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Jonathan Reid

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  • Sixteeenth Century Society & Conference Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize Committtee, which awards a prize for the best article in Sixteenth Century French History during the previous calendar Year. Member since Jan. 2021, chair 2022; 2024. 2020 - 2025
  • Annual Hunter Lecture at the South Central Renaissnce Conference I organized the annual plenary "Hunter Lecture" at the South Central Renaissance Conference to be held in Savannah, GA, April, 2024. Having graciously accepted my invitation, Professor of History, Katherine "Kay" Edwards, University of South Carolina, will give a lecture on her research on belief in ghosts across Europe from the late medieval periods to 1800. 2023
  • Prof. Thomas Herron NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant "Castle to Classrooms: developing an Irish Castle in Virtual Reality" Summer 2023: further critical feedback in reaction to review of Stage 3 DH NEH grant that was not funded Spring 2023.2022-2023: I reviewed and gave critical feedback on Prof. Herron's draft for a Stage 3 DH grant from NEH building on his successfully won and completed stage 2 NEH grant. Submitted January 2023.I serve on his board of advisors. Prof. Herron was awarded the $100,000+ grant in July 2020. In 2021-22 UI have advised him on working towards submission of a final (next) Stage III grand to the NEH to further develop deliverable, extensible digital humanities projects. To that end, we are hosing one of his co-PI's, Vicki McAlister, March 23, on campus at ECU to give an demonstration of her public-facing scholarship as a public historian using Virtual Realithy to engage studends and popular audiences. 2019 - 2022
  • Explorations in Renaissance Culture Each year the editor-in-chief, Thomas Herron to 2017, and Andrew J. Fleck since 2018 and I as "Assistant" second editor produce two issues, averaging of 8 to 10 articles (220-250 pages) total, including 1 review article (peer reviewed) commissioned by us. The acceptance rate for submissions is 22-25%. We the editors vet all submissions before sending worthy ones out for review, and occasionally also serve as formal reviewers when the submission is in our area of specialty. We determine whether to accept articles or send them back for revisions based on peer review. We help to shape articles accepted for publication based on reader's comments. Wee do all copy-editing and proofing, as well as help with promotion, coordinate with the publisher, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands (see below). We also solicit submissions and represent the journal at academic conferences. In 2013-2014, as part of our efforts to improve the journal, I took the lead in soliciting offers from major academic presses to take over production. Brill Academic Press, UNC Press, and Maney Publishers made offers. On April. 4, 2014, the board of the South Central Renaissance Conference, the copyright holding parent organization, approved the Brill offer, which was ratified by a vote of the society's members on April 5, 2015. 2022
  • Wrote cover jacket blurb for Timothy Scheuer, Consciences and the Reformation: Scruples over Oaths and Confessions in the Era of Calvin and His Contemporaries (Oxford: Oxfort University Press, forthcoming) By invitation, I contributed a positive blurb for the work based on my review of the pre-publication draft. 2022
  • Assoc. Prof. Anne-Hélène Miller, Marco Institute, University of Tennessee MRST lecture 2021
  • Prof. Thomas Herron (English), East Carolina Unversity Reviewed a pre-submission draft of his article, "The place of reading in VR: Pedagogy, Spenser's Kilcolman Castle and Amoretti 65" Jan 2021 accepted for publication in the new journal New Technologies in Renaissance Studies. 2019 - 2020
  • Prof. Tim Kircher, Guilford College, MRST Guest Lecture 2020
  • Prof. Mary McKinley, University of Virginia I advised Prof. McKinley on the literary patronage of Marguerite de Navarre, for her introduction to her new translation of Marguerite's Heptaméron (Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern History: The Toronoto Series, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) Press 2019 - 2020
  • Prof. Michael Bruening, Missouri University of Science and Technology I reviewed and advised Prof. Bruening on a chapter of his manuscript monography, which, Summer 2020, was accepted by Oxford University Press for publication. 2019 - 2020
  • French Historical Studies Elected to the editorial board of FHS, ;one of the leading journals in the field of early modern European and French history, at the annual meeting of the host society March 2018. Summer 2018-Spring 2019: several article manuscripts reviewed. Participation in Editorial board online extended meeting Summer 2020. 2017 - 2020
  • Society for Reformation Research I am served a three-year term on the SRR Nominating Committee with board membersihp, as committee chair in 2020. 2017 - 2020
  • Society for French Historica Studies Helped to organize panel 27 "Negotiating Boundaries of Belonging: Language, Gender, and Religious Dissent." 2019
  • Dean Grey Warrington, 1576 'Geneva' Bible in English with Virgina colony inscriptions I tried to decipher inscirptions in ;John White's Bible Dated 1597 and possible later, that may relate to events in the Virginia Colony. Partially successful, I gave Mr. Warrington advice abou where to pursue furtehr expertise. 2018
  • Applications of Natalie Szczech and Marie Baral-Barron for research status in the Université de France I serve as 'garant,' expert witness on the quality and scholarly interest of the research projects of two applicants,Natalie Szczech and Marie Baral-Barron, for admission to and funding from the Université de France. 2018
  • Paris Institiute for Advanced Studies I evaluated a fellowship application to the Paris IAS. 2018
  • Sixteenth Century Studies Conference Organized panel for inclusion in a series of panels on "Transnational Reformations" sponsored by the Society for Reformation Research at the annual Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Oct. 2018. 2017 - 2018
  • 2017-2018 History Department Brewster Lecture I presented the guest speaker, Prof. Brad Gregory, University of Notre Dame. 2017
  • Dr. David Noe Letter for recommentation for Dr. David Noe, for a small grant application to the Cavlin Calvin Center for Christian Learning in support of his translation project of John Cavlin's 1537 Epistolae duae. 2017
  • Kaylyn Self, Kent State University Undergraduate Research project on journal publishing. 2017
  • Monumental Struggles -- a faculty-student roundtable I organized the roundtable for faculty and students on controversies over monuments involving: ;Profs. Susanne Jones, Gerald Prokopowicz, John Tucker, Ken Wilburn, Karin Zipf, and special guest Stuart Kinsella. 2017
  • Object Lessons -- a digital humanities workshop Letter of recommendation for Prof. Thomas Herron for inclusion of his project "Centering Spenser: A Digial Resource for Kilcolman Castle" for inclusion in the workship. 2016
  • Brill Academic Publishers I reviewed a volume of 20 single-author articles, 515 pages, entitled 'Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature.' Submitted, Sept. 5, 2016 2016
  • Camargo Foundation ;Letter of recommendation for Professor Michael Monheit for a Camargo Foundation residential fellowship. 2015
  • Mid-Atlantic Renaissance and Reformation Seminar C0-organized and hosted the conference at ECU. Served as paper review panel and presided over two sessions. 2004
  • Heiko A. Oberman Memorial Chair Endowment Campaign, University of Arizona As a volunteer adviser to the endowment campaign, I organized and conducted a solicitation drive in support of the Oberman Chair during these years. 2007-2008: Success -- At long last with authorization from administration, the search for the chair is on. Final candidates are being interviewed April 2008. 2001 - 2004

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