{"id":219,"date":"2017-04-02T20:28:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T20:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsterdamnified.dutchdissenters.net\/wp\/?page_id=219"},"modified":"2018-05-17T00:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T00:06:30","slug":"mike-driedger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amsterdamnified.com\/project\/mike-driedger\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Driedger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mike Driedger<\/strong> is a widely acknowledged expert on European Anabaptists and Mennonites from the 16<sup>th<\/sup> to the early 19<sup>th<\/sup> centuries. His revised and published dissertation on the Mennonite minority in Lutheran-dominated Hamburg in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> century (<em>Obedient Heretics<\/em>) was short-listed for the 2003 Wallace K. Ferguson Book Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. After establishing his teaching career, he worked in the late 2000s on several projects that resulted in numerous essays, including several overviews of Anabaptist and dissenter historiography for audiences of early modern historians and students, as well as two longer texts: 1) a co-authored book that provides an important reinterpretation of Anabaptist rule in the early 16<sup>th<\/sup>-century city of M\u00fcnster (a case study that is often cited \u2013 even in contemporary terrorism studies \u2013 but is understood poorly by Reformation historians and most other commentators alike); and 2) a co-edited essay collection featuring the latest in scholarship on early modern Anabaptism. In recent years his research project on the important and even leading (but now largely forgotten) role that many Mennonites played in the Dutch high Enlightenment and Dutch revolutionary activity of the 1780s and 1790s has won him funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (2007) and the SSHRC (&#8220;Mennonite\u00a0revolutionaries: religion, enlightenment and radical politics in early\u00a0modern Holland,&#8221; 2010-2013). He has recently presented at conferences in Amsterdam, Groningen, London, Jerusalem, and Utrecht.<\/p>\n<p>For the \u201cAmsterdamnified!\u201d project Driedger will play several roles. First, as the project\u2019s expert on both Mennonites and the later Enlightenment, he will provide a broadening and long-term perspective. Secondly, for his research on his most recent SSHRC project on Mennonite revolutionaries Driedger developed significant knowledge and skills in tracking intellectual, business and family networks in the early modern Dutch Republic, and he has published several essays and presented numerous papers on Mennonite associational activities in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> and 18<sup>th<\/sup> centuries. He has already done significant preliminary research on late 16<sup>th<\/sup>-century and 17<sup>th<\/sup>-century Dutch dissident publishers, ground-work that will help the new collaborative research project get off to a quick start. Thirdly, he has published several articles\/book chapters that examine the entanglements and structural parallels between early modern Jews and Mennonites. This work includes an essay on Collegiant-Mennonites in Spinoza\u2019s immediate circle in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> century. Finally, he has spent considerable time in the last three years developing skills for the use of digital analytical and visualization tools (e.g., tools for text analysis, timeline construction, spatial and network mapping, genealogical charting). As part of this work he has developed a Dutch \u201cstop-word\u201d list that includes early modern Dutch spelling word variants; this tool will make possible the keyword analysis and visualization of key digitalized texts. Driedger will coordinate the database and online components of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Driedger teaches history at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":394,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-219","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P60hRC-3x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsterdamnified.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsterdamnified.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsterdamnified.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsterdamnified.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsterdamnified.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amsterdamnified.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/amsterdamnified.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsterdamnified.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsterdamnified.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}