Geoffrey Dipple, PhD (Queen's), MA (Queen's), BA (Valparaiso)

Contact

Professor, Augustana - Social Sciences

Email: dipple@ualberta.ca

Overview

Research

My research focuses on a variety of topics in the history of early modern Europe, especially in the German-speaking lands at the time of the Protestant Reformation. Current research projects include a biography of the Spiritualist Anabaptist Hans Denck, and studies of literary and lived utopias during the sixteenth century and the development of lay, vernacular theology in the early years of the Reformation.

Teaching

I have taught a wide range of courses on the history of Europe from Classical Greece to western Europe at the end of the twentieth century. I also teach courses on the role of religion in political and social radicalism across the globe, and on genocides in the twentieth century.

Courses

AUCLA 224 - History of the Roman Empire

History of the Roman Empire from the time of Augustus to the fall of the west in the fifth century A.D. Note: Credit may be obtained for only one of AUCLA 224 and AUHIS 208.

Winter Term 2024

AUHIS 121 - Topics in Global History

Selected topic in global history. Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor and student interest.

Fall Term 2023 Winter Term 2024

AUHIS 208 - History of the Roman Empire

History of the Roman Empire from the time of Augustus to the fall of the West in the fifth century A.D. Note: Credit may be obtained for only one of AUHIS 208 and AUCLA 224.

Winter Term 2024

AUHIS 300 - Topics in European History

Advanced study of selected periods and themes in European history. Focus and content of each course vary from year to year. Topics are announced before registration.

Fall Term 2023

AUIDS 101 - First Year Seminar

Selected topics that highlight the interdisciplinary nature of the Liberal Arts and Sciences. This seminar-style class is the first course in Augustana's Core. The focus and content of each course are determined by faculty interests, and vary from year to year.

Fall Term 2023

AUIDS 401 - Advanced Integration Project

A project-based course which allows students to work in small interdisciplinary teams to propose a solution to a real-world issue with the support of a faculty advisor. Prerequisite: AUIDS 301.

Winter Term 2024

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Featured Publications

Spiritualist Anabaptism: Oxymoron or Redundancy?

Geoffrey Dipple

Mennnonite Quarterly Review. 2022 July; 96 (3):417-24

Spiritualist Anabaptists, in T&T Clark Handbook of Anabaptism, edited by Brian Brewer. London: T&T Clark, 2021

Geoffrey Dipple

2021 December;

Radical Spirits and Their Experiences, in Sister Reformations III – Schwesterreformationen III: From Reformation Movements to Reformation Churches in the Holy Roman Empire and on the British Isles – Von der reformatorischen Bewegung zur Kirche im Heiligen Römischen Reich und auf den britischen Inseln, edited by Dorothea Wendebourg, Euan Cameron, and Martin Ohst. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Geoffrey Dipple

2019 December;

Hans Denck, Hans Hut, and Caspar Schwenckfeld, in Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe, edited by Ronald Rittgers and Vincent Evener. Leiden: Brill.

Geoffrey Dipple

2019 January;

Anabaptists and Seventeenth-Century Arguments for Religious Toleration in Switzerland and the Netherlands, in Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance: Responses to Religious Pluralism in Reformation Europe, edited by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer and Victoria Christman. Leiden: Brill

Geoffrey Dipple

2018 January;