Curriculum Vitae J. R. D. FALCONER (W) 780-633-3640 ∙ [email protected] 7-353H ∙ Department of Humanities ∙ Grant MacEwan University ∙ City Centre Campus 10700 – 104 Avenue ∙ Edmonton, AB, T5J 4S2 ∙ Canada Education: Ph.D. History. University of Guelph, 2005 Dissertation Title: “Community, Conflict & Control: The Burgh of Aberdeen 1542-1603.” Dissertation Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Ewan; Master of Arts, History. University of Alberta, 1999 Thesis Title: “Perceiving the Scottish Self: The Emergence of National Identity in Mediaeval Scotland.” Thesis Supervisor: Professor John Langdon Bachelor of Arts in History with First Class Honours. University of Alberta, 1997 Academic Appointments Associate Professor, Humanities Department, Grant MacEwan University (2013-present) Assistant Professor, Humanities Department, Grant MacEwan University (2007-2013) Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta (2009-2012) Assistant Professor of Early Modern European History, Department of History, University of Windsor (2005-2006) Administrative Appointments: History Discipline Coordinator, Grant MacEwan University (2010-2013) Refereed Publications: Monographs Crime and Community in Reformation Scotland: Negotiating Power in a Burgh Society (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013) Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters in Collected Editions: “Surveying Scotland’s Urban Past: The Pre-Modern Burgh. “History Compass Vol. 9, No. 1 (2011), pp. 34- 44. “'Mony Utheris Divars Odious Crymes’: Women, Petty Crime and Power in Later Sixteenth Century Aberdeen” Crimes and Misdemeanours; Deviance and the law in historical perspective, Vol. 4, No. 1 (March, 2010), pp. 7- 36. “A Family Affair: Households, misbehaving and the community in sixteenth-century Aberdeen” in Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland edited by Janay Nugent and Elizabeth Ewan (Ashgate, 2008), pp. 139-150. “Boom and Bust: Building Investment on the Bishop of Winchester’s Estate in the Early Fourteenth century” co- authored with J. Langdon & Jill Walker, The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society, ed. R. H. Britnell (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2003), pp. 139-156. “Cornering the Cheshire Cat: Reflections on the ‘New British History’ and studies in Early Modern British Identities” co-authored with Richard Connors, Canadian Journal of History, XXXVI (April 2001), pp. 1 85-108. Articles in Progress: “Disorderly Households?: Home-making and Law-breaking in Early Modern Scotland” submitted to Journal of British Studies (Currently under review) Book Reviews: Childhood and Emotion: Across Cultures 1450-1800 edited by Claudia Jarzebowski & Thomas Max Safley (New York & London: Routledge, 2014), Journal of Family History (forthcoming) Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660-1688 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), Sixteenth- Century Journal (Forthcoming) Familia and Household in the Medieval Atlantic World by B. Hudson (Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011), Scotia, Vol. XXXVI (2014), pp. 31-34 Records of the Convention of Royal Burghs, 1555; 1631-1648 edited by A. MacDonald and M. Veerschuur (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2009), Scottish Historical Review , Vo. 93, No. 2 (2014), pp. 296-298 Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534- 1590 by James Murray (Cambridge: CUP, 2009), Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme ,Vol 36, No 1 (2013), pp. 187-88 Sixteenth-Century Scotland: Essays in Honour of Michael Lynch edited by Julian Goodare & Alasdair A. MacDonald (Leiden: Brill, 2009) International Review of Scottish Studies, Vol. 34, 2009, pp. 176-178 Kinship and Clientage: Highland Clanship1451-1609 by Alison Cathcart (Leiden: Brill, 2006) Journal of British Studies/ Albion, Vol. 47, No. 2 (April 2008), pp. 404-405 The Kingdom of the Scots AND Kingship and Unity by G. W. S. Barrow (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003), Sixteenth-Century Journal, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 510-512 Scotland and Europe: The Medieval Kingdom and its Contacts with Christendom, 1214-1560 by David Ditchburn Sixteenth-Century Journal, Vol. XXXV, No. 2 (Summer, 2004), pp. 614-615 Women in Scotland c. 1100- c. 1750 edited by Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen Meikle (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000) Scottish Tradition, Vol. 27 (September 2002), pp. 133-135 The Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots by Dauvit Broun (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1999) Scottish Tradition, Vol. 25 (January 2001), pp. 113-121 Conference Presentations “‘Believing na evill nor injury’: Urban households and petty crimes in early modern Scotland” paper to be presented at the North American Conference on British Studies, Little Rock, AR, USA, November 13-15, 2015 “‘Restored to the ordor of discipline:’ order and justice in early modern Scottish burghs” to be presented at the North East Conference on British Studies, Ottawa, ON, CAN, October 16-17, 2015 “Disorderly Households?: Home-making and Law Breaking in early modern Scotland,” paper to be presented at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA, Oct. 16-19, 2014 "Building familial bonds? Servants and Inter-familial Violence in Scottish Burghs, 1540-1625" paper presented at the Western Conference on British Studies, Calgary, AB, Canada, October 4, 2014. “Disorderly Households: petty crimes in early modern Scottish burghs,” paper presented at the North American Conference on British Studies, Portland, OR, USA, November 7-10, 2013 “Crime, Poverty and the Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion in late sixteenth-century Aberdeen,” paper presented at the North American Conference on British Studies, Baltimore, MD, USA, Nov. 11-14, 2010 ‘“Other slanders, detractors, and staning:’ women, crime and power in later sixteenth-century Aberdeen.” paper presented at Women and Crime in Britain and North America since 1500 2 held in Lyon, France, 11-13 September 2008 “‘The Common Weal of the Burgh:’ Poverty, Productivity and Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sixteenth- Century Aberdeen” paper presented at the North American Conference on British Studies held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), 29-31 October 2004 “The King’s Probi Homines: Scottish Settlement and regnal unity 1124-1216” paper presented at Re- Inventing the Scottish Tradition held at the University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, 28 September 2002 “Consent, Continuity & Custom: Monarchy and Identity in Scotland, 1124-1328” paper presented at Political Identities in Britain and Western Europe, 1200-1500 A Conference at the University of Durham, Hatfield College, Durham (UK), 28-30 August 2001 Public Paper Presentations “Community, Conflict and Control: The social meaning behind petty crime in later sixteenth-century Aberdeen” paper presented as part of the Faculty Research & Scholarly Activity Showcase Series at MacEwan University, 16 November 2012 “Resing Schism and Seditioune in the Bowalls of the Communite:” Community, Conflict and Control in Sxiteenth-Century Aberdeen,” paper presented at the Humanities Speaker Series, Grant MacEwan University, 21 January 2011 “Apocalypse Now: The World of Albrecht Dürer,” paper presented at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. 10 October 2008 Research & Teaching Interests: Gender and society in medieval and early modern Scotland Social power, criminality and social control in early modern towns Poverty and poor relief in sixteenth-century Scotland Power structures, nation formation and national consciousness in pre-modern Scotland Academic Fellowships, Awards and Honours 2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Institutional Grant 2014 MacEwan University Research, Scholarly Activity and Creative Achievements Fund (RSACAF) 2013: SSHRC Institutional Grant 2013: Grant MacEwan University Faculty of Arts and Science Research Fund 2013: Grant MacEwan University RSACAF 2011: Grant MacEwan University RSACAF 2010: Grant MacEwan University RSACAF 2008: Grant MacEwan College RSACAF 2007: Grant MacEwan College RSACAF 2002 Doctoral Fellowship, SSHRC (2 years) 2002 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), Ontario Ministry of Education and Training, (declined) 2001 OGS, Ontario Ministry of Education and Training, (accepted) 2000 Overseas Research Students Award Scheme (ORS), Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom, University of Edinburgh (declined) (3 years) Entrance Scholarship, Department of History, University of Guelph 1999 Overseas Research Students Award Scheme (ORS), Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom, University of Edinburgh (declined) University of Edinburgh Doctoral Bursary, University of Edinburgh, (declined) 3 Entrance Scholarship, Department of History, University of Guelph, (declined) Teaching Experience Grant MacEwan University (2006-present) History 100: Introduction to History; History 110: Premodern World History; History 111: The Early Modern World; History 205: Medieval Europe; History 208: Europe in the Later Middle Ages; History 209: Early Modern Europe; History 211: The British Isles from 1450-1714; History 307: Renaissance Europe; History 308: Europe in the Age of Reformation; History 309: Crime and Poverty in Early Modern Europe; History 311: The Social History of Britain (1450-1707); History 312: Scotland before Union, 1707; History 411: Topics in British History: From Braveheart to Trainspotting; History 411: Topics in British