Peter Arnade
Peter Arnade
Peter Arnade is an American historian and academic administrator. He currently serves as Dean of the College of Arts, Languages and Letters at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he is also a Professor of History. His scholarship focuses on urban politics, ritual culture, and imperial rivalry in the late medieval and early modern periods, with particular expertise in the Low Countries.[1]
Education
Arnade earned his Ph.D. in History from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1992. He holds an M.A. from New York University and a B.A. from New College.[1]
Academic Career
From 1992 to 2012, Arnade was a faculty member at California State University San Marcos, where he served as Chair of the History Department, Director of General Education, and Chair of the Faculty.[1] In 2012, he joined the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities and later became the founding Dean of the College of Arts, Languages and Letters in 2020.[1]
Research
Arnade’s work centers on the political culture and urban life of the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands. His research often explores the intersection of ritual, violence, and identity in the formation of early modern civic and imperial communities. His current projects include a critical edition of fifteenth-century pardon letters and a study of imperial competition among the Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese in the Pacific and Atlantic worlds. He is also writing a family memoir intersecting with Holocaust history.[1]
Selected Publications
Arnade is the author or editor of several influential books:
- Realms of Ritual: Burgundian Ceremony and Civic Life in Late-Medieval Ghent (Cornell University Press, 1996). The book was praised by historian Edward Muir, who called it a “remarkable first book” that offered “a sophisticated analysis of ritual” and contributed significantly to the understanding of urban political culture in the Low Countries.[2]
- Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots: The Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt (Cornell University Press, 2008)[3]
- Honor, Vengeance and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries (with Walter Prevenier, Cornell University Press, 2015)[4]
- Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Trexler (co-edited, 2008)[5]
- Autumn of the Middle Ages: A Century Later (co-edited with Martha Howell and Anton van der Lem, Amsterdam University Press, 2019)[6]
Fellowships and Honors
Arnade has received numerous awards and fellowships, including:
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship[1]
- Getty Research Scholar Fellowship (declined)[1]
- Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey[1]
- Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society[1]
- Research grants from the Renaissance Society of America[1]
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Grant[1]
- Member of the Class of Humanities, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts[1]
Professional Service
He has served as a reviewer and panelist for institutions such as the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and various academic journals and presses. He is affiliated with the American Historical Association, Renaissance Society of America, Sixteenth-Century Studies, Historical Society of Hawaiʻi, and the Netherlands Historical Association, among others.[1]
See also
- Dutch Revolt
- Burgundian Netherlands
- Microhistory
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Peter Arnade, Curriculum Vitae, Academia.edu. Available at: [1]. Accessed July 2025.
- ↑ Edward Muir, review of Realms of Ritual: Burgundian Ceremony and Civic Life in Late-Medieval Ghent by Peter Arnade, The American Historical Review, Vol. 103, No. 2 (Apr., 1998), pp. 545–546. JSTOR
- ↑ Peter Arnade, Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots: The Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt, Cornell University Press, 2008.
- ↑ Peter Arnade and Walter Prevenier, Honor, Vengeance and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries, Cornell University Press, 2015.
- ↑ Peter Arnade and Michael Rocke, eds., Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Trexler, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Research, 2008.
- ↑ Peter Arnade, Martha Howell, and Anton van der Lem, eds., Autumn of the Middle Ages: A Century Later, Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
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