ADAM ASHER DUKER Department of History 219 O Shaughnessy Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 aduker@nd.edu 949.204.4294 EDUCATION University of Notre Dame Ph.D. Candidate, History, July 2016 Advisor Brad S. Gregory University of Notre Dame M.A., History, 2012 Advisor Brad S. Gregory University of Arizona M.A., History, 2009 The Division For Late Medieval and Reformation Studies Advisor Susan C. Karant-Nunn University of California, Berkeley B.A., summa cum laude, History, 2004 Advisor Thomas A. Brady, Jr. DISSERTATION Providence Under Pressure: Israelite Identity and Religious War in Early Modern France, 1550-1575. (Advisor: Professor Brad S. Gregory) PUBLICATIONS Articles: The Protestant Israelites of Sancerre: Jean de Léry and the Confessional Demarcation of Cannibalism, Journal of Early Modern History 18, no. 3 (2014): 255-286. Reviews: Review of D.G. Hart, Calvinism: A History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), English Historical Review, forthcoming. Review of Jules Racine St-Jacques, L honneur et la foi. Le droit de résistance chez les Réformés francais (1536-1581), Cahiers d Humanisme et Renaissance 107 (Genève: Librarie Droz, 2012), Church History and Religious Culture 19, no. 1: 127-129.
Review of Amy Nelson Burnett, ed., John Calvin, Myth or Reality?: Images and Impact of Geneva s Reformer (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011), Sixteenth Century Journal 44:2 (Summer 2013): 498-500. Review of Eric Nelson, The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), Sixteenth Century Journal 43:1 (Spring 2012): 233-234. Review of Herman J. Selderhuis, ed., Calvin Saint or Sinner?, Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation 51 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010), Religious Studies Review 37:4 (2011): 292-293. Review of G. Sujin Pak, The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth Century Debates over the Messianic Psalms, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), Symposia 3 (2011), http://symposia.library.utoronto.ca Papers in Preparation: The Hermeneutics of Emotional Restraint: Calvin s Pastoral Theology of Imprecation in Comparative Context, Sixteenth Century Journal (under revision for resubmission). LARGER EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Fulbright Fellowship Geneva, Switzerland, Institute for International Education, US State Department, 2012-2013. Bourse Jeanne Marandon Paris, France, la Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d Amérique Paris, France, 2013-2014. Harvey Fellowship, Mustard Seed Foundation, 2010-2013. Bourse de la Confédération Suisse (Swiss Government Fellowship), 2012-2013. Huguenot Research Scholarship, School for Advanced Studies, Institute for Historical Research, University of London, 2013. OTHER PRIZES, AWARDS, AND DISTINCTIONS Carl S. Meyer Prize for best research presented by an Assistant Professor or Graduate Student at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 2011. Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award for Excellence in Teaching, The Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, The University of Notre Dame, 2011. 2
Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley, 2004. Magna Cum Laude (High Distinction in General Scholarship), Awarded by the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, 2004. High Honors for Original Historical Research, Awarded by the Faculty of the Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, 2004. COURSES AND SEMINAR SYLLABI PREPARED AND IN PREPARATION A History of Christianity in the Reformation Era, 1450-1648 Judaism, Christianity and Islam: A Comparative History Food, Religion, and Morality: A Cultural Consideration of Christianity, Cannibalism, Corn, and Cake (ca. 10,000BC 2015AD) The Old Regime in Early Modern France (1453-1710) The Early Modern World (1492-1650) Mission and Memory: Travel Narratives in the Early Modern Atlantic World The Reformation and the Intellectual Foundations of Global Modernity Nations before Nationalism: Religion, Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Europe, the Levant, and Latin America (1095-1573) Christianity, Violence, and Wars of Religion: The Wars of Religion and the West, 1095-1710 Gilgamesh: Hero, King, and God CONFERENCE AND PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS August 2016 January 2016 October 2015 October 2014 Kicking Calvin Off the Couch: Prophecy, the New Psychohistory, and the End of Calvin Studies, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Bruges, Belgium. Less than a Prophet?: John Calvin, Prophecy, and the Resurrection of Psychohistory, American Society for Church History, Atlanta, GA. Roundtable Discussant: What Exile Isn t: Sieges, Siege Mentalities, and a Reconsideration of Psychohistory, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Vancouver, BC. Israelite Society and its Discontent: Jean de Léry s Histoire Mémorable in the Shadow of the Third Civil War, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA. 3
