Biography:Peter Sherlock

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Short description: Australian Vice-Chancellor and historian

Peter Sherlock
Peter Sherlock.jpg
Vice-Chancellor of University of Divinity
Assumed office
2012
Dean of United Faculty of Theology
In office
2008–2012
Personal details
Born
Peter Sherlock

(1972-10-26) 26 October 1972 (age 51)
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne, University of Oxford
Professionacademic, historian

Peter Sherlock (born 26 October 1972)[1] is an Australian academic and inaugural Vice-Chancellor of the University of Divinity in Melbourne, a role he has held since 2012. He specialises in the cultural history of Renaissance and Reformation Europe, and is a recognised authority on historic monuments.[2]

Education

Sherlock completed a MA in history at the University of Melbourne.[3] He held a Commonwealth Scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 1997 to 2000.[2] His D.Phil thesis from the University of Oxford was titled, Funeral Monuments: Piety, Honour and Memory in Early Modern England.[4] From 2004 to 2008 Sherlock was an Australia Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.[5]

Career

Throughout his career Sherlock has made significant contributions to ecumenical theological education and Australian Universities. He served as Dean of the United Faculty of Theology from 2008 to 2012[5][6] and was appointed as the inaugural Vice-Chancellor of the University of Divinity in 2012.[2][5] He has been the Chair of the Council of Deans of Theology since 2015 and Treasurer of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies since 2014.[7][5] He was elected as President of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools in 2022.[8]

Sherlock has also contributed to Australian public theological debate. Between 2013 and 2014 he wrote a column providing religious perspectives on contemporary issues called Theophilus for The Conversation.[9] He has been a guest on several Australian Broadcasting Commission's Radio National programs[10][11] and also appeared on episodes of The Drum.[12]

Sherlock's contributions to the Anglican Church includes serving as the Lay Canon of St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne from 2010 to 2016.[13] He was editor of the Journal of Anglican Studies from 2020 to 2021.[14][15] Sherlock he has spoken publicly in favour of the Anglican Church of Australia supporting same-sex marriage. He has been in a long-term same-sex relationship and married his partner in 2018.[16] Sherlock delivered the 48th Barry Marshall Memorial Lecture, 'Why Australia Needs Theology', at Trinity College, Melbourne in 2017.[17][18]

Sherlock's research explores Renaissance and Reformation Europe history and theology, especially the commemoration of the dead and cultures of remembering and forgetting. He is a recognised authority on historic monuments.[19] He has also published in the areas of gender and religion, on theological education, and contributed multiple entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.[20]

Select publications

Books

  • Sherlock, Peter (2008) Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England. Ashgate, Aldershot. 296pp. ISBN:9780754660934
  • Cassidy-Welch, Megan and Sherlock, Peter (2008) Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Turnhout: Brepols (Late medieval and early modern studies, v. 11). ISBN:9782503523361

Book chapters

  • Grimshaw, Patricia, and Peter Sherlock (2021) Women and Cultural Exchanges. In: Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission (Volume 2). Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 600–619. doi:10.1163/9789004399594_012
  • Sherlock, Peter (2020) Monuments and the Reformation. In: Memory and the English Reformation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 168–184. ISBN:9781108900157
  • Sherlock, Peter (2019) Sacred memory: The Elizabethan monuments of Westminster Abbey. In: Historicising Heritage and Emotions : The Affective Histories of Blood, Stone and Land. Routledge, London, pp. 67–83. ISBN:9781315472881
  • Sherlock, Peter (2018) Monuments and Memory. In: A history of early modern women's writing. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 292–312. ISBN:9781316480267
  • Sherlock, Peter (2017) The Revolution of Memory: Monuments at Westminster Abbey. In: Revolutionary England, c.1630-c.1660: essays for Clive Holmes. Routledge, London, pp. 201–217. ISBN:9781472438379

Journal articles

  • Sherlock, Peter (2016) The Foundation of the Melbourne College of Divinity. Journal of Religious History, 40 (2). pp. 204–224. doi:10.1111/1467-9809.12279

