Early Modern European History, Colonial and Modern Latin American History (Not available to supervise)
Summer 2024: No office hours
I was born and mostly raised in Ontario. I studied as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto and Queen's, followed by graduate work at Johns Hopkins. I have long been interested in the cultural and social history of religion in early modern contexts, particularly the relationship between devotional practices and their societal setting. My research has focused on southern France in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when neighboring communities came to embrace the emerging confessional identities of Calvinism and Counter Reformation Catholicism. I have also explored and taught the history of early modern religion in a broader, Transatlantic context, comparing the austerity of the "New England Way" to the Baroque exuberance of New Spain, Peru, and Brazil.