Consulting

 As an historian and religious studies scholar, I am frequently solicited to provide my opinion on matters related to my field in academic settings (such as evaluating book proposals and manuscripts for university presses, article drafts for journals, and grant applications for funding agencies, as well as weighing in on tenure and promotion cases for universities). I also enjoy engaging frequently with journalists on issues in which I have expertise and that are important to me. More recently, however, I have also been called upon to share my knowledge in legal forums. Since March 2020 I have been retained as an expert witness by Justice Canada to opine on a case involving the importation of Italian reliquaries into this country. I enjoy consulting and consider it to be (much like media work) an extension of my teaching mandate into the public realm.

If you need an expert opinion on some matter relating to Catholic history, art and architecture, beliefs and practices, or ritual objects (or that touches upon some aspect of Canadian religious history), please feel free to get in touch, using the “Contact Me” tab.