October 2013 June 2013 October 2011 October 2011 October 2010 May 2010 June 2009 February 2009 October 2008 May 2004 From Philistine Slayers to Covenant Breakers: Huguenot Appropriations of Israelite Identity, 1568-1573, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Protestant Israel: Huguenot Psychologies in the Third and Fourth Civil Wars, 1568-1573 l Institut d Histoire de la Réformation, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Roundtable Discussant: Meetings & Mergings: Promised Lands & Plantations, Location & Dislocation in Early Modern Religion Workshop, Trinity College at The University of Toronto. Two Ways of Understanding Cannibalism: Jean de Léry s Confessional and Ethnological Conceptions of the Morality of Anthropophagy, Fides et Historia, Mexico City, Mexico. The Hermeneutics of Emotional Restraint: Calvin s Pastoral Theology of Imprecation in Comparative Context, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Montreal, QC. * Awarded the Carl S. Meyer Prize. Jerusalem Surrounded: Confessional Identity and Holy War in Sixteenth- Century France and Seventeenth-Century Ireland, 45 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. The Protestant Israelites of Sancerre: Jean de Léry and the Confessional Demarcation of Cannibalism, Instituting Calvin: Society, Culture and Diaspora, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. Roundtable Discussant: How Should We Read Cannibalism Narratives?, Group for Early Modern Studies Roundtable on Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Arizona. The Meat of the Word: Jean de Léry and the Reformation of Cannibalism, Rocky Mountain Scholars Consortium, Tucson, AZ. The City on a Hill: Calvin, Geneva and the Dissemination of His Program, 1536-1564, Honor s Thesis Consortium, University of California, Berkeley. LARGER INTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2010-2015 Nanovic Institute for European Studies Graduate Professional Development Grant (multiple awards). 4
2014 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation s Grant for Religion Across the Disciplines. 2011-2015 Kellogg Institute for International Studies Graduate Travel Grant (multiple awards). 2013 Nanovic Institute for European Studies Graduate Break Travel and Research Grant. 2010-2012 Zahm Research and Travel Grant, University of Notre Dame (multiple awards). 2010-2012 Notre Dame s Institute for the Study of the Liberal Arts Travel Grant (multiple awards). 2012-2015 Nanovic Institute for European Studies Graduate Initiative Grant (multiple awards). 2012 Nanovic Institute for European Studies Winter Travel and Research Grant. 2010 Nanovic Institute for European Studies Language Training Grant, 2010. 2009 University of Arizona s Group for Early Modern Studies Travel Grant (multiple). 2009 University of Arizona s Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Committee Grant. 2008 University of Arizona s Group for Early Modern Studies Travel Grant. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2014 Spring 2011 Fall 2010 Instructor of Record: University of Notre Dame. From Latin Christendom to Western Europe: A History of Christianity in the Reformation Era, 1400-1648. Cross-listed as History 30352, German 30221, Medieval Studies 30221. Teaching Assistant: University of Notre Dame. Christianity, Commerce, and Consumerism: The Last 1000 Years, Prof. Brad Gregory. Teaching Assistant: University of Notre Dame. Tudor England: Politics and Power. Prof. Rory Rapple. 5
Summer 2008 Winter 2007 Spring 2005 Spring 2003 The Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies Lecture Series The Light in the Jungle: The Symphonic Missions of Albert Schweitzer. Guest Lecturer: University of Arizona. German Christianity and the Holocaust. Guest Lecturer: University of California at Berkeley. John Calvin and the French Reformation. Instructor of Record: University of California at Berkeley. Democratic Reforms in America and Beyond. Political Science De-Cal Course PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2015 Roundtable Panel Organizer, Defining Religious Exile in Early Modern Europe I, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Vancouver, BC. 2015 Roundtable Panel Organizer, Defining Religious Exile in Early Modern Europe II, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Vancouver, BC. 2015- Advisory Board Vice-Chair, The Harvey Fellowship. 