Timothy G. Pearson, PhD 460 Woodman Ave London, Ontario N5W 3Z9 timothy.pearson@gmail.com tpearso5@uwo.ca (519) 936-9495 Current Employment:! Academic!! Adjunct Professor!!! Department of Visual Arts!!! University of Western Ontario Consulting!! Timothy Pearson Editing and Research!!! Freelance Editing, Research and Translation services!!! www.timothypearsonediting.com Past Employment! 2010-12!! Assistant Professor of Canadian History!!! Wilson Institute for Canadian History!!! McMaster University, Hamilton, ON 2009-10!! Adjunct Professor!!! Department of History!!! University of Western Ontario, London, ON 2008-2010!! Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la!!! société et la culture), Département d histoire, Université de!!! Montréal; Director: Dominique Deslandres. Véritables Motifs: The!!! Dévots, Religion and Colonialism in Early Canada. An!!! examination of religious institutions, knowledge and!!! communications in New France and the developing French Atlantic!!! world of the seventeenth century. 2006-2007!! Administrative Assistant, French Atlantic History Group, McGill!!! University. 1
!!! Administered a $500,000 dollar Mellon Foundation research grant. Education: Ph.D.!!! Department of History, McGill University. (2008)!! Dissertation: Becoming Holy in Early Canada: Performance and!!! the Making of Holy Persons in Society and Culture. Advisors: Catherine Desbarats, John Zucchi Examination Fields: New France; History of Religion in Canada; Hagiographic Literature M.A.!!! Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. (2000)!!! Fields: Celtic Studies, Monasticism, Latin. B.A.h!!! Bishop s University, Lennoxville Quebec. (1998)!!! Honours History, Minor Classical Studies!!! Graduated with honours Publications: Books: Becoming Holy In Early Canada (forthcoming with McGill-Queen s University Press). Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals: Il n y a point de Missions en France : Missionnaires séculiers et l empire après la guerre de Sept Ans, Revue de l histoire de l Amérique Française 64.3-4 (2013): 145-174. It will be important to tell me the details of everything : Knowledge and Transatlantic Communication in the Sulpician Mission to Canada, 1675-1682, French Colonial History 12 (2011): 45-64. I willingly speak to you about her virtues : Catherine de Saint-Augustin and the Public Role of Female Holiness in Early New France, Journal of Church History 79, 2 (June 2010): 305-333. In the Eyes of the Children this was a Miracle : Sanctity in Nineteenth-Century Quebec, Historical Studies; The Journal of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association 70 (2004): 94-110. 2
Chapters in Books: Reading Rituals: Performance and Belief-Life in the Early Colonial Northeast, in Indigenous Encounters with Christianity. Edited by Tolly Bradford and Chelsea Horton (forthcoming, contracted with University of British Columbia Press). «Nous avons esté fait un spectacle aux yeux du monde»: performance, texte et création des martyrs au Canada, 1642-1652, De l'orient à la Huronie: du récit de pèlerinage au texte missionnaire. Edited by Guy Poirier, Marie-Christine Gomez- Géraud, et François Paré. (Québec: Les Presses de l Université Laval 211): 103-122. Reviews:! Tracy Neal Leavelle, The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and!! Indian North America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), in Canadian Historical Review 93.4 (2012): 673. Randall, Catharine, Editor. Black Robes and Buckskin: A Selection from the Jesuit!!! Relations (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011) in Renaissance Quarterly 64.3 (Fall 2011): 983-84.! Les Sulpiciens de Montréal : Une histoire de pouvoir et de discrétion, 1657-2007. Edited! by Dominique Deslandres, John A. Dickinson and Ollivier Hubert (Montréal: Fides, 2007) in Social History/Histoire Sociale, XLII, 83 (May 2009): 236-238. Greer, Allan, Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and The Jesuits (Oxford: Oxford! University Press, 2005) in MENS: Revue d histoire intellectuelle de l Amérique française vol. VII, 2 (2007): 352-358. De Religione: Telling the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Story in Huron to the Iroquois,! edited and translated by John L. Steckley (University of Oklahoma Press, 2004). Published by H-Canada (http://www.h-net.org/~canada/), February, 2005. Banks, Kenneth J. Chasing Empire across the Sea: Communications and the State in the! French Atlantic, 1713-1763 (McGill-Queen s University Press, 2002). Published by H-Canada (http://www.h-net.org/~canada/) and H-Atlantic (http://www.hnet.org/~atlantic/), June 2004. 3
Research Grants and Awards: Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University, Teaching Fellowship, 2010-12. Bourse post-doctorale, Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), Dec. 2007-Dec. 2009. Mary and Robert Stanfield Dissertation Fellowship, McGill University, 2006-07 Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec; Bourse doctorale, 2006-07. