Dr Peter Sherlock
| Dean of the United Faculty of Theology | |
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| Email: | sherlock@unimelb.edu.au dean@uft.unimelb.edu.au |
| Website: | www.uft.unimelb.edu.au |
| Location: | 1 Morrison Close Parkville VIC 3052 |
| Academic Profile | |
Biography
Peter Sherlock is the Dean of the United Faculty of Theology in the Melbourne College of Divinity, and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Historical Studies. Peter graduated BA (Hons) in 1995 and MA in 1997 from the University of Melbourne. From 1997 to 2000 was a Commonwealth Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was awarded his DPhil in 2000. From 2001 to 2004 he was a Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne, teaching medieval and early modern European history, British imperial and colonial history, and a range of thematic and theoretical subjects. From 2004 to 2008 he was an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in Historical Studies. In 2008 he was appointed Dean of the UFT where he continues to be research active in the fields of early modern British, gender, and religious history. His current research project is a history of the monuments of Westminster Abbey.
Recent publications
2008
- Peter Sherlock, Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England (Ashgate)
- Megan Cassidy-Welch and Peter Sherlock (eds), Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Brepols: Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 11)
- Peter Sherlock, ‘Patriarchal Memory: Monuments in Early Modern England’ in Cassidy-Welch and Sherlock, Practices of Gender
- Peter Sherlock, ‘The Politics of Agency: An Agenda for Historians of Missions and Colonialism’ in A. Barry, A. Brown-May, J. Cruickshank and P. Grimshaw (eds), Evangelists of Empire? Missionaries in Colonial History, e-Scholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne
- Peter Sherlock, ‘“Leave it to the Women”: The Exclusion of Women from Anglican Church Government in Australia’, Australian Historical Studies, forthcoming
- Peter Sherlock, ‘The Reformation of Memory in Early Modern Europe’ in B. Schwarz and S. Radstone, Mapping Memory, Fordham University Press, forthcoming
2007
- Peter Sherlock, ‘The Monuments of Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart: King James and the Manipulation of Memory’, in Journal of British Studies, 46, 263-89