Waite, Gary
Gary Waite is currently a Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick. While focusing primarily on the history of popular culture and religion in early-modern Europe, his interests are eclectic, ranging from the study of the import of individual radical reformers such as David Joris, to the analysis of the vernacular Dutch drama societies called the Chambers of Rhetoric and their involvement in religious reform, to the study of the Reformation and the revival of witch-hunting in the sixteenth century. In particular, Dr. Waite seeks to find connections within and between sub-fields of history, such as Anabaptism and witchcraft, or drama and religion, that have often been neglected. While continuing to look for intersections in the Reformation and demonology/witchcraft fields, he has recently completed a research program on popular attitudes toward Jews and Muslims in the vernacular literature of western Europe in the seventeenth century. He is now engaged in a new research project: “Amsterdamnified! Religious Dissenters, Spiritualist Ideas and Urban Associationalism in the Emergence of the Early Enlightenment in England and the Low Countries, 1540-1700,” with Michael Driedger, Brock University.
Research Interests: Radical Religion and Early Enlightenment
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of New Brunswick |
| Fields of Expertise: | Historical Injustice and Trauma Memory Politics Public History |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | waite@unb.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse: From Religious Enemies to Allies and Friends. London: Routledge Press, 2019. Co-Editor, with Jesse Spohnholz, Exile and Religious Identities, 1500-1800. London: Pickering & Chatto Press, June 2014. Co-Editor, with Els Kloek, Marion Kobelt-Groch, Mirjam van Veen, Piet Visser, and Anna Voolstra, Myth and Reality of Anabaptist / Mennonite Women, c. 1525-1900, Brill’s Series in Church History. Leiden: E.J. Brill, September 2014. Assistant co-editor with Michael Driedger, Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic: Studies presented to Piet Visser on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, August den Hollander, Alex Noord, Mirjam van Veen and Anna Voolstra, eds. Brill’s Series in Church History 67. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2014. “Religieuze non-conformisten in Nederland over geneeskunde, magie en de duivel” (Dutch Religious Nonconformists on Medicine, Magic, and the Devil: A Reconsideration), Doopsgezinde Bijdragen, 45(2019), 97-122. Translated by Mirjam van Veen. “The Chambers of Rhetoric as Agents of Communication and Change in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands,” e-Humanista: Journal of Iberian Studies, 39 (2018), 436-46, Monographic Issue 3, on Drama and the Reformation, ed. Javier Espejo Surós. With Willem de Bakker, “Rethinking the Murky World of the Post-Münster Dutch Anabaptist Movement, 1535-1538: A Dialogue between Willem de Bakker and Gary K. Waite,” Mennonite Quarterly Review 92 (January 2018), 47-91. “David Joris (1501-1556). “Kunstenaar en profeet van de hernieuwde zintuigen,” Doopsgezinde Bijdragen, 43 (2017), 15-40. “Pieter Jansz Twisck on David Joris: A Conservative Mennonite and an Unconventional Spiritualist,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 91 (2017), 371-402. “‘Proeuet alle dinck, ende dat goede behoud’: Het wetenschappelijke werk van Professor Dr. Piet Visser,” special edition of the Doopsgezinde Bijdragen, Opgedragen aan Professor Dr. Piet Visser bij zijn afscheid als Hoogleraar Geschiedenis van het Doperdom en aanverwante stromingen aan de Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid van de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam en het Doopsgezind Seminarie, eds. Jelle Bosma and Anna Voolstra, 40 (2014), 21-45. |
