Dr. John Jordan
Curriculum Vitae
Historisches Institut, Universität Bern
Länggassstrasse 49
3000 Bern, Switzerland
[email protected]
Tel: +41 31 631 58 92
Professional
2013Postdoc, 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, 1580-1700; Graduate Assistant
In German
University of Bern
HS 2014
Politische Öffentlichkeit(en) im Europa des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts; Course
Director
Technical University of Dresden
WS 2011-12 Konfliktregulierung im Alltag der Frühen Neuzeit: Praktiken, Diskurse,
Methoden (together with Eric Piltz, Dresden); Course Director
Non-Academic Activity and Employment
2014Offensive Line Coach and Run Game Coordinator, Bern Grizzlies American
Football Team.
2012-13
Dellal and Martin Warden, Balliol College, University of Oxford
2008-09
M.A. Representative, Executive Committee, Canadian Centre for
German and European Studies, York University
2007
Student Adviser, Faculty of Health, York University
2005-07
Special Projects Assistant, Faculty Council Office, Atkinson College, York
University
References:
Prof. Dr. Lyndal Roper
Regius Professor of History
University of Oxford
[email protected]
Prof. Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff
Lehrstuhl Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Technische Universität Dresden
[email protected]
Prof. Dr. Thomas V. Cohen
Professor of History
York University
[email protected]
Prof. Dr. Kim Siebenhüner
SNF-Förderprofessorin
University of Bern
[email protected]