Associate Professor

Program: Historical Studies

Email:  b56eb@mun.ca

Phone: (709) 637-2191

Room: Arts and Science Annex, room 332T

 

Credentials

Ph.D., University of Toronto

 

Research interests

• Protestant-Catholic relations in Early Modern France
• The use and design of databases
• Residential urban mapping using ArcGIS
• Reading Early Modern French manuscripts
• French Protestant refugee communities outside of France
• Confraternities in Early Modern France

Teaching

I teach in the areas of Early Modern Europe, the Atlantic World, medieval history, and New France.

 

Representative scholarly contributions

“Vulnerable Progeny: Three French Protestant Rural Communities during the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598).” Church History and Religious Culture 105 (2025): 1-24.

“La Stabilité d’une Communauté Minoritaire: Le Consistoire de l’Église   Wallonne d’Amsterdam, 1594-1607.” Bulletin de l’Association Suisse pour l’histoire du Refuge huguenot 33 (2020): 19-31.

 

Current research projects and grants

“The Christians of Loudun: Protestant-Catholic Dynamics in a French Provincial City (ca.1560-1640)” (book project in progress, at the writing stage).

 

Awards and recognitions

I am the recipient of the Grenfell Campus Student Union Teaching and Learning Award.

 

 

Memberships and affiliations

Society for Confraternity Studies

 

Honours, graduate and post-graduate supervision

Member, Ph.D. committee of Eugene Knight (Department of History, St. John’s campus)
Member, Ph.D. committee of Ericka Larkin (Department of English, St. John’s campus)