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ACADEMIC ADDRESS
Department of History
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.
V5A 1S6, Canada
778-782-5816 (phone)
778-782-5837 (fax)
e-mail: pabel@sfu.ca

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  • Professor of History, Simon Fraser University, 2005-.
  • Associate Professor of History, Simon Fraser University, 1997-2005.
  • Assistant Professor of History, Simon Fraser University, 1992-1997.

    EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. Yale University, 1992.
  • M.A. University of Toronto, 1987.
  • B.A. St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, 1986.
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    ACADEMIC AWARDS

  • 2009 - 2012: Standard Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
  • 2009: Fellowship, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, awarded September 2007
  • 2007: Small Grant, SSHRC
  • 2006: Conference Travel Grant, SSHRC
  • 2005: Senior Scholar Research Fellowship, Renaissance Society of America
  • 2003: Fellowship, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany (awarded July 2002)
  • 2002: Fellowship, Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Rome).
  • 2001-2004: SSHRC Standard Grant: Reading and Editing Jerome in the Renaissance: Erasmus of Rotterdam in Context
  • 2001: Visiting Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  • 2000: Conference Travel Grant, (SSHRC).
  • 1999: Small Research Grant, SSHRC.
  • 1997: Small Research Grant, SSHRC.
  • 1995: President's Research Grant, Simon Fraser University.
  • 1995: Research Semester Research Grant, Simon Fraser University.
  • 1995: Small Research Grant, SSHRC.
  • 1994: Conference Travel Grant, SSHRC.
  • 1993: Summer Senior Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto.
  • 1993: Small Research Grant, SSHRC.
  • 1992: Postdoctoral Fellowship, SSHRC, declined.
  • 1991-1992: Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship.
  • 1987-1991: Doctoral Fellowship, SSHRC.
  • 1986-1987: Special M.A. Scholarship, SSHRC.
  • 1986: All Souls Historical Essay Scholarship in Medieval and Modern History, University of Toronto.
  • 1986: Maurice Cody Prize in Modern History, University of Toronto.
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    AREAS OF RESEARCH/TEACHING COMPETENCY

  • Reformation/Early Modern Europe.
  • Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
  • Modern Europe with emphasis on Modern Germany.
  • Western Civilization.

    COURSES TAUGHT, 1992-2008

    Undergraduate Courses

  • Western Civilization from the Ancient World to the Reformation Era (Hist. 105).
  • Western Civilization from the Reformation Era to the Twentieth Century (Hist. 106).
  • Europe, 1100-1550 (Hist. 220).
  • Early Modern Europe, 1550-1789 (Hist. 223).
  • History of Christianity until 1500 (Hist. 288)
  • Approaches to History (Hist. 300, taught as a directed studies course in 97-3).
  • Renaissance Studies (Hum. 312).
  • Reformation Europe (Hist. 320)
  • State and Society in Early Modern Europe (Hist. 321)
  • Ideas and Society in Early Modern Europe (formerly Absolutism and Enlightenment).
  • Catholicism in Early Modern Europe (Hist. 439).

    Supervisor of Undergraduate Distance Education Courses

  • World War II (Hist. 338)
  • British Empire and Commonwealth (Hist. 339)

    Graduate Courses

  • Luther and the Reformation (Hist. 811 in 94-2)
  • Early Modern Europe (Hist. 821)
  • European Cultural and Intellectual History (Hist. 828)
  • Religion and Society (Hist. 892)
  • State and Society (Hist. 893)
  • War and Society (Hist. 894)
  • Supervised Readings (Hist. 897)
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    PUBLICATIONS

    Monographs

  • Herculean Labours: Erasmus and the Editing of St. Jerome's Letters in the Renaissance. Leiden: Brill, 2008.
  • Conversing with God: Prayer in Erasmus' Pastoral Writings. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

    Edited Collections of Essays

  • Holy Scripture Speaks: Studies in the Production and Reception of Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament, ed. Hilmar M. Pabel and Mark Vessey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
  • Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, SJ, ed. Kathleen M. Comerford and Hilmar M. Pabel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
  • Erasmus' Vision of the Church, ed. Hilmar M. Pabel (Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1995).

