Department of History - Carnegie Mellon University

Faculty

Allyson F. Creasman

Rank: Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: University of Virginia, 2002
Department Member Since: 2005

Dr. Creasman’s research interests focus on religious reform and confessional relations in early modern Europe. Her current research examines, in particular, the impact of censorship on the formation of public opinion and the construction of civic and religious identity in early modern Germany. Dr. Creasman’s work also focuses on social discipline and criminality in the early modern era, particularly as related to issues of religious conflict and coexistence. Her current book project, Printed Poison and Evil Talk: Censorship and Public Opinion in Reformation Germany, explores the regulation of print and oral culture in Germany’s imperial cities during the “long Reformation” (c. 1520-1650).

Dr. Creasman earned her Ph.D and M.A. in history at the University of Virginia, and she was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to Germany in 1998-2000. Before turning to history, she practiced law in Florida, having earned her B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Florida. Her publications include “‘Lies as Truth’” – Policing Print and Oral Culture in the Early Modern City,” in Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany, ed. Marjorie E. Plummer and Robin Barnes (forthcoming from Ashgate), “Side-Stepping the Censors: the Clandestine Trade in Prohibited Texts in Early Modern Augsburg,” in Shell Games: Scams, Frauds and Deceits in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Cultures (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004), and “The Virgin Mary Against the Jews: Anti-Jewish Polemic in the Pilgrimage to the Schöne Maria of Regensburg, 1519-1525,” Sixteenth Century Journal 33(4): 965-83 (Winter 2002).