References

  1. ↑ "Who's Who Australia: Professor Peter David Sherlock". https://connectweb.com.au/search.aspx?f=1&q=peter+david+sherlock&t=1&c=austrailia&pub=all#results. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Professor Peter Sherlock". University of Divinity. https://staff.divinity.edu.au/staff/peter-sherlock/. 
  3. ↑ Sherlock, Peter (1997). Anglicans, feminists and the ordination of women in Australia 1968-1977 (Thesis). Parkville, Victoria: University of Melbourne.
  4. ↑ Sherlock, Peter. Funeral Monuments : Piety, Honour and Memory in Early Modern England. Thesis (D.Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2000. https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph015070048. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Peter Sherlock" (in en). https://theconversation.com/profiles/peter-sherlock-1803. 
  6. ↑ "United Faculty of Theology – University of Divinity" (in en-US). https://divinity.edu.au/about/history/uft/. 
  7. ↑ "Council of Deans of Theology". https://cdt.edu.au/executive.html. 
  8. ↑ "Peter Sherlock | Staff directory" (in en-GB). https://staff.divinity.edu.au/staff/peter-sherlock/. 
  9. ↑ "Theophilus". https://theconversation.com/columns/peter-sherlock-1803. 
  10. ↑ "Can religious institutions come back after the Royal Commission?" (in en-AU). 2018-08-27. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/can-religious-institutions-come-back-after-the-royal-comission/10169178. 
  11. ↑ "What are the limits of religious freedom in liberal democracies?" (in en-AU). 2017-08-23. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/theminefield/vwhat-are-the-limits-of-religious-freedom-in-liberal-democracies/8831196. 
  12. ↑ (in en-AU) The Drum: Friday April 9, ABC News, 2021-04-09, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-09/the-drum:-friday-april-9/13296654, retrieved 2022-08-24 
  13. ↑ St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne Annual Report. St Paul's Press. 2016. pp. 7. https://cathedral.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2016-annual-report-final-no-bleed.pdf2016. 
  14. ↑ Blackman, Graeme L. (2020). "Journal of Anglican Studies: Change of Editor". Journal of Anglican Studies 18: 1. doi:10.1017/S1740355320000297. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/25153A96B2A3FD7305B627F798D87A7A/S1740355320000297a.pdf/journal_of_anglican_studies_change_of_editor.pdf. Retrieved 19 August 2022. 
  15. ↑ Blackman, Graeme L. (2021). "Appointment of new Editor for the Journal of Anglican Studies". Journal of Anglican Studies 19: 1. doi:10.1017/S1740355321000115. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/8FE70C2A6951E9C7F8ACBD0917DA0595/S1740355321000115a.pdf/div-class-title-appointment-of-new-editor-for-the-journal-of-anglican-studies-div.pdf. Retrieved 19 August 2022. 
  16. ↑ Porter, Muriel (20 May 2022). "Australian Synod motion praising same-sex marriage falls, but gets nearly two-fifths of vote". Church Times. https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/20-may/news/world/australian-synod-motion-praising-same-sex-marriage-falls-but-gets-nearly-two-fifths-of-vote. 
  17. ↑ Trinity College, University of Melbourne 2017 Annual Report. Trinity College. 2017. pp. 4. https://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/Trinity/media/Brochures/Annual-Report-2017-LR.pdf. 
  18. ↑ "Barry Marshall Lecture | About | Trinity College". https://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/visiting-scholars/endowed-lectureships/barry-marshall-lecture. 
  19. ↑ Howse, Christopher (28 December 2019). "Sacred Mysteries: The Elgin Marbles of Westminster Abbey". The Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/12/28/sacred-mysteriesthe-elgin-marbles-westminster-abbey/. 
  20. ↑ "Contributor: Peter Sherlock" (in en). https://www.oxforddnb.com/search?f_0=contributor&q_0=Peter+Sherlock. 

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