Peter Arnade

Prior to serving as the Dean of CALL, Arnade was the Dean of the former College of Arts and Humanities at UH Mānoa from 2012-19. A historian by training, his books include Realms of Ritual (Ithaca, 1996), Beggars, Iconoclasts and Civic Patriots (Ithaca, 2008), Honor, Vengeance and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries. (Ithaca, 2016) , and the co-edited Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas (Toronto, 2008) and Rereading Huizinga (2019). His current research focuses more globally on Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese imperial competition in the Pacific and Atlantic. A specialist in ritual theory, the history of urban public space, popular politics, civic republicanism and religion, he has held fellowships from Fulbright Hays, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty, the American Philosophical Society, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton.