Dr. John Jordan Curriculum Vitae

Dr. John Jordan Curriculum Vitae

Dr. John Jordan Curriculum Vitae Historisches Institut, Universität Bern [email protected] Länggassstrasse 49 Tel: +41 31 631 58 92 3000 Bern, Switzerland Professional 2013- Postdoc, Historisches Institut, University of Bern. SNF-Research Project, “Textiles and material culture in transition: consumption, cultural innovation and global interaction.” Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kim Siebenhüner. Personal Subproject, “Winds of Change?: Consumer Society and Daily Life in early modern Switzerland.” 2014 Assistent, Institute of History, University of Bern, Academic Positions Education 2009-2013 Ph.D., Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lyndal Roper. Thesis Title: Legal culture in a turbulent time: law and society in early modern Saxony 2007-09 M.A., Department of History, York University, Toronto, Canada. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas V. Cohen. Major Research Paper: Adultery in Southwest Germany: The Cases of Catharina Holzhauser and Magdalena Maurer. 2007-09 Graduate Diploma in German and European Studies, Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, York University 2002-07 B.A., Specialized Honours, Department of History, York University 2003-07 B.Ed., Intermediate and Senior Education (Grades 7 to 12), Faculty of Education, York University Affiliations 2010-12 Instructor and Visiting Graduate Student, Technical University of Dresden. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff 2008-09 Visiting Graduate Student, Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen 2006 Exchange Student, Pädagogischen-Hochschule Freiburg Language Proficiency English (native language), German (reading and writing), Italian (reading), French (basic), Latin (basic) Publications: Articles / Book Chapters “Rethinking Disputes and Settlements: How Historians Can Use Legal Anthropology” in Laura Kounine and Stephen Cummins (eds.), Cultures of Conflict Resolution in early modern Europe (Ashgate, forthcoming 2015). Book Reviews Marco Mostert and Anna Adamska, eds., Writing and the Administration of Medieval Towns: Medieval Urban Literacy I. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014) in Urban History (forthcoming 2015). Lauren Benton and Richard Ross, eds., Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 (New York: New York University Press, 2013), in English Historical Review (forthcoming 2015). Maria Boes, Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany: Courts and Adjudicatory Practices in Frankfurt am Main, 1562-1696 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), in Continuity and Change (August 2014), Vol. 29.2. Gerd Schwerhoff and Alex Kästner, eds., Göttlicher Zorn und menschliches Maß: Religiöse Abweichung in frühneuzeitlichen Stadtgemeinschaften (Constance: UVK, 2013), in German History (September 2014), Vol 32.3. Joel F. Harrington, The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), in Sixteenth Century Journal (Summer 2014), Vol. 45.2. William Bradford Smith: Reformation and the German Territorial State: Upper Franconia, 1300-1630, Rochester, NY, 2008, in English Historical Review (August 2012), Vol. 527. Translations “Abstract (English Summary),” Alexander Kästner, Tödliche Geschichte(n). Selbsttötungen in Kursachsen im Spannungsfeld von Normen und Praktiken, 1547-1815 (UVK: Constance, 2012). Conference Reports (with Gabi Schopf), Inventories of Textiles, Textiles in Inventories Workshop, University of Vienna, March 2014. H-Soz-Kult, June 2014. Memberships German Historical Society Renaissance Society of America Sixteenth Century Society Conferences and Papers “Auf der Suche nach „Indienne“ – Konsumgesellschaft und Alltagsleben im frühneuzeitlichen Bern.” Paper to be presented at the Arbeitstagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Frühe Neuzeit, Globale Verflechtungen – Europa neu denken, Heidelberg, September 2015. “Legal Knowledge in the Administration of Justice: A Saxon perspective.” Paper to be presented at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin, March 2015 (session organiser: The Role of Learned Knowledge in Civic Government). (With Gabi Schopf), “Engaging with the global on a local level: Naming Indian Cottons in the German-Speaking World.” Paper to be presented at Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär: Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany, Vanderbilt University, March 2015. “Lost Possessions: Finding textiles in early modern Bern.” Paper presented at the Colloquium – Neuere Geschichte, University of Bern, November 2014. “Keeping the Peace: the use of guarantors in early modern Saxony.” Paper presented at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, New Orleans, October 2014 (session organiser: Outside the Court: Law in Daily Life). “No Mere Gambit: Resolving Conflicts through the Court in the sixteenth-century Freiberg.” Paper presented at the European Association of