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC), 2004-2006. Bourse de Doctorat Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), 2003. McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) Fellowship, 2003-2004. McGill Graduate Studies Fellowship, 2002, 2003. Faculty of Arts Recruitment Award, McGill University, 2002. University of Toronto Open Fellowship, 2000. Conference Presentations: Domesticity and Male Monastic Living in New France: The Sulpician House of Montreal, French Colonial History Society, New Orleans, May 2012. There are no missions in France: Religion and State at the Crux of Empire, French Colonial Historical Society, University of Toronto, June 2011. Joseph/Onaharé, the Algonquins and Performances of Christian Martyrdom in Early New France, Religious Encounter and Exchange is Aboriginal Canada, SSHRC Workshop, University of Saskatchewan, May 11-14, 2011. A Community of Faith? Religion s Atlantic Ties from France to Canada, 1675-1765, French Atlantic Worlds, presented by the French Atlantic History Group, McGill University, 15-17 October 2009. Il sera important de me mander le détail de toutes choses, Knowledge, Trans- Atlantic Communication, and the Sulpician Mission to Montreal, 1675-1699, French Colonial History Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA. May 28-30, 2009. Un spectacle aux yeux du monde : Ritual Performance and Colonial Audiences in Early New France, 1625-1640, New Worlds, New Publics: Re(con)figuring Association and the Impact of European Expansion, 1500-1700, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. September 28-30, 2008. 4
Ce qu un religieux benedictin a souffert en Canada : The Jansenist Georges Poulet in the Atlantic World, 1713-1718, Canadian Historical Association meeting, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, BC. June 2, 2008. Nous avons esté fait un spectacle aux yeux du monde : Performance, Text, and the Making of the Canadian Martyrs, 1642-1652, From Asia to Huronia. Missionary Texts and Devotional Literature of the 16th and 17 th Centuries, Sainte- Marie among the Hurons Museum, Midland, On. September 27-29, 2007. Saints and the City: Holy Lives in Montreal and Quebec, 1836-1930. Canadian Historical Association meeting, York University, Toronto, On. May, 2006. The Jesuit, the Mystic and the Martyr: Sacred History and the Life of Catherine de Saint-Augustin. Story, Myth, Ritual and Art, The Eastern International Region Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, McGill University, Montreal, Qc. May 5-8, 2005. Sacred History and the Narrative of Holiness in the Life of Catherine de Saint- Augustin. Under Construction: History, Identities and Representation in the Study of Religion, Columbia University, New York, NY. March 30-April 1, 2005. Grace and Good Works: Jesuit Mission Teaching in the Relations, 1632-1650. Canadian Historical Association meeting, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB. June 3-5, 2004. Hagiography in the Canadian Context: The Difficulty of Interpreting the Very Full Sources. Building New Bridges: Sources, Methods and Interdisciplinarity, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. May 8-10, 2004. Hagiography as Ritual: Performing the Holy in Nineteenth Century Montreal. Bonds of Power/Bonds of Veneration, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Annual Graduate Student Conference, Montreal, QC. January 29, 2004. The Rhetoric of Conversion: Jansenism and Jesuit Missionary Teaching in North America, 1632-1670. 5th Annual UNB/UMaine Graduate Student History Conference, Fredericton, NB. October 17-18, 2003. 5
In the Eyes of the Children this was a Miracle: The Culture of Sanctity in 19th Century Quebec, Canadian Catholic Historical Association Annual Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. May 28-29, 2003. Employment Experience: Courses Taught McMaster University History 1BO3!! Global Encounters to 1900 History 2TO3!! Canada to 1885 History 3CW3!! Canada in a World of Empires, 1492-1919 History 3HP3!! Public History Practicum History 4CC3!! Canada: Peoples and Colonies in the Age of Empires History 4CE3!! Early Canadian History History 4CZ3!! Advanced Research in Early Canadian History University of Western Ontario History 3203E!! French Canada History 9812B!! The French Atlantic World, 1600-1800 (Graduate Seminar) McGill University History 357!!! Religion and Canadian Society in Historical Perspective Catholic Studies 370! The Lives of the Saints Invited Lectures and Talks: There are no missions in France : Missionaries, Acadia and the French Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century, Department of History, University of Western Ontario, London, ON., March 3, 2011. Art and Material Culture in New France, Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario, London, ON. Performing Holiness in Early New France: Asceticism and Community in the Acts of Catherine de Saint-Augustin, Lunch Time Lecture Series, Department of History, McGill University, Montreal, Qc. Missions and Holiness in Colonial Canada, Catholic Studies Discussion Group, McGill University, Montreal, Qc. 6
The Theological Roots of Jesuit Mission Teaching. McGill University History Departmental Workshop, Montreal, Qc. Service and Volunteer Work: Founder and Chair: London Cycle Group Volunteer, London Heritage Council, London Ontario Co-Chair of the Graduate Association of Students in History, Department of History, McGill University, 2005-06. Member of the History Departmental Graduate Funding Committee, Department of History, McGill University, 2005-2006. Council Member of the Graduate Association of Students in History, Department of History, McGill University, 2003-2007. Search Committee member, Early Modern Britain, Department of History, McGill University, 2004. Co-President of the Canadian Studies Graduate Student Association, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University, 2003-2004. 7