Contact Information
309 Gregory Hall
810 S Wright
M/C 466
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
early modern Europe
history of everyday life
the early modern world, 1400-1800
Research Description
My current research focuses on human skin in the early modern era.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, History
Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Professor, Program in Medieval Studies
Professor, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
External Links
Recent Publications
Koslofsky, C. (2026). Owners of Themselves? Tattooed Servants, Soldiers, and Sailors in the British Atlantic World. Slavery and Abolition, 47(1), 60-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2025.2570610
Paul, T., Apter, A., & Koslofsky, C. (2026). The Matrix of Human Commodification in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World. Slavery and Abolition, 47(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2025.2570606
Koslofsky, C., & Seneviratne, S. K. (2024). Mbius skin dermal history in the early modern age. In Shakespeare / Skin: Contemporary Readings in Skin Studies and Theoretical Discourse (pp. 11-42). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
Koslofsky, C. (2021). Offshoring the invisible world? American ghosts, witches, and demons in the early enlightenment. Critical Research on Religion, 9(2), 126-141. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050303220986971
Koslofsky, C. (2021). Slavery and skin: The native Americans Ocktscha Rinscha and Tuski Stannaki in the Holy Roman Empire, 1722-1734. In Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650-1850 (pp. 81-108). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748833-004