    Journal Articles

  • "Paraphrase and Plagiarism: Peter Canisius' Exposition of Psalm 51." Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 80 (2011): 371-406.
  • "Peter Canisius and the 'Truly Catholic' Augustine." Theological Studies 71 (2010): 903-925.
  • "The Authority of Augustine in Erasmus' Biblical Exegesis." Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 29 (2009): 61-87.
  • "Augustine's Confessions and the Autobigraphies of Peter Canisius." Church History and Religious Culture 87 (2007): 453-75.
  • "Erasmus, Willem Vorsterman, and the Printing of St. Jerome's Letters." Quaerendo 37 (2007): 267-90.
  • "Peter Canisius as a Catholic Editor of a Catholic St. Jerome." Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 96 (2005): 171-97.
  • "Sixteenth-Century Catholic Criticism of Erasmus' Edition of St. Jerome." Reformation and Renaissance Review 6 (2004): 231-62.
  • "Reading Jerome in the Renaissance: Erasmus' Reception of the Adversus Jovinianum," Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002): 470-97.
  • "Retelling the History of the Early Church: Erasmus's Paraphrase on Acts." Church History 69 (2000): 63-85
  • "'Feminae unica est cura pudicitiae': Rhetoric and the Inculcation of Chastity in Book 1 of Vives' De institutione feminae christianae." Humanistica Lovaniensia 48 (1999): 70-102.
  • "Erasmus' Esteem for Cyprian: Parallels in their Expositions of the Lord's Prayer." Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 17 (1997): 55-69.
  • "Erasmus of Rotterdam and Judaism: A Reexamination in Light of New Evidence." Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 87 (1996): 9-37.
  • "Promoting the Business of the Gospel: Erasmus' Contribution to Pastoral Ministry." Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 15 (1995): 53-70.
  • "'Give to Caesar that which is Caesars': Hobbes's Strategy in the Second Half of Leviathan." Journal of Church and State 35 (1993): 335-349.

    Chapters in Books

  • "Meditation in the Service of Catholic Orthodoxy: Peter Canisius' Notae Evangelicae." In Meditatio: Refashioning the Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual Culture, ed. Karl Enenkel and Walter Melion, 257-89. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
  • "Credit, Paratexts, and Editorial Strategies in Erasmus of Rotterdam's Editions of Jerome." In Cognition and the Book: Typologies of Formal Organisation of Knowledge in the Printed Book of the Early Modern Period, ed. Karl A. E. Enenkel and Wolfgang Neuber, 217-56. Leiden: Brill, 2005 = Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies 4 (2004): 217-256.
  • "Marriage and Exegesis in Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament," in Holy Scripture Speaks: Studies in the Production and Reception of Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament, 175-209. Edited by Hilmar M. Pabel and Mark Vessey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
  • "Humanism and Early Modern Catholicism: Erasmus of Rotterdam's Ars Moriendi." In Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, SJ, 26-45. Edited by Kathleen M. Comerford and Hilmar M. Pabel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
  • "The Prince of Peace: Erasmus' Conception of Jesus." In The Unbounded Community: Papers on Christian Ecumenism in Honor of Jaroslav Pelikan, 127-48. Edited by William P. Caferro and Duncan Fisher. New York: Garland, 1996.
  • "The Peaceful People of Christ: The Irenic Ecclesiology of Erasmus of Rotterdam." In Erasmus' Vision of the Church, 57-93, ed. Hilmar M. Pabel (Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1995).

