Edwin Bezzina
Associate Professor
Program: Historical Studies
Email: b56eb@mun.ca
Phone: (709) 637-2191
Room: Arts and Science Annex, room 332T
Credentials
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Research interests
- Protestant-Catholic relations in Early Modern France
- The use and design of databases
- Residential urban mapping using ArcGIS
- Reading Early Modern French manuscripts
- French Protestant refugee communities outside of France
- Confraternities in Early Modern France
Teaching
I teach in the areas of Early Modern Europe, the Atlantic World, medieval history, and New France.
Representative scholarly contributions
鈥淰ulnerable Progeny: Three French Protestant Rural Communities during the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598).鈥 Church History and Religious Culture 105 (2025): 1-24.
鈥淟a Stabilit茅 d鈥檜ne Communaut茅 Minoritaire: Le Consistoire de l鈥櫭塯lise Wallonne d鈥橝msterdam, 1594-1607.鈥 Bulletin de l鈥橝ssociation Suisse pour l鈥檋istoire du Refuge huguenot 33 (2020): 19-31.
Current research projects and grants
鈥淭he Christians of Loudun: Protestant-Catholic Dynamics in a French Provincial City (ca.1560-1640)鈥 (book project in progress, at the writing stage).
Awards and recognitions
I am the recipient of the Grenfell Campus Student Union Teaching and Learning Award.
Memberships and affiliations
Society for Confraternity Studies
Honours, graduate and post-graduate supervision
Member, Ph.D. committee of Eugene Knight (Department of History, St. John鈥檚 campus)
Member, Ph.D. committee of Ericka Larkin (Department of English, St. John鈥檚 campus)