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CURRICULUM VITAE
Raymond A. Mentzer
Department of Religious Studies
314 Gilmore Hall
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-335-2161
Fax: 319-335-3716
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Higher Education
University of Wisconsin Ph.D. History 1973
M.A. History 1970
Fordham University A.B. History 1967
Institut d’Études Politiques (Paris) Certificat 1966
Academic Positions
Daniel J. Krumm Family Chair in Reformation Studies,
Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa 2001-present
Professeur invité, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour,
France November 2011
Professeur invité, Université d’Angers, France March 2011
Professeur invité, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III,
France January-March 2009
Directeur d’études associé, École Pratique des Hautes Études,
Section des Sciences Religieuses, Paris March 1997 & January 2003
Professor of History, Montana State University 1973-2001
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Related Appointments
Co-Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers,
“John Calvin and the Transformation of Religious Culture
at Geneva, France and Beyond,” Henry H. Meeter Center
for Calvin Studies, Grand Rapids, Michigan 28 June-30 July 2004
Associé, Centre d’Histoire moderne et contemporaine de l’Europe
méditerranéenne et ses périphéries, Université Paul Valéry,
Montpellier III, France 1998-2008
Instructor, Northwest Interinstitutional Study Abroad Program,
Avignon, France 1977
Honors and Awards
Bodo Nischan Award for Scholarship, Civility and Service,
Society for Reformation Research 2018
Doctorat Honoris Causa, Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2018
Festschrift: Karen Spierling, Erik A. de Boer and R. Ward Holder (eds.).
Emancipating Calvin: Culture and Confessional Identity in
Francophone Reformed Communities. Essays in Honor of
Raymond A. Mentzer. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 2018
Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes académiques 2017
Regents Award for Faculty Excellent 2015
Lewis Memorial Prize, Huguenot Heritage 2009
Harold J. Grimm Prize, Sixteenth Century Society
and Conference 1987 & 2008
Cox Family Award for Creative Research and Teaching,
Montana State University 1997
National Huguenot Society Book Prize (for Blood and Belief) 1995
Wiley Research Prize, Montana State University 1985
Phi Kappa Phi 1971
Phi Beta Kappa 1967
Memberships
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
Endowment Chair 2005-2018
President 1997
Roland Bainton Book Prize Committee 1995
Nancy L. Roelker Prize Committee, chair 1993
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Nominating Committee (chair, 1992) 1989-1992
Carl S. Meyer Prize, Selection Committee 1988 & 2006
Society for Reformation Research
President 2006-2007
Vice President 2004-2005
Miriam U. Chrisman Travel Fellowship, Selection Committee 2007
Nominating Committee (chair, 1996) 1993-1996
Calvin Studies Society
President 2007-2009
Vice President and Program Chair 2005-2007
American Catholic Historical Association
Committee on Nominations (chair, 2000) 1998-2000
American Society of Church History
Program Committee 2008
Institutional Liaison 1995-1998
Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society
Executive Council 1984-1988
TEACHING
Semester/
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ADVISEES COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate
Graduate
Course Number and Title Students Enrolled
Spring 2019 1 RELS 1250 Modern Religion and Culture 82
RELS 3190 Medieval to Modern: The Birth of Protestantism
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RELS 7260 French Paleography 1
Fall 2018 1 RELS 1225 Medieval Religion and Culture 94
RELS 4155 Religious Conflict: Early Modern Period
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Spring 2018 2 1 RELS 1250 Modern Religion and Culture 86
RELS 3385 Early Modern Catholicism 23
RELS 7260 French Paleography 1
Fall 2017 2 1 RELS 1225 Medieval Religion and Culture 95
RELS 3190 Medieval to Modern: The Birth of Protestantism
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RELS 7260 French Paleography 1
Spring 2017 3 3 RELS 1250 Modern Religion and Culture 114
RELS 4155 Religious Conflict: Early Modern Period
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RELS 7260 French Paleography 1
RELS 7950 Thesis 2
Fall 2016 3 3 RELS 1225 Medieval Religion and Culture 74
RELS 6475 Seminar: Reformation Culture 4
RELS 7260 French Paleography 1
RELS 7950 Thesis 2
HIST 3191:3787 Individual Study: Undergraduate
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Summer 2016 RELS 7950 Thesis 1
Spring 2016 5 3 RELS 1250 Modern Religion and Culture 100
RELS 3190 Medieval to Modern: The Birth of Protestantism
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RELS 4960 Individual Study: Undergraduates
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RELS 7260 French Paleography 1
RELS 7950 Thesis 2
Fall 2015 3 3 RELS 1225 Medieval Religion and Culture 94
RELS 3485 Early Modern Catholicism 4
RELS 4960 Individual Study: Undergraduates
1
RELS 7260 French Paleography 1
RELS 7950 Thesis 2
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Spring 2015 3 5 RELS 1250 Modern Religion and Culture 120
RELS 3385 Early Modern Catholicism 8
RELS 7260 French Paleography 2
RELS: 7950 Thesis 5
Fall 2014 5 Career Development Award
RELS:7450:0022 (032:262:022) Readings in History of Christianity
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RELS 7950:0022 (032:291:022) Thesis 3
Summer 2014 032:290 Individual Study 1
Spring 2014 4 7 032:026 Modern Religion and Culture 140
032:260 French Paleography 6
032:262 Readings in History of Christianity 1
032:263 Readings in Theology and Christian Thought
1
032:291 Thesis 2
Fall 2013 5 8 032:025 Medieval Religion and Culture 119
032:223 Seminar: Reformation Culture and Theology
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032:260 French Paleography 5
032:262 Readings in History of Christianity 2
032:291 Thesis 2
Summer 2013 032:290 Individual Study 2
Spring 2013 10 10 032:026 Modern Religion and Culture 118
032:192 Traditions of Religious Reform 15
032:260 French Paleography 5
032:262 Readings in History of Christianity 1
032:290 Individual Study Graduates 1
032:291 Thesis 2
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Fall 2012 10 10 032:085 Early Modern Catholicism 27
032:154 Religious Conflict: Early Modern Period
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032:262 Readings in History of Christianity 1
032:290 Individual Study Graduates 1
032: 291 Thesis 4
Spring 2012 3 8 032:223 Seminar: Reformation Culture and Theology
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032: 261 Readings in American Religions 1
032: 262 Readings in History of Christianity 1
032:291 Thesis 3
Fall 2011 5 7 032:025 Medieval Religion and Culture 135
032:262 Readings in the History of Christianity
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032:291 Thesis 3