    Book Reviews

  • Review of Massimo Faggioli, Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning (New York: Paulist Press, 2012) in The Tablet, 7 April 2012, 27.
  • Review of Robert Nugent, Silence Speaks: Teilhard de Chardin, Yves Congar, John Courtney Murray and Thomas Merton (New York: Paulist Press, 2011) in The Tablet, 19 November 2011, 20.
  • Review of Yves Congar, True and False Reform in the Church, trans. Paul Philibert (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2011) in The Tablet, 1 October 2011, 21.
  • Review of Orlando Figes, Crimea: The Last Crusade (London: Allen Lane, 2010) in The Tablet, 21 May 2011, 22.
  • Review of Craig A. Monson, Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art and Arson in the Convents of Italy (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2010) in The Tablet, 5 March 2011.
  • Review of John M. Frymire, The Primacy of the Postils: Catholics, Protestants, and the Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany (Leiden: Brill, 2010) in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 62 (2011): 390-91.
  • Review of Timothy Luke Johnson, Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009) in The Tablet, 30 October 2010.
  • Review of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 84: Controversy with Alberto Pio, ed. Nelson H. Minnich, trans. Daniel Sheerin (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) in Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology 19 (2010): 231-34.
  • Review of Andrew Cain, The Letters of Jerome: Asceticism, Biblical Exegesis, and the Construction of Christian Authority in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) in Church History 79 (2010): 683-85.
  • Review of James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life (New York: HarperCollins, 2010) in The Tablet, 24 July 2010.
  • Review of Bruce Gordon, Calvin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009) in The Tablet, 12 December 2009, 22.
  • Review of Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus, ed. Erika Rummel (Leiden: Brill, 2008) in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 61 (2009): 183-85.
  • Review of The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits, ed. Thomas Worcester (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) in Church History 78 (2009): 458-61.
  • Review of John Calvin and Roman Catholicism: Critique and Engagement, Then and Now, ed. Randall C. Zachman (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008), in The Tablet, 13 June 2009, 23.
  • Review of Peter Macardle, Confabulations: Cologne Life and Humanism in Hermann Schotten's Confabulationes tironum litterariorum (Cologne, 1525) (Durham: Durham Modern Languages Series, 2007), in Renaissance Quarterly 62 (2009): 269-71.
  • Review of What Happened at Vatican II, by John W. O'Malley (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), in The Tablet, 18 October 2008, 22.
  • Review of Érasme et le pouvoir de l'imprimerie, by Karine Crousaz (Lausanne: Éditions Antipodes, 2005), in English Historical Review 122 (2007): 1395-96.
  • Review of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 84: Controversy with Alberto Pio, ed. Nelson H. Minnich, trans. Daniel Sheerin (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) for Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology (in press).
  • Review of Constance M. Furey, Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters (Cambridge: Cambridge of University Press, 2006), in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 58 (2007): 340.
  • Review of Christine Christ-von Wedel, Erasmus von Rotterdam: Anwalt eines neuzeitlichen Christentums (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2003) in Zwingliana 33 (2006): 231-32.
  • Review of Jan van Herwaaren, Between Saint James and Erasmus-Studies in Faith in Late-Medieval Religious Life: Devotion and Pilgrimage in the Netherlands (Leiden: Brill, 2003), in Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 25 (2005): 98-102.
  • Review of The Work of Heiko A. Oberman: Papers from the Symposium on His Seventieth Birthday, ed. Thomas A Brady, Jr., Katherine G. Brady, Susant Karant-Nunn, James D. Tracy (Leiden: Brill, 2003), in Renaissance Quarterly 57 (2004): 1066-68.
  • Review of Erika Rummel, The Case against Johannes Reuchlin: Religious and Social Controversy in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002) in Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 24 (2004): 142-48.
  • Review of Bruce Mansfield, Erasmus in the Twentieth Century: Interpretations c 1920-2000 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003) in Church History 73 (2004): 202-204.
  • Review of Hugo Grotius, De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra, 2 vols., ed. and trans. Harm-Jan van Dam (Leiden: Brill, 2001) in Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003): 866-67.
  • Review of The Adages of Erasmus, ed. William Barker (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001) in Sixteenth Century Journal 33 (2002): 1223-24.
  • Review of Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler, ed. Frank J. Coppa (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1999) in Studia Canonica 35 (2001): 517-20.
  • Review of Ronald G. Witt, "In the Footsteps of the Ancients": The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000) in Catholic Historical Review 87 (2001): 730-32.
  • Review of Craig Harline and Eddy Put, A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000) in Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001): 970-72.
  • Review of John W. O'Malley, Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000) in International History Review 23 (2001): 391-93.
  • Review of Cultures of Piety: Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation, ed. Anne Clark Bartlett and T homas H. Bestul (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999) in Sixteenth Century Journal 31 (2000): 1141-42.
  • Review of Sabine Vogel, Kulturtransfer in der frühen Neuzeit: die Vorworte der Lyoner Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1999) in Renaissance Quarterly 53 (2000): 580-81.
  • Review of J. A. Fernandez-Santamaria, The Theater of Man: J. L. Vives on Society (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1998) in Sixteenth Century Journal 30 (1999): 487-89.
  • Review of John Witte, Jr., From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997) in Studia Canonica 32 (1998): 566-68.
