Curriculum Vitae
Geoffrey Dipple
Education:
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:
Sept 2003 - present Associate Professor, Department of History, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Sept 1998- Sept 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.
1992-1993 Instructor, Department of History, Queen’s University.
1992-1993 Coordinator, History 121 (Intellectual Origins of the Contemporary West), Department of History, Queen’s University.
1987-1993 Instructor, Department of History, Queen’s University. Did not teach during the DAAD fellowship period in Germany, 1988-1989.
1984-1987 Teaching Assistant under Dr. Robert Malcolmson and Dr. Roderick Phillips, Department of History, Queen’s University.
Head Teaching Assistant 1986-1987.
Publications:
Books:
“Just as in the Time of the Apostles:” Uses of History in the Radical Reformation (Kitchener, Ont: Pandora Press, 2005).
Co-edited with Werner Packull, Radical Reformation Studies: Essays Presented to James M. Stayer (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999).
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).
Articles & Book Chapters:
"The Spiritual Anabaptists," in A Companion to Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 1521-1700 edited by John D. Roth and James M. Stayer (Leiden: Brill, 2007), 257-297.
"Response to C. Arnold Snyder, 'The Birth and Evolution of Swiss Anabaptism (1520-1530)'" Mennonite Quarterly Review 80 (2006), 657-660.
“Pilgram Marpeck, The Spiritualizers and the Anabaptist View of Church History,” in Commoners and Community: Essays in Honour of Werner O. Packull, edited by C. Arnold Snyder (Kitchener, Ont: Pandora Press, 2002), 217-32.
“Anti-Franciscanism in the Early Years of the Reformation: The Nature and Sources of Criticism,” in Luther Digest 9 (2001), 40-45.
“Johann Eberlin von Günzburg” in Paul Grendler at al., eds., Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. (New York: Scribner’s, 1999), 2:241-42.
“Sebastian Franck in Strasbourg” in Mennonite Quarterly Review 78 (1999), 783-802.
“Sebastian Franck in the Münster Anabaptist Kingdom” in Dipple and Packull, eds. Radical Reformation Studies, 91-105.
“Anti-Franciscanism in the Early Reformation: The Nature and Sources of Criticism” in Franciscan Studies 55 (1998), 53-81.
“‘Yet from time to time there were men who protested against these evils’: Anabaptism and Medieval Heresy” in Protestant History and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe, edited by Bruce Gordon (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996), 1:123-137.
“Luther, Emser and the Development of Reformation Anticlericalism” in Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 87 (1996), 38-56.
“Uthred and the Friars: Apostolic Poverty and Clerical Dominion Between FitzRalph and Wyclif” in Traditio 49 (1994), 235-258.
“Humanists, Reformers and Anabaptists on Scholasticism and the Deterioration of the Church” in Mennonite Quarterly Review 68 (1994), 461-482.
"Johann Rot-Locher: Ein radikaler Reformator?” in Mennonitische Geschichtsblätter 50 (1993), 47-58.
Book Reviews in Canadian Book Review Annual, Catholic Historical Review, Dutch Review of Church History, English Historical Review, International History Review, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Mennonite Quarterly Review, Mennonitische Geschichtsblätter, Renaissance and Reformation, Renaissance Quarterly, and Sixteenth Century Journal
Conference Papers Presented:
"The Hutterite Chronicle: Subversive or Hegemonic Narrative?" presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 2007
"Eberlin and the Peasants," presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2006.
“’Sie sind al glichsner’: Antifraternalism in Medieval and Renaissance German Literature,” presented at “A Literary Apostolate:” Franciscans, Lovers and Critics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. A Conference in Honor of John V. Fleming. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April 2006.
“Was Wolfaria a Protestant Utopia?” presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 2005.
“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, PA, October 2003.
“Confessional Identity Among the Early Spiritualizing Anabaptists,” presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, CO, October 2001.
“Historical Reflection in the Thought of Thomas Müntzer,” presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, OH, November 2000.
“Anabaptist Restitution Reconsidered,” presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 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.
“German Authoritarianism and Martin Luther’s Search for a Patron,” presented to the History Students Union, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, March 1996.
“The Development of Luther’s Anticlericalism,” presented at the Anabaptist Colloquium, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, April 1995.
“Heinrich von Kettenbach, the Reformation, and the Knights’ Revolt of 1523,” presented at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario, October 1994.
“‘Yet from time to time there were men who protested against these evils’: Anabaptism and Medieval Heresy,” presented to European Reformation Group, St Andrews University, St Andrews, Scotland, August 1994.
“Did Eberlin von Günzburg have a radical Karlstadtian Phase?” presented at Learned Societies Conference, Calgary, Alberta, June 1994.
“Anabaptists, the Donation of Constantine and the Beginnings of Confessionalization,” presented at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, December 1993.
“The Anabaptist Continuation of Medieval Discourse on the Deterioration of the Church,” presented at the Anabaptist Colloquium, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, April 1993.
“Antifraternalism in ‘The Fifteen Confederates’ of Johann Eberlin von Günzburg,” presented at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1992.
“Johann Rot-Locher: A Radical Reformer?” presented at Anabaptist Colloquium, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, April 1992
Membership in Professional Societies
Editorial Board, Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History
Mennonite Historical Society
Renaissance Society of America
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
Society for Reformation Research
Work in Progress:
“Eberlin and the Peasants.”
“’Sie sind al glichsner:’ Antifraternalism in Medieval and Renaissance German Literature.”
Translation into English of Johann Eberlin von Günzburg’s 15 Bundesgenossen.
Book-length study of literary utopias in the Protestant Reformation