Urban History bi-annual conference, Lisbon, September 2014. “Bridging the Gaps: Die Rechtspraxis der Bürgschaft.” Paper presented at Kolloquium zu Kriminalität und Strafjustiz in Vormoderne und Moderne, Evangelische Akademie Meißen, June 2014. (With Gabi Schopf), “Desirable novelties? The trade and consumption of printed cottons in early modern Switzerland.” Paper presented at the Workshop, “Objects of Desire,” University of Basel, May 2014. “Social networks, capital, and collateral in early modern Saxony.” Paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, April 2014. (With Gabi Schopf), “Cottons and Indiennes in early modern Swiss inventories.” Paper presented at the Inventories of Textiles, Textiles in Inventories Workshop, University of Vienna, March 2014 (invited speaker). “Soziale Netzwerke, Kapital und Sicherheit: Die Bürgschaft im frühneuzeitlichen Sachsen.” Paper presented at the Colloquium – Neuere Geschichte, University of Bern, November 2013. “The Court on the Market Square: Legal Culture in Public Places.” Paper presented at the Oxford-Munster-Princeton Workshop in Early Modern History, Princeton University, May 2013 (invited speaker). “The Buchfurer case: lending as an economic and social activity in sixteenth-century Freiberg.” Paper presented at the Social and Economic History Seminar, University of Oxford, February 2013. “Absicherung in einer unsicheren Welt. Zum unterschiedlichen Gebrauch von Bürgen im frühneuzeitlichen Sachsen.” Paper presented to the Frühneuzeitliche Kolloquium, Technical University of Dresden, December 2012 (invited speaker). “How Saxons buried the hatchet: law and violence in the sixteenth century.” Paper presented at the Early Modern Europe Seminar Series, University of Oxford, November 2012. “Brawling, quarreling, and insulting: the civic processing of disputes in sixteenth-century Saxony.” Paper presented at the European Association of Urban History bi-annual conference, Prague, August 2012. “Pledging Haus und Hof: Borrowing and Lending in sixteenth-century Freiberg.” Paper presented to the Frühneuzeitliche Kolloquium, Technical University of Dresden, June 2012. “Placing Bürgen in early modern legal culture.” Paper presented at the conference “Cultures of Conflict Resolution in early modern Europe,” University of Cambridge, May 2012. “Baking bread with Michael Drechssler: the Role of Time in the Management of Disputes.” Paper presented to the Frühneuzeitliche Kolloquium, Technical University of Dresden, November 2011. “Urfehde and the Evolution of Court Procedure in Sixteenth-Century Freiberg, Saxony.” Paper presented at the Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, German Historical Institute. Washington DC, May 2011 (invited speaker). “What is Legal Anthropology, and Why is it Important for the History of Disputes and Norms?” Paper presented to the Kolloquium zu Problemen der sächsischen Landesgeschichte, der Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit und der Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte at the Technical University of Dresden, January 2011. “The Law and the Courts: Legal Anthropology in a Saxon Context.” Paper delivered to the Early Modern History Workshop, University of Oxford, May 2010. Awards/Grants 2011-12 Hanseatic Scholarship (Alfred Toepfer Stiftung), held at the Technical University of Dresden 2011 Participant at the German Historical Institute’s Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in Washington DC (award included airfare and expenses in Washington) 2010-11 DAAD Ten Month Research Grant for PhD Students and Postdocs, held at the Technical University of Dresden 2008-09 Landesstiftung Stipendium, Baden-Württemberg, held at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen 2008-09 Vernon Oliver Stong Graduate Scholarship in German & European Studies, York University 2008-09 Joseph Webber Memorial Fund for International Education scholarship, held at Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen 2008-09 Ontario International Education Opportunity Scholarship, held at Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen/York University 2008-09 Baden-Wurttemberg Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst (MWFK) Stipendium, held at Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen 2007-08 York University, M.A. Entrance Fellowship (tuition bursary and $10,000) 2006-07 Best Undergraduate History Essay Nominee, Department of History, York University 2006-07 Landesstiftung Stipendium, Baden-Württemberg, held at Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg 2006-07 York University, Letter of Recognition for International Experience Teaching Experience In English University of Bern FS 2015 Sex, Love, and Marriage in early modern Europe (1400-1800); Course Director University of Oxford Trinity 2013 Witch-craft and witch-hunting in early modern Europe; Teaching Assistant Hilary 2012 Court Culture and Art in early modern Europe,

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