Ph.D. November 1991.  Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
 M.A. November 1986.  Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
 B.A. December 1982.  Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana

Teaching Experience:

2003-present Associate Professor, Department of History, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Sept 1998 - 2003 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
 July 1997 - June 1998 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto at Mississauga.
 Jan - May 1997 Instructor, Department of History, University of Toronto.
 1996   Instructor, Department of History, Queen’s University.
 1995-1996  Instructor, Department of History, University of Toronto.
 1994-1995  Instructor, Department of History, Queen’s University.
 1993-1994  Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Ottawa.
 1991-1993  Instructor, Department of History, Queen’s University.
 
 

Publications:

• "Pilgram Marpeck, the Spiritualizers, and the Anabaptist View of Church History," in C. Arnold Snyder, ed., Commoners and Community: Essays in Honour of Werner O. Packull. Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora Press, 2002, pp. 217-32.
• "Anti-Franciscanism in the Early Years of the Reformation: The Nature and Sources of Criticism," Luther Digest 9 (2001): 40-45.
• “Johann Eberlin von Günzburg” in Paul Grendler, ed. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (New York:  Scribner’s, 1999), 2: 241-42.
• “Sebastian Franck in Strasbourg” in Mennonite Quarterly Review 73 (1999), pp. 783-802.
• Co-edited with Werner Packull, Radical Reformation Studies:  Essays Presented to James M. Stayer (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999)
• “Sebastian Franck in the Münster Anabaptist Kingdom” in Dipple and Packull, ed. Radical Reformation Studies, pp. 91-105.
•  “Anti-Franciscanism in the Early Reformation:  The Nature and Sources of Criticism” in Franciscan Studies 55 (1998), 53-81.
• Antifraternalism and Anticlericalism in the German Reformation: Johann Eberlin von Günzburg and the Campaign Against the Friars.  St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.  (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996)
• “‘Yet from time to time there were men who protested against these evils’:  Anabaptism and medieval Heresy”  in Bruce Gordon, ed. Protestant History and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996), pp. 123-137.
• “Luther, Emser and the Development of Reformation Anticlericalism” in Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 87 (1996), pp. 38-56.
• “Uthred and the Friars:  Apostolic Poverty and Clerical Dominion Between FitzRalph and Wyclif” in Traditio 49 (1994), pp. 235-258.
• “Humanists, Reformers and Anabaptists on Scholasticism and the Deterioration of the Church” in Mennonite Quarterly Review 68 (1994), pp. 461-482.
• Johann Rot-Locher:  Ein radikaler Reformator?” in Mennonitische Geschichtsblätter 50 (1993), pp. 47-58.
• Book reviews in Canadian Book Review Annual, Catholic Historical Review, English Historical Review, International History Review, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Mennonite Quarterly Review, Mennonitische Geschichtsblätter, Renaissance and Reformation, Sixteenth Century Journal

Recent Conference Papers Presented:

"Spiritualist Anabaptists: Just a Passing Phase?" presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario, October, 2004.
"History and Anabaptist Confessionalism," presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October, 2003.
"Confessional Identity Among the Spritualizing Anabaptists," presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, Colorado, October, 2001.
"Historical Reflection in the Thought of Thomas Muntzer," presented at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, November 2000.
"Anabaptist Restitution Reconsidered," presented at the sixteenth century Studies conference, St. Louis, Mo, October 1999
  “Sebastian Franck and the Münster Anabaptist Kingdom,” presented at the Anabaptist Colloquim, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, April 1999.
  “The Roots of Sebastian Franck’s Historical Thought,” presented at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario, October 1998.
  “Sebastian Franck and the Anabaptist Spiritualist Encounters,” presented at the Anabaptist Colloquium, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, April 1998.
  “Sebastian Franck and the Anabaptists,” presented at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1997
  “The Holl-Troeltsch Debate and the Image of Sebastian Franck,” presented at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 1996.
  “The History of the Persecuted Remnant Among Early Mennonites,” presented at the Anabaptist Colloquium, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, April 1996.
    "Historical Reflection in the Thought of Thomas Muentzer," presented at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, OH, November 2000.