2014 Research Workshop Guest Speaker, Winning Grants, Navigating Archives, and Conducting Research in Foreign Countries, Notre Dame Special Collections Colloquium for Fulbright Applicants. 2014 Session Organizer, New Perspectives on Jean de Léry and Reformation- Era Anthropophagy I, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA. 2014 Session Organizer, New Perspectives on Jean de Léry and Reformation- Era Anthropophagy II, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA. 2012-2014 Fellowship Application Reader, History Field, Harvey Fellowship. 2013 Session Organizer, Sieges and Siege Narratives in the Reformation Era, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2011-2012 Editorial Assistant to the North American Editors of the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History. 6
2011 Session Organizer and Chair, Reformation Discourse: Voice, Text, Context, The 46 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 2011 Session Organizer, The Reformation and Medieval Contexts I, 46 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 2011 Session Organizer, The Reformation and Medieval Contexts II, 46 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 2009 Chair and Comment, Religious and Cultural Rites of Initiation Panel, The Center Cannot Hold: The Movement of Ideas Between Imperial Centers and Peripheries Graduate Conference, University of Notre Dame. 2008-2009 Elected Member of the Steering Committee, Group for Early Modern Studies, The University of Arizona. RESEARCH POSTS AND RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES 2015 Philology Amongst The Disciplines, Notre Dame Institute of Advanced Studies Summer Seminar, Rome Italy. 2013-14 Yearlong Visiting Research Fellow, Centre Roland Mousnier, University of Paris-IV Sorbonne, Paris, France. 2012-13 Yearlong Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Reformation History University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. 2013 London Dissertation Program in the Transnational Humanities, Oxford University, Queen s College London, and University of Notre Dame, London, England. 2012 Cours d été, Institute for Reformation History, University of Geneva French Reformation and the Wars of Religion in the Catholic Historical Consciousness. 2012 French Paleography Course, Mellon Summer Institute in Vernacular Paleography, Newberry Library 2011 Cours d été, Institute for Reformation History, University of Geneva Prophets and Prophecy: Marginal or Central to the Sixteenth- Century Reformations? The Notion of Heresy in the Seventeenth Century: Theological Definitions, Church Practices, and Confessional Issues. 7
2010 Early Modern Workshop on Jewish Communities, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. 2010 Cours d été, Institute for Reformation History, University of Geneva Religious Practices during the French Wars of Religion Prayer in Lutheran and Reformed Traditions in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Theology, Spirituality, Writings, and Practice 2010 Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne, Paris, France. 2009 Cours d été, Institute for Reformation History, University of Geneva Free-thinkers, Libertines, and other Challenges to Religion The Mediation of the Sacred: Anticlericalism and the Redefinition of Religion during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. 2008 French Paleography Course, H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin College 2004 Ernst Troeltsch Study Group - The Social Teachings of the Christian Churches, Organized by Professor Thomas A. Brady, Jr., University of California, Berkeley. LANGUAGES French: Advanced Proficiency and Reading Knowledge Spanish: Intermediate Proficiency and Reading Knowledge Latin: Reading Knowledge Biblical Hebrew: Reading Knowledge German: Dictionary-Aided Reading Ability Italian: Dictionary-Aided Reading Ability RESEARCH POSITIONS HELD Research Assistant to Professors Brad Gregory and Randall Zachman, 2011-2012 Research Assistant to Professor Ute Lotz-Heumann, 2008-2009 Research Assistant to Professor Susan C. Karant-Nunn, 2007-2008 8
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Sixteenth Century Studies Society American Historical Association American Academy of Religion Society for Reformation Research American Society for Church History Western Society for French History REFERENCES Dr. Brad S. Gregory (Doctoral supervisor), University of Notre Dame Dr. Irena Backus (Fulbright advisor), University of Geneva Dr. Thomas A. Brady, Jr. (BA advisor, MA professor), University of California, Berkeley Dr. Rory Rapple, University of Notre Dame Dr. Greta Kroeker, University of Waterloo 9