Sonia Riddoch 

Adjunct Associate Professor
Modern German History

E-mail: riddochs@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-6000, ext: 74381
Fax: 613-533-6298
Office: Watson Hall 304

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Education

Ph.D., Queen's, 1997
M.A., McMaster, 1968

About

After receiving her MA in History from McMaster University in 1968, Sonia Riddoch taught high school history in Northern Ontario for five years. Teaching at the secondary level provided experience for the next stage of her career, which was writing history textbooks in Canadian and European History for secondary school history programs in Newfoundland, Manitoba and Ontario. When her children reached school age, Sonia Riddoch returned to graduate work in History at Queen's University. She received a Ph. D in 1997 with a dissertation on The Ernst Troeltsch-Karl Holl Controversy and the Writing of Reformation History written under the supervision of Dr. James M. Stayer. She is adjunct associate professor in the Department of History where she teaches European and German History; her fields of interest being nineteenth and twentieth-century German intellectual and political history. In 1998-1999 she was the University Representative and History Curriculum Writer for Social Program Evaluation Group at the Faculty of Education, Queen's University, and in this capacity participated in the revision of the Ontario Secondary School History and Social Sciences Curriculum.

Courses Taught

HIST237 European Intellectual History
HIST121 Intellectual Origins of the Contemporary West
HIST125 The Evolution of Modern Europe
HIST277 Modern Germany 1871- 1945
HIST445 Nazi Germany
HIST225 European Politics and Society Since 1789
HIST445 Twentieth-Century Germany (formerly Nazi Germany)

Major Publications

"Stepchildren of the Reformation or Heralds of Modernity: Ernst Troeltsch on Sixteenth-Century Anabaptists, Sectarians and Spiritualists," in Werner O. Packull and Geoffrey L. Dipple, eds., Radical Reformation Studies: Essays Presented to James M. Stayer. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1999, 143-156.

"Karl Holl and the Fatherland Party 1917- 1918," in Bruce L. Guenther, ed., Historical Papers. Canadian Society of Church History, 2000, 43-52.