Peter A. Goddard
Associate Professor
College of Arts, Department of History
Education
D.Phil. Oxford University, 1990
B.A. University of British Columbia, 1983
Professional
Tri-University Graduate Program in History, Director, 2022-2025
University of Guelph, Department of History, Interim Chair, 2021-2022
University of Guelph, Department of History, Chair, 2008-2013
University of Guelph, Department of History, Professor, 1991-
University of Ottawa, Institute des études Canadiennes, 2004-2005
Université Laval, Québec, Chercheur Invité, Centre des
Études sur la Littérature, les Arts, et les Traditions (CÉLAT),
Winter 1998
University of Saskatchewan, 1990-1991
Research
early modern French religious, cultural and intellectual
early modern theories of origins
early modern missionary activity
Areas of research for graduate supervision:
early modern France
missionary encounters with aboriginal peoples 1500-1700
reformation history
early modern science and skepticism
Publications
“The Amerindian in Divine History: The Limits of Biblical Authority in the Jesuit Mission to New France, 1632-1649,” in Mark Vessey, Sharon Betcher, Robert A. Daum, and Harry O. Maier, ed., The Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historical Present (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011): 253-273.
"Two Kinds of Conversion ('Medieval' and 'Modern') among the Hurons of New France," in Spiritual Conversion: the Christian Mission in the Colonial Americas, edited by James Muldoon (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2004): 57-77.
"Champlain's Legacy," The Beaver 83 (2003): 7-8.
"Canada in Early Modern Jesuit Thought: Backwater or Opportunity?," in Decentering the Renaissance: New Essays on Canada 1500-1700, edited by Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny (University of Toronto Press, 2002): 186-199.
"Augustine and the Amerindians in Seventeenth-century New France," in Church History 67, no. 4 (1998): 662-681.
"Converting the ‘sauvage': Jesuit and Montagnais in 17th-century New France," Catholic Historical Review 84 (1998): 219-239.
"The Devil in New France: Jesuit demonology 1611-1650," Canadian Historical Review 78 (1997): 40-61.
"Science and Skepticism in the Early Mission to New France," Canadian Historical Association Journal 6 (1996): 43-58.
"Paul Le Jeune: Anthropology and the Problematics of Post-Tridentine Conversion," Proceedings of the French Colonial History Society 1992 (Cleveland, 1993), 14-25.