Spring 2011 5 8 032:223 Seminar: Reformation Culture and Theology
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032:291 Thesis 5
Fall 2010 5 8 032:026 Modern Religion and Culture 147
032:262 Readings in the History of Christianity
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032:291 Thesis 5
Spring 2010 5 8 032:025 Medieval Religion and Culture 73
032:262 Readings in the History of Christianity
1
032:291 Thesis 2
Fall 2009 7 5 032:085 Early Modern Catholicism 73
032:262 Readings in History of Christianity 1
032:291 Thesis 2
Spring 2009 Career Development Award
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Fall 2008 Career Development Award
Spring 2008 8 7 032:154 Religious Conflict – Early Modern Period
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032:262 Readings in History of Christianity
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032:291 Thesis 3
Fall 2007 8 6 032:192 / 016:192 Traditions of Religious Reform
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032:262 Readings in History of Christianity 1
032:291 Thesis 2
Spring 2007 12 6 032:025 / 016:026 Medieval Religion and Culture
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032:262 Readings in History of Christianity 3
032:290 Individual Study Graduates 1
032:291 Thesis 1
Fall 2006 15 6 032:223 Seminar: Reformation Culture and Theology
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032:262 Readings in History of Christianity 3
Spring 2006 12 6 032:085 / 016:085 Early Modern Catholicism 68
Fall 2005 12 5 032:026 / 016:026 Modern Religion and Culture
149
032:262 Readings in History of Christianity 1
Spring 2005 14 5 032:025 / 016:026 Medieval Religion and Culture
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032:262 Readings in History of Christianity 1
032:290 Individual Study Graduate 2
Fall 2004 12 2 032:192 / 016:192 Traditions of Religious Reform
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Spring 2004 14 2 032:196 Senior Majors Seminar 16
Fall 2003 12 2 032:223 Seminar: Reformation Theology 8
032:262 Readings in the History of Christianity
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Spring 2003 14 2 032:026 Modern Religion and Culture 69
032:085 Early Modern Catholicism 31
032:262 Readings in the History of Christianity
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032:290 Thesis 1
Fall 2002 12 0 032:154 Religion and Conflict: Early Modern Period
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032:223 Seminar: Reformation Theology 4
032:262 Readings in the History of Christianity
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Spring 2002 9 0 032:026 Modern Religion and Culture 56
032:192 Traditions of Religious Reform 4
032:290 Independent Study 1
Fall 2001 5 0 032:025 Medieval Religion and Culture 38
032:223 Seminar: Reformation Theology 8
Students Supervised
Ph.D. candidates
Mara Adams Ph.D. awarded May 2006
Denise Kettering Ph.D. awarded May 2009
Douglas Jones Ph.D. awarded May 2011
Kathrine Nixon Ph.D. awarded May 2011
Timothy Stoller Ph.D. awarded August 2011
Ezra Plank Ph.D. awarded May 2013
Stephen Scheperle Ph.D. awarded May 2014
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David Greder Ph.D. awarded May 2015
Christopher McFadin (History) Ph.D. awarded May 2015
John Kennedy Ph.D. awarded May 2017
Kyle Dieleman Ph.D. awarded May 2017
Joseph TenHulzen (History) (MA defense 3-28-17) 2015-present
MA candidates
Anna Lynch MA awarded May 2013
Received The University of Iowa L.B. Sims Outstanding Master's
Thesis Award in the Humanities
Received the 2014 Midwest Association of Graduate Schools
Distinguished Thesis Award in the Humanities
Nicole Drisdelle MA awarded May 2014
Ashley Tickle MA awarded May 2015
Graduate Committee Memberships (current): 6
History Justin Kirkland
Salvatory Nyanto
John Yost (prospectus defense December 2018)
Garrett Lewis
Religious Studies Emma Rifai (comprehensive examination and prospectus defense
April 2018)
Jason Sprague
External Doctoral Committee Memberships
University of St. Andrews – School of History
David Watson 6 December 1997
Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, Département d’Histoire
Julien Léonard 19 November 2011
Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, Département d’Histoire
Estelle Martinazzo 20 October 2012
Fuller Theological Seminary – Center for Advanced Theological Studies Randal Working 13 January 2014
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SCHOLARSHIP
Published Works
Refereed Monographs
Les registres des consistoires des Églises réformées de France, XVIe - XVIIe siècles.
Un inventaire. Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 526. Archives des Églises réformées
de France 4. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014.
Blood and Belief: Family Survival and Confessional Identity among the Provincial
Huguenot Nobility. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1994.
Heresy Proceedings in Languedoc, 1500-1560. Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 1984.
Collected Essays
La construction de l’identité réformée aux 16e et 17e siècles: le rôle des consistoires.
Paris: Champion, 2006.
Edited Volumes
A Companion to the Huguenots. Co-edited with Bertrand Van Ruymbeke. Brill
Companion Series 68. Leiden: Brill, 2016.
Agir pour l’Église. Ministères et charges ecclésiastiques dans les Églises réformés (XVIe-
XIXe siècle). Co-edited with Didier Poton. Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2014.
Dire l’interdit: The Vocabulary of Censure and Exclusion in the Early Modern Reformed
Tradition. Co-edited with Philippe Chareyre and Françoise Moreil. Brill Series in Church
History 40. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
La mesure du fait religieux: L’approche méthodologique des registres consistoriaux dans
l’espace calvinien XVI-XVIIIe siècle. Co-edited with Philippe Chareyre. Special issue of Bulletin
de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français 153: 4 (octobre-novembre-décembre
2007).
Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685. Co-edited with Andrew Spicer.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Sin and the Calvinists: Morals Control and the Consistory in the Reformed Tradition.
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Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 32. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 1994.
Second edition, 2002.
Refereed Articles and Invited Book Chapters
“The Deconfessionalization of the Reformations,” Sixteenth Century Journal
(forthcoming).
“French Christianity in the Early 1500s,” in John Calvin in Context. Edited by R. Ward
Holder (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
“Sacral Systems: Respecting the Longstanding, Embracing the New,” in Essays in Honor
of Merry Wiesner. Edited by Amy Leonard and David Whitford (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, forthcoming).
“Les Églises réformées et la tenue des dossiers au XVIIe siècle: un registre brouillon du
consistoire de Castres,” XVIIe siècle (forthcoming).
“Les Consistoires,” with Philippe Chareyre, in La France Huguenote: Histoire
institutionnelle d’une minorité religieuse. Edited by Philippe Chareyre and Hugues Daussy
(Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, forthcoming).
“L’introduction des méreaux et des bancs dans les Églises réformées de France aux XVIe
et XVIIe siècles,” in Les Protestants à l’époque moderne. Edited by Olivier Christin and Yves
Krumenacker (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017), pp. 39-51.
“Local Contexts and Regional Variations: Consistories,” in Judging Faith, Punishing Sin:
Inquisitions and Consistories in the Early Modern World. Edited by Charles H. Parker and
Gretchen Starr-LeBeau (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 15-27.
“Organizing the Churches and Reforming Society,” with Philippe Chareyre, in A
Companion to the Huguenots. Edited by Raymond A. Mentzer and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke.
Brill Companion Series 68 (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 17-42.
“The Practice of Church Discipline in Lutheran and Reformed Areas,” in Entfaltung und
zeitgenössische Wirkung der Reformation im europäischen Kontext. Dissemination and
Contemporary Impact of the Reformation in a European Context. Edited by Irene Dingel and Ute
Lotz-Heumann (Heidelberg: Gütersloh, 2015), pp. 288-301.
“Reorganizing the Pastorate: Innovations and Challenges in the French Reformed
Churches,” in Collaboration, Conflict, and Continuity in the Reformation. Essays in Honour of
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James M. Estes on his Eightieth Birthday. Edited by Konrad Eisenblickler. Essays and Studies
34 (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014), pp. 195-215.
“The Social Construction of Early Huguenot Identity,” in L'Identité huguenote: faire
mémoire et écrire l'histoire (XVIe-XXIe siècle). Edited by Philip Benedict, Hugues Daussy and
Pierre-Olivier Léchot (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014), pp. 49-65.
“Reformed Liturgical Practices,” in A Companion to the Eucharist in the Reformation.
Brill Companion Series. Edited by Lee Palmer Wandel (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 231-250.
“Textual Prescription and Ecclesiastical Practice in the Reformed Churches of France:
Myths and Realities Surrounding the Consistory,” in Bible, Histoire et Société. Mélanges offerts
à Bernard Roussel. Edited by Gerald Hobbs and Annie Noblesse-Rocher. Bibliothèque de
l’École des Hautes Études 163 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 357-368.
“Les racines françaises de l’encadrement social des communautés calvinistes dans
l’Amérique du Nord contemporaine,” in Les Huguenots et l’Atlantique. Edited by Mickaël
Augeron, Didier Poton and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke. 2 vols. (Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2012),
2: 299-304.
“Une nouvelle langue liturgique parmi les réformés,” in La cour de Nérac au temps de
Henri de Navarre et de Marguerite de Valois, Actes du colloque organisé par l’Université de
Bordeaux 3. Edited by Véronique Ferrer et Catherine Magnien (Centre Montaigne, LAPRIL) et par
l’Association des Amis d’Agrippa d’Aubigné, Château de Nérac, 28-29 mai 2010, Albineana – Cahiers
d’Aubigné, 24 (2012): 113-122.
“Church Discipline and Order,” in T&T Clark Guide to Reformation Theology. Edited by
David M. Whitford (London: T&T Clark, 2012), pp. 213-232.
“The Appeal of Calvinism in France,” in Calvin und Calvinismus. Europäische
Perspectiven. Edited by Irene Dingel and Herman Selderhuis (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 2011), pp. 103-114.
“Comment la réforme a pénétré dans les campagnes du Midi,” in. L’hérétique au village.
Les minorités religieuses dans l’Europe médiévale et moderne. Actes des XXXIe Journées
d’histoire du Flaran. Edited by Philippe Chareyre (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail,
2011), pp. 41-52.
“Les contextes de la conversion à l’époque de la Réforme,” N°8 Expériences de
conversion, in Cahiers d’Études du Religieux - Recherches interdisciplinaires (Montpellier:
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 2010, online at http://cerri.revues.org/72 and
http://www.paroledechercheurs.net/spip.php?article601).
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“Communities of Worship and the Reformed Churches of France,” in Defining
Community in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Michael J. Halverson and Karen E. Spierling
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), pp. 25-42.
“Calvin und Frankreich,” in Calvin Handbuch. Edited by Herman Selderhuis (Tübigen:
Mohr Siebeck, 2008), pp. 78-87. English edition: “Calvin and France,” in Calvin Handbook.
Edited by Herman Selderhuis (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2009), pp. 78-87.
“Masculinity and the Reformation in France,” in Masculinity in the Reformation Era.
Edited by Scott Hendrix and Susan Karant-Nunn (Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University
Press, 2008), pp. 120-139.
“Theory in Practice: Calvin’s Ecclesiology in the French Churches,” in Calvinus
sacrarum literarum interpres. Papers of the International Congress on Calvin Research. Edited
by Herman Selderhuis (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008), pp. 209-222
“The Genevan Model and Gallican Originality in the French Reformed Tradition,” in
Adaptations of Calvinism in Reformation Europe: Essays in Honour of Brian G. Armstrong.
Edited by Mack Holt (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 147-164.
“La mémoire d’une ‘fausse religion’: les registres de consistoire des Églises réformées de
France (XVIe - XVIIe siècles),” Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français
153 (2007): 461-475.
“Fasting, Piety and Political Anxiety among French Reformed Protestants,” Church
History 76 (2007): 330-362.
“The Piety of Townspeople and City Folk,” in A People’s History of Christianity. Vol. 5.
Reformation Christianity. Edited by Peter Matheson (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006), pp. 23-
47. Reprinted in A People’s History of Christianity, Student Edition. Vol. 2, From the
Reformation to the 21st Century. Edited by Denis R. Janz (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014),
pp. 21-46. German edition (Heidelberg: Gütersloh, forthcoming).
“Les débats sur les bancs dans les Églises réformées de France,” Bulletin de la Société de
l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français 152 (2006): 393-406.
“The Synod in Reformed Tradition,” in Synod and Synodality: Theology, History, Canon
Law and Ecumenism in New Contact, International Colloquium Bruges 2003. Edited by Alberto
Melloni and Silvia Scatena. Christianity and History. Series of the John XXIII Foundation for
Religious Studies in Bologna (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2005), pp. 173-184.
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“The Huguenot Minority in Early Modern France,” in Religion and the Early Modern
State: Views from China, Russia, and the West. Edited by James D. Tracy and Marguerite
Ragnow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 185-206.
“Fashioning Reformed Identity in Early Modern France,” in Confessionalization in
Europe, 1555-1700: Essays in Honor and Memory of Bodo Nischan. Edited by John M.
Headley, Hans J. Hillerbrand and Anthony J. Papalas (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 243-255.
“Idéologie réformatrice et comportement quotidien,” in Les deux réformes chrétiennes:
propagation et diffusion. Edited by Myriam Yardeni and Ilana Zinguer (Leiden: Brill, 2004), pp.
253-261.
“Sociability and Culpability: Conventions of Mediation and Reconciliation within the
Sixteenth-Century Huguenot Community,” in Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France
and the Atlantic Diaspora. Edited by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Randy J. Sparks (Columbia,
S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2003), pp. 45-57.
“Laity and Liturgy in the French Reformed Tradition,” in History Has Many Voices.
Edited by Lee P. Wandel, Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 63 (Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State
University Press, 2003), pp. 71-92.
“Anthropologie historique: les rituels réformés (XVIe-XVIIe siècles),” with Françoise
Chevalier, Christian Grosse and Bernard Roussel, Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du
Protestantisme Français 148 (2002): 979-1009.
“Acting on Calvin’s Ideas: The Church in France,” in Calvin and the Church. Calvin
Studies Society Papers 2001. Edited by David Foxgrover (Grand Rapids: Calvin Studies
Society, 2002), pp. 29-41.
“The Edict of Nantes and its Institutions,” in Society and Culture in the Huguenot World,
1559-1685. Edited by Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002), pp 98-116.
“Marseille and the Urban Experience in Early Modern France: Communal Values,
Religious Reform, and Absolutism,” with Ellery Schalk, Historical Reflections/Reflections
historiques 27 (2001): 241-300.
“La place et le rôle des femmes dans les Églises réformées,” Archives de Sciences
sociales des Religions 113 (janvier-mars 2001): 119-132.
“Notions of Sin and Penitence within the French Reformed Community,” in Penitence in
the Age of Reformations. Edited by Katherine Jackson Lualdi and Anne T. Thayer. (Aldershot:
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Ashgate, 2000), pp. 84-100.
“Morals and Moral Regulation in Protestant France,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History
31:1 (Summer 2000): 1-20.
“L’Édit de Nantes et l’établissement de la paix en Languedoc,” in Paix des armes, paix
des âmes. Edited by Paul Mironneau and Isabelle Pébay-Clottes (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale,
2000), pp. 295-301.
“The French Wars of Religion,” in The Reformation World. Edited by Andrew Pettegree
(London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 323-343.
“L’Édit de Nantes et l’initiative judiciaire,” in L’Édit de Nantes. Sûreté et éducation
(Montauban: Société Montalbanaise d’Etude et de Recherche sur le Protestantisme, 1999), pp.
165-174.
“The Reformed Churches of France and the Visual Arts,” in Seeing Beyond the Word:
Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition. Edited by Paul Corby Finney (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1999), pp. 199-230.
“The Printed Catechism and Religious Instruction in the French Reformed Churches,” in
Habent sua fata libelli. Books Have Their Own Destiny. Essays in Honor of Robert V.
Schnucker. Edited by Robin B. Barnes, Robert A. Kolb and Paula L. Presley. Sixteenth Century
Essays and Studies 50 (Kirksville, Mo.: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1998), pp. 93-101.
“L’édit de Nantes et la chambre de justice du Languedoc,” in Coexister dans
l’intolérance. L’édit de Nantes (1598). Edited by Michel Grandjean and Bernard Roussel
(Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1998), pp. 321-338 and Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du
Protestantisme Français 144 (1998): 321-338.
“The Persistence of ‘Superstition and Idolatry’ among Rural French Calvinists,” Church
History 65 (1996): 220-233.
“‘L’épine suit la rose’: mariage, enfants et amours à Castres au XVIIe siècle,” Revue du
Tarn, no. 157 (printemps 1995): 109-119.
“Marking the Taboo: Excommunication in the French Reformed Churches,” in Sin and
the Calvinists: Morals Control and the Consistory in the Reformed Tradition (Kirksville, Mo.:
Truman State University Press, 1994), pp. 97-128.
“The Troubled Status of the French Reformed Churches,” in Archiv für
Reformationsgeschichte. Sonderband: Die Reformation in Deutschland und Europe:
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Interpretationen und Debatten. (Heidelberg: Gűtersloh, 1993), pp. 614-623.
“France,” in Reformation Europe: A Guide to Research II. Reformation Guides to
Research 3. Edited by W.S. Maltby (St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1992), pp.
189-213.
“The Reformed Churches of France and Medieval Canon Law,” in Canon Law in
Protestant Lands. Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History 11.
Edited by R.H. Helmholz (Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1992), pp. 165-185.
“Organizational Endeavour and Charitable Impulse in Sixteenth-Century France: The
Case of Protestant Nîmes,” French History 5 (1991): 1-29.
“Ecclesiastical Discipline and Communal Reorganization among the Protestants of
Southern France,” European History Quarterly 21 (1991): 163-183.
“Le consistoire et la pacification du monde rural,” Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du
Protestantisme Français 135 (1989): 373-389.
“Bipartisan Justice and the Pacification of Late Sixteenth-Century Languedoc,” in
Regnum, Religio et Ratio: Essays Presented to Robert M. Kingdon. Edited by J. Friedman
(Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1987), pp. 125-132.
“Disciplina nervus ecclesiae: The Calvinist Reform of Morals at Nîmes,” Sixteenth
Century Journal 18 (1987): 89-115. Reprinted in Articles on Calvin and Calvinism. Edited by
R.C. Gamble (Hamden, Conn.: Garland, 1992) 14: 13-39. Reprinted in The Reformation:
Critical Concepts in Historical Studies. Edited by Andrew Pettegree (London: Routledge, 2004)
3: 319-343.
“The Self-Image of the Magistrate in Sixteenth-Century France,” Criminal Justice
History: An International Annual 5 (1984): 23-43.
“Marranos of Southern France in the Early Sixteenth Century,” Jewish Quarterly Review
72 (1982): 303-311.
“The Formation of the chambre de l’Édit of Languedoc,” Proceedings of the Annual
Meeting of the Western Society for French History 7 (1980): 47-56.
“Heresy Suspects in Languedoc Prior to 1560: Observations on their Social and
Occupational Status,” Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 29 (1977): 561-568.
“Calvinist Propaganda and the Parlement of Toulouse,” Archiv für
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Reformationsgeschichte 68 (1977): 268-283.
“The Inquisitor as Heretic: The Pre-Reformation at Toulouse,” Wascana Review 9
(1974): 156-165.
“The Legal Response to Heresy in Languedoc, 1500-1560,” Sixteenth Century Journal 4
(1973): 19-30.
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“Assuring Civil Rights for Religious Minorities,” Festschrift for Susan Karant-Nunn
(forthcoming).
“Protestant Temples in Catholic France,” in The Cambridge History of Religious
Architecture of the World. Edited by Richard Eltin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
forthcoming).
“Introduction,” with Didier Poton, in Agir pour l’Église, XVIe-XIXe siècle. Edited by
Raymond Mentzer and Didier Poton. (Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2014).
“Tensions meurtrières et tentatives de coexistence,” Revue du Tarn 219 (automne 2010):
375-386.
“Huguenots and Their Theology,” “Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day,” “Camisards,”
“Philippe Duplessis-Mornay,” “Marie Durand,” in Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. Edited
by Daniel M. Patte (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
“Les pasteurs: l’image et la réalité,” in Didier Boisson and Yves Krumenacker (eds.), Les
pasteurs et leurs écrits dans l'aire francophone à l'époque moderne: actes de la journée d'études
de Pau du 11 octobre 2008, special issue of the Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du
Protestantisme Français 156 (2010): 147-149.
“Que sais-je? Speculation on Historical Studies as Yet Unwritten,” Sixteenth Century
Journal 40 (2009): 214-215.
Contributor, “The Concept of Social Disciplining and its Applicability in Current
Historiographical Debate. A Discussion Initiated by Maria Crăciun,” Colloquia 10-11 (2003-
2004): 70-85.
“Huguenots,” in Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. Edited by
Dinah L. Shelton. (New York: Macmillan, 2004).
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“Belgic Confession of 1561,” “Canons of Dort,” “Gaspard de Coligny,” “Gallican
Confession,” “Huguenots,” “Edict of Restitution,” in Encyclopedia of Protestantism, Edited by
Hans J. Hillerbrand, 4 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2004), 1: 213, 447-448, 2: 613-615, 779,
895-898, 3: 1606-1608.
“La chambre de l’Édit de Grenoble,” in Rendre la justice en Dauphiné de 1453 à 2003.
Edited by Olivier Cogne (Grenoble: Archives Départementales de l’Isère and Presses
Universitaires de Grenoble, 2003), pp. 51-53.
“Order in the Church,” Christian History 71 (Summer 2001): 16-20.
“Structuring and interpreting the experience of early modern Europeans,” review essay in
The Historical Journal 43 (2000): 295-302.
“Théodore de Bèze,” in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Edited by Paul F. Grendler (6
vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999), 1: 208-209.
“Louis de Berquin,” “Languedoc,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation.
Edited by Hans J. Hillerbrand (4 vols. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996),
1: 146-147 and 2: 388-389.
“The Misidentification of the Poet Lacger,” French Studies Bulletin, no. 37 (Winter
1990/91): 18-19.
“The Scriveners of the Inquisition: G. Henningsen and J. Tedeschi, eds., The Inquisition
in Early Modern Europe: Studies on Sources and Methods (Dekalb, 1986),” review essay in
Criminal Justice History: An International Annual 8 (1987): 155-162.
“‘Disciplines’ réformées du XVIe siècle français: une découverte faite aux Etats-Unis,”
with R.M. Kingdon and M. Reulos, Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme
Français 130 (1984): 69-86.
“The Essayists’ Sources,” in Transition and Revolution: Problems and Issues of
European Renaissance and Reformation History (Minneapolis, 1974), pp. 77-107.
Book Reviews: various reviews (110 to date) published in:
American Historical Review
American Journal of Legal History
Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance
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Bulletin of the Institute for Reformed Theology
Calvin Theological Journal
Catholic Historical Review
Cristianesimo nella storia
Church History
Contemporary French Civilization
Criminal Justice History
Expository Times
Fides et Historia
French Historical Studies (online at H-France)
French Review
Historian
Historical Journal
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Journal of Modern History
Journal of Religion in Europe
Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
Medieval Review (online)
Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Reading Religion (American Academy of Religion)
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Religious Studies Review
Renaissance Quarterly
Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme
Reviews in History (on-line at http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/)
Revue d’histoire du protestantisme
Revue du Tarn
Sixteenth Century Journal
Speculum
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis
Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte
Recently published reviews
Julien Léonard, Le pasteur David Ancillon (1617-1692). De Metz à Berlin, de la France
au Refuge. Metz: Éditions des Paraiges, 2017. 363 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. 20
€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-37535-039-3. [H-France Review Vol. 18 (February 2018), No. 31. Online at
http://www.h-france.net/vol18reviews/vol18no31mentzer.pdf]
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Frans P. VAN STAM, The Servetus Case. An Appeal for a New Assessment. Genève:
Librairie Droz, 2017, 341 p. [Revue d’histoire du protestantisme 3 (2018): 128-130.]
Why Religions Matter. John Bowker. New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press, March 2015. 362 pages. $85.00. Hardcover. ISBN 9781107085114. [Reading Religion
(October 2, 2018) http://readingreligion.org/books/why-religions-matter]
Barbara Pitkin (ed.), Semper Reformanda. John Calvin, Worship, and Reformed
Traditions, Göttingen 2018. [Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 129 (2018): 276-277.]
Registres du consistoire de Genève au temps de Calvin. Vol. 11 (20 février 1556 – 4
février 1557). Edited by Jeffrey R. Watt and Isabella M. Watt. Travaux d’Humanisme et
Renaissance 578. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2017. xlii + 398 pp. $142.68. ISBN 978-2-600-05799-
8. [Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming)]
The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, ed. Youri Desplenter,
Jürgen Pieters, and Walter Melion. Leiden: Brill, 2017. [Renaissance Quarterly (forthcoming)]
Grants
External
National Endowment for the Humanities, Co-director, Summer
Seminar for College and University Teachers ($82,000) 2003
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College
Teachers 1981-82, 1989-90 & 1997-98
J.K. Cameron Faculty Fellow, University of St. Andrews Reformation
Studies Institute 1997
Camargo Foundation Fellow 1990 & 1998
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend 1984 & 1994
American Philosophical Society Grant 1992
H. H. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Summer Research Fellowship 1989
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant 1988
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Newberry Library Short-Term Resident Fellowship 1978
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Fellowship 1978
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 1975-76
Internal
Iowa Research Experiences for Undergraduates ($3,000) 2003
International Travel Grant, University of Iowa 2002
Exceptional Opportunity Grant, Montana State University 1999-2000
Faculty Development Grant, Montana State University 1987, 1988, 1989
1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001
Dunbar Research Fellowship, Montana State University 1989
Recent Invited Lectures and Selected Conference Papers
Major
“Standing for Mass, Seated for Sermon,” Rev. Henry Casper, SJ Lecture, Marquette
University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 11 April 2011.
“Brawls over Seating in Reformed Worship,” Schnackenberg Lecture, Pacific Lutheran
University, Tacoma, Washington, 28 February 2011.
“The Social Dimensions of Calvinism,” McKay Lectures, series of five lectures at the
Taiwan Theological Seminary, Taipei, 25-27 January 2010.
“Calvin’s Theological Insights and the Redesign of Worship Space,” plenary address,
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 28-30 May 2009.
“’No benches are reserved’? Seating Disputes in the French Reformation Church,” H.H.
Meeter Center for Calvin Studies Biennial Lecture, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich., 6 April
2005.
International
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Chair, “Les querelles internes au protestantisme dans les pays catholiques ou
multiconfessionnels,” Définir l’hétérodoxie dans le protestantisme, entre Églises et États (XVIe-
XVIIIe siècles, Lyon, France 30 June-1 July 2017.
“Les Églises réformées et la tenue des dossiers au XVIIe siècle: un registre brouillon du
consistoire de Castres,” Le protestantisme français au XVIIe siècle, Angers, France, 21-23 June
2017.
“Le consistoire et ses archives,” Université de Lyon 3, Lyon, France, 4 December 2014.
With Philippe Chareyre, “Les consistoires,” La France huguenote: intégration
institutionnelle d’une minorité religieuse. Université de Pau et les Pays de l’Adour, Pau, France,
4 April 2013.
“Vivre ensemble. Paix civile et concorde religieuse entre catholiques et protestants aux
XVIe-XVIIe siècles,” Fédération de recherche: espaces, frontières, métissages. Université de Pau
et les Pays de l’Adour, Pau, France, 3 April 2013.
Moderator, Theology and Resistance, Religion and Resistance in Europe from the Middle
Ages to the 21st Century, University of Tartu, Estonia, 11-13 June 2012.
“The Practice of Church Discipline in Lutheran and Reformed Areas,” Entfaltung und
zeitgenössische Wirkung der Reformation im europäischen Kontext, Eisenach, Germany, 7-9
June 2012.
“Le consistoire réformé en France à l’époque moderne,” series of two lectures, Université
de Pau et les Pays de l’Adour, Pau, France, 24 and 31 November 2011.
“The Introduction of Communion Tokens and Pews in the French Reformed Churches,”
Colloque international, Anthropologie historique du protestantisme à l’époque moderne, Lyon,
France, 17-18 November 2011.
“Mythes et réalités autour des consistoires,” Journée d’études, Les institutions des Églises
reformées de France au XVIe siècle, Université d’Angers, France, 18 March 2011.
“Histoire matérielle et liturgie réformée aux 16e et 17e siècles,” Séminaire d’histoire de
régulations sociales, Université d’Angers, 16 March 2011 et séminaire d’histoire, Université du
Mans, France, 21 March 2011.
“The Formation of a Huguenot Social Identity,” Histoire, mémoire et identité en
mutations. Les huguenots en France et en diaspora (XVIe-XXIe siècles), Colloque international,
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Centro S. Franscini, Ascona, Switzerland, 10-15 October 2010.
“La réception d’une nouvelle langue liturgique parmi les réformés,” La cour de Nérac au
temps d’Henri de Navarre et de Marguerite de Valois, Nérac, France, 28-29 May 2010.
“Comment la réforme a pénétré dans les campagnes du Midi,” L'hérétique au village: les
minorités religieuses dans l’espace rural, Abbaye de Flaran, France, 9-11 October 2009.
“The Appeal of Calvinism in France,” Calvin und Calvinismus - Europäische
Perspectiven, Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany, 25-28 June 2009.
“Histoire matérielle et liturgie réformée à l’époque moderne,” Laboratoire de Recherche:
Mentalités et Croyances Modernes et Contemporaines, Département d’Histoire, Université Paul
Valéry – Montpellier III, France, 9 March 2009.
“Les contextes de la conversion à l’époque de la Réforme,” Maison de Science de
l’Homme de Montpellier et le Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Étude du Religieux, Université Paul
Valéry – Montpellier III, France, 6 February 2009.
Rapporteur, “Les pasteurs et leurs écrits,” Journée d’études, Université de Pau et du Pays
de l’Adour, Pau, France, 11 October 2008.
“Theory in Practice: Calvin’s Ecclesiology in the French Churches,” plenary address,
Ninth International Congress on Calvin Research, Emden, Germany, 22-26 August 2006.
“Urban Piety and the Reformed Tradition in Early Modern France,” Urban Life in Early
Modern France, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 10 June 2006.
“Un inventaire des registres de consistoire des Églises réformées de France aux XVIe et
XVIIe siècles,” La mesure du fait religieux: l’approche méthodologique des registres
consistoriaux (Espace calvinien européen XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Colloque International, Pau,
France, 9-11 June 2005.
“La Réforme et la hiérarchie sociale dans les petites villes,” La vie religieuse dans les
petites villes du Moyen Âge à nos jours, Colloque de la Société des Petites Villes, Mamers,
France, 18-19 March 2005.
“Fasting, Piety and Politics in the Reformed Tradition,” Colloque international -
Protestantisme(s) et autorité, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, France, 11-13 March 2004.
“The Synod in Reformed Tradition,” Conference on the Synod in Christian Tradition,
Bruges, Belgium, 12-14 September 2003, sponsored by the Fondazione per le science religiose
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Giovanni XXIII.
“Médiation et réconciliation dans les communautés réformées au XVIIe siècle,” keynote
address to the annual meeting of the Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français, Paris,
France, 22 May 2003.
“Disputes over Pewing in the French Reformed Churches,” Colloque international sur
l’architecture des temples réformées (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) en Europe et notamment en France,
Faculté de Théologie Protestante et Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III, Montpellier,
France, 15-17 May 2003.
“La vie quotidienne des réformés français d’après les registres des consistoires,” series of
six lectures at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), Section des Sciences
Religieuses, Paris, Université du Maine (Le Mans), and Université de Pau, France, January 2003.
“Idéologie réformatrice et comportement quotidien,” Formes de diffusion de la Réforme,
University of Haifa, Israel, 15-17 May 2000.
“L’Édit de Nantes et l’initiative judiciaire,” L’Édit de Nantes: sûreté et éducation,
Montauban, France, 15-17 October 1998.
“L’Édit de Nantes et l’établissement de la paix en Languedoc,” L’Édit de Nantes: paix
des armes, paix des âmes, Pau, France, 8-11 October 1998.
“The Huguenot Minority in Early Modern France,” Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Germany, 29 April 1998.
“Le consistoire réformé dans la France du XVIe siècle: une perspective américaine,”
Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 18 March 1998.
“Consistoires et itinéraires personnels,” Université de Paris - Sorbonne, Paris, France, 10
March 1998.
“Le consistoire réformé et la discipline sociale aux 16e et 17e siècles,” Université Paul
Valéry - Montpellier III, France, 13 February 1998.
“Sociability and Culpability: Conventions of Mediation and Reconciliation within the
Sixteenth-Century Huguenot Community,” series of lectures at University of St. Andrews,
University of Edinburgh and University of Warwick, England, November 1997.
“Le consistoire et les Eglises Réformées de France,” series of six lectures at the Ecole
Pratiques des Hautes Etudes (Paris), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris),
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Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français (Paris), and Institut de l’Histoire de la
Réformation (Geneva), March 1997.
“‘Superstition’ and the Reformed Consistory in France,” St. Andrews Reformation
Studies Institute. University of St Andrews, Scotland, March 1996.
“The Reformed Churches of France and Medieval Canon Law,” Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland, September 1989.
“Histoire sérielle: les procès d’hérésie, devant le Parlement de Toulouse, 1500-1560,”
Université de Paris - Sorbonne and Collège de France, February l986.
National
Chair, “Ways of Seeing the Bible,” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1-4 November 2018.
Chair, “Divided Loyalties in Sixteenth Century France: Constructing Polities in a
Religiously Plural World,” American Society of Church History, Washington DC, 4-7 January
2018.
Chair, “Holiness and Popular Religion, in Honor of Susan Karant-Nunn and Merry
Wiesner-Hanks, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Milwaukee, 26-29 October 2017.
Roundtable participant, Gender and Reformation: Honoring Merry Wiesner-Hanks and
Susan Karant-Nunn, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Milwaukee, 26-29 October
2017.
Commentator, “In Honor of Ray Mentzer IV: Roundtable: The Impact of Ray Mentzer:
Three Perspectives,” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Vancouver, 22-25 October 2015.
“The Consistory Register as Material Artifact,” Sixteenth Century Society and
Conference, New Orleans, 16-19 October 2014.
Chair and Commentator, The Early Reformation in Geneva and France: New
Perspectives from the Archives, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, New Orleans, 16-19
October 2014.
Chair and Commentator, Calvin, the French Reformers and “Nicodemism”: New
Perspectives, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, New Orleans, 16-19 October 2014.
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Organizer, Understandings of Gender and the Practice of Discipline in Reformed
Tradition, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 24-27 October
2013.
Chair, Negotiating Discipline with Consistories and Inquisitions, Sixteenth Century
Society and Conference, Cincinnati, 25-28 October 2012.
Panelist, Symposium on the Present State and Future Direction of Reformation Studies,
H.H. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 30 March
2012.
“The Reformation in France,” two-day seminar in conjunction with “Making Sense of the
Reformation,” NEH Summer Institute, H.H. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin College,
Grand Rapids, Michigan, 13-14 July 2009.
“Pastoral Ministry in the French Reformed Churches,” Thirteenth Biennial Calvin
Colloquium, Erskine Seminary, Due West, South Carolina, 25-26 January 2008.
“The Material Context of Reformed Worship in France,” Material Culture and the
Reformation, American Society of Church History, Washington, DC, 3-6 January 2008.
“Communities of Worship and the Reformed Churches of France,” Sixteenth Century
Society and Conference, Minneapolis, 25-27 October 2007.
“The Career of Robert Kingdon,” Luncheon Comments, American Society of Church
History, Washington D.C., January 2004.
“Masculinity and the Reformation in France,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,
Pittsburgh, 30 October-2 November 2003.
“The Reform of Ritual in Shaping the Confessional Identity of French Protestantism,”
Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, 27-29 March 2003.
“Acting on Calvin’s Ideas: The Church in France,” Calvin Studies Society, Grand
Rapids, 24-26 May 2001.
“The Experience of ‘Sin’ in the French Reformed World,” American Historical
Association, Boston, 4-7 January 2001.
“Social Discipline and Popular Piety,” The History of Christianity Revisited: Early
Modern Europe, American Society of Church History, Washington, DC, 7-10 January 1999.
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“The Reformed Churches of France and the Visual Arts,” Center of Theological Inquiry,
Princeton Theological Seminary, May 1995.
“The Troubled Status of the French Reformed Churches,” German Historical Institute,
Washington, D.C., September 1990.
Local
Organizer, “Martin Luther and the Reformation’s Artistic Challenges,” lecture by Jeffrey
Chipps Smith, University of Iowa, 26 September 2017.
“Material Culture and the Reformation,” Religious Studies Colloquium, University of
Iowa, 26 February 2013.
Moderator, “Religion and Civil Rights,” Symposium on the Latino Midwest, University
of Iowa, 11-13 October 2012.
Chair, “Cultural Manifestations: Calvin, Geneva and Utopian Yearnings,” Religion,
Literature and the Arts, University of Iowa, 23-26 August 2012.
“Medieval Religious Texts,” From Monks to Masters: The Medieval Manuscript and the
Early Printed Book, University of Iowa Museum of Art, 2 August 2007.
“Religious Culture, Whether American or European, is a Complex Affair,” European
Religion/American Religion: Why the Difference? University of Iowa, 20-21 April 2007.
Panel Organizer, “Understandings of Indecency and Obscenity in Abrahamic Religions,”
Obscenity: An Interdisciplinary Discussion, University of Iowa, 1-3 March 2007.
“Do People Attend Worship in France?” European Studies Conference, University of
Iowa, 3-4 March 2006.
