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associate professor, history of the wider world
Department of History
Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures
Simon Fraser University
M.A., Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley
A.B. (honors), History and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
A.A., German and Spanish, MiraCosta College
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academic interests
???????????? the history of all under heaven
the late-traditional world (ca. 1400 to 1800)
globalization and modernity
Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
mission, prophecy, mortality, ploughs, humour
primary
Courses Offered
HIST 130 Fundamentals of World History
HIST 254
China to 1800: Middle Kingdom in Global Perspective
HIST 300
Approaches to History
HIST 388
Christianity and Globalization
HIST 468
Problems in the History of Religion: Global Jesus
HIST 472
Problems in World History: The Early-Modern World
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Primary Publications
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Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions.
Cambridge University Press, 2008.
winner, Canadian Historical Association, Wallace K. Ferguson Prize
winner,
World History Association, Graduate Paper Prize (Chapter
10, "The
Jesuit Spiritual Economy")
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"Exploring
Periodization in the Classroom," co-authored with B. Marriott, History Compass
6 (2008): 1368-81.
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"Faith in Empire:
Religious Sources of Legitimacy for Expansionist Early-Modern States,???
in Politics and Reformations: Communities, Polities, Nations, and
Empires: Essays in
Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr., ed. C. Ocker, M. Printy, P. Starenko, and
P. Wallace (Leiden: Brill, 2007), 571-87.
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???Merchants, Migrants,
Missionaries, and Globalization in the Early-Modern Pacific,???
Journal of Global History 1.1 (2006): 51-58.
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