Professor Christopher Stocker earned a BA in History in 1959 from Carleton College (Minnesota), and his PhD in History in 1963 from Cornell University, where he composed a dissertation entitled “Offices and Officers in the Parlement of Paris, 1483-1515”. Following his studies, he taught for one year at Stanford University before coming to UBC in 1964, where he taught until his retirement in 1999. As an early modern Europeanist, he taught survey courses in European history, medieval studies courses, as well as senior level courses on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Professor Stocker’s publications were based in Renaissance France with specific focus on the analysis of the activities and traditions of the Parlement of Paris as well as religious confraternities in the sixteenth century.