  • Review of Judith T. Wozniak, A Time for Peace: The Ecclesiastes of Erasmus (New Orleans: University Press of the South, 1996) in Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 18 (1998): 125-30.
  • Review of Reformations Old and New: Essays on the Socio-Economic Impact of Religious Change, c. 1470-1630, ed. Beat A Kümin (Aldershot, Hampshire: Scolar Press, 1997) in Sixteenth Century Journal 29 (1998): 273-75.
  • Review of Difference and Dissent: Theories of Tolerance in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. Cary J. Nederman and John Christian Laursen (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996) for H-Albion in January 1998 and available on the World Wide Web through H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27016893880568.
  • Review of Geoffrey Dipple, Antifraternalism and Anticelricalism in the German Reformation: Johann Eberlin von Günzberg and the Campaign against the Friars (Aldershot, Hampshire: Scolar Press, 1996) in Canadian Journal of History 32 (1997): 248-49.
  • Review of Gary Remer, Humanism and the Rhetoric of Toleration (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996) in Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997): 298-300.
  • Review of Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 50 (University of Toronto Press, 1995) in Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 309-10.
  • Review of Collected Works of Erasmus, vols. 11 and 56 (University of Toronto Press, 1994), in Renaissance and Reformation 19 (1995): 85-87 (published in March 1996).
  • Review of John W. O'Malley, The First Jesuits (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993) in Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 15 (1995): 109-14.
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    CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • "The Reaction to Heretics in the Catechisms of Peter Canisius, SJ." Renaissance Society of America Conference, Washington DC, 22-24 March 2012.
  • "Peter Canisius and Erasmus: A Reprise." Conference on Around Erasmus: A European Humanist and His Early Modern Readers, Amsterdam, 13-14 January 2011.
  • "Paraphrase and Plagiarism: Peter Canisius' Exposition of Psalm 51." Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Conference on Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1300-1700), Amsterdam, 17-19 June 2010.
  • "The Humanist Credentials of Peter Canisius, SJ." Renaissance Society of America Conference, Venice, 8-10 April 2010.
  • "Peter Canisius's Meditationes sive Notae Evangelicae." Conference on Discourses of Meditation in Art and Literature, 1300-1600, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, 23-25 April 2009.
  • "Erasmus' Reception of Augustine in his Edition of Jerome." Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago, 4-6 April 2008.
  • "Augustine's Confessions and the Autobiographies of Peter Canisius." St. Augustine Confessions Conference, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, 30-31 March 2007.
  • "Erasmus, Willem Vorsterman, and the Printing of St. Jerome's Letters." Conference on Erasmus and the Republic of Letters, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, 4-7 September 2006.
  • "The Expurgation of Erasmus' Edition of Jerome, 1522-1571." Renaissance Society of America Conference, Cambridge University, 7-9 April 2005.
  • "Peter Canisius and the Confessionalization of Humanism." Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Toronto, 28-31 October 2004.
  • "Muting Catholic Criticism of Erasmus: Christopher Plantin's Printing of Mariano Vittori's Edition of Jerome." Renaissance Society of America Conference, New York, 1-3 April 2004.
  • "Peter Canisius as a Catholic Editor of a Catholic St. Jerome." Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Pittsburgh, 30 October-2 November 2003.
  • "Paratexts and Editorial Strategy: Erasmus as Editor of Jerome." International conference on Cognition and the Book: Typologies of Formal Organization in the Printed Book of the Early Modern Book, Freie Universität, Berlin, 25-28 September 2002.
  • "The Incunable Jerome: An Influence on Erasmus?" Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, 25-28 October 2001.
  • "With or Against Jerome?: Erasmus' Reception of the Adversus Jovinianum." Renaissance Society of America Conference, Florence, 20-24 March 2000.
  • "Rhetoric and Piety: Erasmus of Rotterdam's Ars Moriendi." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, 28-31 October, 1999.
  • "Marriage and Exegesis in Erasmus' Paraphrases." Symposium on "Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament: Composition - Translation - Reception" Toronto, 1-2 October 1999.
  • "Historical Imagination and Historical Reliability in Erasmus' Paraphrase on Acts." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario, 22-25 October 1998.
  • "Erasmus and the Jews of History." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario, 22-25 October 1998.
  • "Sacred Letters, Sacred History: Erasmus as Historian in the Paraphrase on Acts (1524)." Conference on Motives, Pretexts, Speeches and Events: Literature, History and the Use of the Past in the Early Modern Period, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 12-13 March 1998.
  • "Making the Case for Chastity: Vives' Advice for Virgins." Renaissance Society of America Conference, Vancouver, BC, 3-6 April 1997.
  • "Erasmus' Esteem for Cyprian: Parallels in their Expositions of the Lord's Prayer." Renaissance Society of America Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, 18-21 April 1996.
  • "Erasmus adversus Judaeos: Anti-Judaism in the Paraphrases on the New Testament." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Francisco, 26-28 October 1995.
  • "Erasmus' Ave Maria in the Context of the Reformation." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, 27-29 October 1994.
  • "Erasmus' Prince of Peace." The Unbounded Community: Conversations across Times and Disciplines--A conference on Christian ecumenism commemorating the seventieth birthday of Professor Jaroslav Pelikan, Yale University, 29-30 April 1994.
  • "Erasmus' Exposition of the Lord's Prayer in Historical Context." Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1-2 October 1993.
  • "Prayer: Erasmus' Remedy for a Divided Christendom." Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 22-24 October 1992.
  • "Erasmus' Apology for the Invocation of the Saints." Eighth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, Florida, 12-14 March 1992.

    INVITED PAPERS/GUEST LECTURES

  • "Erasmus, Augustine, and Exegesis." Margaret Mann Phillips Lecture. Sixteenth Century Studies and Conference, St. Louis, 25 October 2008.
  • "Erasmus as Exegete and Editor and the Problem of Marriage." Department of French, University of Victoria, 26 January 2006.
  • "Werdegang und Wertung der Hieronymus-Ausgabe des Petrus Canisius." Institut für Geistesgeschichte der Renaissance, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 8 March 2004.
  • "Creating Credit and Producing Paratexts: Editing in the Renaissance." Department of History, Simon Fraser University, 14 February 2002.
  • "Renaissance Rhetoric and the Control of Female Sexuality." Department of History, Simon Fraser University, 25 September 1997.
  • "Renaissance Humanism, Anti-Semitism, and Historiography: The Case of Erasmus of Rotterdam." Department of History, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, 15 March 1996.
  • "The Prayer Books of Erasmus of Rotterdam." Department of History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 23 January 1996.
  • "Erasmus of Rotterdam and Pastoral Ministry." Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 28 February 1995.
  • "Erasmus and the Learning of his Time." Department of History, University of Ottawa, 28 February 1994.
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    PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

  • Co-editor, Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine (in progress)
  • Member, Editorial Board, Collected Works of Erasmus
  • Book review editor, Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook
  • Member and Webmaster, Erasmus of Rotterdam Society
  • Moderator, nomen-erasmi@sfu.ca, electronic discussion list of the Erasmus of Rotterdam Society
  • Member, Renaissance Society of America
  • Member, Nominating Committee, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC), 2002-2004
  • Member, Council of the SCSC, 1998-2001
  • Co-organizer, Symposium on "Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament: Composition - Translation - Reception," Toronto, 1-2 October 1999

    UNIVERSITY SERVICE

  • September 2011-August 2012: Chair, Graduate Programme Committee, Department of History, SFU
  • April 2011-May 2012: Member, Faculty College, Faculty Review Committe, SFU
  • September 2010-August 2011: Past President, Simon Fraser University Faculty Association (SFUFA)
  • September 2009-August 2010: President, SFUFA
  • September 2008-August 2009: Vice-President (President Elect), SFUFA
  • September 2008-May 2009: Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of History
  • September 2007-August 2008: Director, Executive, SFUFA
  • October 2007-December 2007: Member, Nominating Committee, SFUFA
  • December 2007-: Member, Advisory Committee on Collegial Governance, SFUFA
  • September 2007-: Member, Senate Committee on Academic Integrity in Student Learning & Evaluation
  • September 2007-: Member, Work Environment Committee, Department of History
  • September 2005-August 2006: Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of History
  • June 2005-: Member, Faculty Association Advisory Committee on Contractual Mandatory Retirement
  • September 2004-December 2005: Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of History
  • September 2004-February 2005: Member, Joint Search Committee, Department of History / Department of Humanities
  • September 2004-November 2004: Member, Search Committee, Department of History
  • September 2003-August 2004: Associate Chair, Department of History
  • September 2003-August 2004: Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of History
  • September 2002-August 2003: Member, Departmental Tenure Committee, Department of History
  • September 2002-August 2003: Member, Appointments Committe, Department of History
  • July 2001-: Member, Senate Undergraduate Awards Adjudication Committee
  • July 2000-June 2003: Member, Senate Appeals Board, Simon Fraser University.
  • September 1998-June1999: Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of History.
  • November 1997-February 1998: Member, Departmental Tenure Committee, Department of History.
  • October 1997-January 1998: Member, Departmental Tenure Committee, Department of French.
  • June 1997: Member, Special Three-Year Plan Committee, Department of History.
  • November 1996-March 1997: Member, Departmental Tenure Committee, Inter-Disciplinary Studies.
  • June 1996: Member, Appointments Committee, Department of History.
  • Autumn 1995: Member, Departmental Tenure Committee, Humanities Programme.
  • Autumn 1995: Member, Faculty of Arts Computing Advisory Committee.
  • 1994-1996: Member, Senate Committee on International Undergraduate Student Exchanges.
  • 1993-1994: Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of History.
  • 1992-1994: Member, Departmental Tenure Committee, Department of History.
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