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He has served one term as President of the Carleton University Academic Staff Association and is cross-appointed to the Department of History.<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Early Modern Christianity, especially lesser-known varieties of Protestantism<\/li>\n<li>The history of historiography, especially as practiced by lesser-known Protestants (so-called \u201cconfessional\u201d historiography)<\/li>\n<li>So-called \u201creligious riots\u201d and, more generally,\u00a0 \u201creligion and violence.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Currently working on a book on the manuscript chronicles of seventeenth-century German Protestants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3>Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<p><em>Religion, Government and Political Culture in Early Modern Germany\u00a0<\/em>(2002)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal Yokels: Vernacular Manuscript Chronicles and Urban Identity in Early Modern Germany\u201d in: Clark, Owens and Smith, eds.,\u00a0<em>City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(2010)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRevisiting the Confessional: Donald Wiebe\u2019s \u201cSmall \u2018c\u2019 Confessional,\u201d Its Historical Entailments and Linguistic Entanglements\u201d in: Arnal, Braun and McCutcheon, eds.,\u00a0\u00a0<em>Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion<\/em>(2012)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy Was There Even a Reformation in Lindau? 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