2004) and co-edited The Jacobean Union: Six Tracts of 1604 (1985). He is the co-author of The West: Encounters and Transformations (2004, 2nd ed. 2007) and Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1999).