SERVICE
Department
Member, Promotion & Tenure Committee for R. Cargill Fall 2018
Chair, Promotion & Tenure Committee for Hyaeweol Choi Summer 2018
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Member, Five Year review of Morten Schlutter Spring 2018
Chair, Department Consulting Group for Paul Dilley Fall 2017
Chair, Promotion & Tenure Committee for Paul Dilley Fall 2017
Chair, Third Year review of Paul Dilley Spring 2017
Chair, Five Year review of Richard Turner Spring 2016
Member, Third Year review of Robert Cargill Spring 2016
Chair, Department Consulting Group for Kristy Nabhan-Warren Fall 2015
Chair, Promotion & Tenure Committee for Kristy Nabhan-Warren Fall 2015
Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies Spring 2014
Chair, Search Committee, “Digital Media, Communication and Religion” 2013
Department Chair 2003-08 and 2009-2012
Graduate Studies Committee 2002-present
College
CLAS Review Committee, Department of French and Italian Spring 2016
NEH Summer Stipend Selection Committee 2011
CLAS Named Chairs and Professorships ad hoc committee 2011-14
Certificate Writing Work Group 2010
CLAS Committee on Hiring Proposal “Public Humanities in a
Digital World” 2010
College Consulting Group on Promotion & Tenure 2006
Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Classics Department 2005
Advisory Committee on African American Studies 2005
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Review Committee, Department of Communication Studies 2002
University
Humanities Advisory Board 2018-21
May Brodbeck Faculty Fellowship selection committee 2015
NEH Challenge Grant Advisory Committee 2005
Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center Internal Curriculum Advisory Board 2005-10
Committee on Endowed Faculty Positions 2004-07
Profession
Recent Manuscript Review
11 article manuscripts for Revue d’histoire du protestantisme
1 article manuscript for French Historical Studies
1 article manuscript for The Journal of Historical Sociology
1 book proposal for Routledge
Founders Prize Committee, Sixteenth Century Studies Society 2018
Finance Committee, Society for Reformation Research 2018
Book Review Correspondent, Cristianesimo nella storia 2016-present
Editorial Committee, Revue d’histoire du protestantisme 2014-present
Advisory Board, History of Christian Ecumenism, Bologna, Italy 2014-present
At-large member, Governing Board, H.H. Meeter Center for Calvin
Studies , Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 2010-2018
Editorial Committee, Archives des Églises réformées de France
(monograph series) 2007-present
American Commissioner, Commission Internationale d’Histoire et
d’Étude du Christianisme, International Congress of Historical Sciences
(UNESCO) 2006-present
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Chair, Endowment Campaign, Sixteenth Century
Society and Conference 2005-2018
General Editor, Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies (monograph series) 1996-2006
Editorial Committee, Early Modern Studies (monograph series) 2007-2017
Editorial Committee, Sixteenth Century Journal 1991-present
International Board of Calvin Scholars, Bibliotheca Calviniana 1995-2000
Graduate Language Examiner, University of Wyoming 1996-2001
Editorial Board, Contemporary French Civilization 1977-1989
Member, Comité scientifique, Colloque international, "Définir l’hétérodoxie dans le
protestantisme, entre Églises et États (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)," Lyon (France), 30 June-1 July
2017.
Panel Commentator, “Religious Nonconformity and State Power after the Revocation of
Nantes,” Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 3-5 November 2016.
Panel Chair and Commentator, “Honor, Religion, and Sexuality in Early Modern France
and Beyond,” Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 3-5 November 2016.
Panel Organizer and Moderator, “The Limits of Consistorial Authority: Geneva and
France,” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Bruges, Belgium, 18-20 August 2016.
Panel co-organizer and moderator, “Migration of Religious Ideas,” 22nd Congress of the
International Committee of Historical Sciences, Jinan, China, 27-28 August 2015.
Selection Committee Member, NEH Summer Seminar, “Persecution, Toleration, Coexistence:
Early Modern Responses to Religious Pluralism,” Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, July-August 2013.
Member, Comité scientifique, Colloque International, Anthropologie historique du
protestantisme à l’époque moderne, Lyon, France, 17-18 November 2011.
Co-organizer, Colloque international, Le protestantisme et les œuvres en Europe.
Institutions et pratiques charitables (XVIe-XIXe siècles). Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse,
16-18 June 2011.
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Panel chair, Marguerite de Valois et ses amis, La cour de Nérac au temps de Henri de
Navarre et de Marguerite de Valois, Nérac (France), 28-29 May 2010.
Co-organizer, Colloque international, Agir pour l’église. Ministères et charges
ecclésiastiques dans les Églises réformées (XVIe-XVIIe siècles), La Rochelle, 4-6 June 2009.
Organizer, “Institutional Vectors for the Reform of France,” panel at Sixteenth Century
Society and Conference, Geneva, 28-30 May 2009.
Commentator, “Memory and the Legacy of the Francophone Reformations for Catholics
and Huguenots,” panel at Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Geneva, 28-30 May 2009.
Organizer, three panels for international conference on “Calvin and His Influence, 1509-
2009,” Geneva, 24-27 May 2009.
Co-organizer, Colloque international. Dire l’interdit: le vocabulaire de la censure et de
l’exclusion. Avignon, 7-9 June 2007.
Panel Organizer, “Religion among Slavs in the New World,” The Religious Space of East
Central Europe, Open to the West and to the East, Commission Internationale d’Histoire et
d’Études du Christianisme, Lublin (Poland) and Lviv (Ukraine), September 2007.
Co-organizer, John Calvin and Roman Catholicism, biennial meeting of the Calvin
Studies Society, University of Notre Dame, 5-7 April 2007.
Co-organizer, Colloque International. La mesure du fait religieux: pertinence et limites
de l’analyse quantitative des registres consistoriaux. Pau, June 2005.
Member, Comité scientifique, Colloque international “Philippe Duplessis-Mornay,”
Saumur, 13-15 May 2004.
Member, Comité scientifique, Colloque international “Protestantisme(s) et autorité,”
Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 11-13 mars 2004.
Co-organizer, Colloque international sur l’architecture des temples réformées (XVIe-
XVIIe siècles) en Europe et notamment en France, Faculté de Théologie Protestante and
Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III, Montpellier, 15-17 May 2003.
Grant and fellowship reviews for:
German Israeli Foundation 2009
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1994, 1996, 2004 &
2006
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Australian Research Council 2004
Swiss National Science Foundation 2002
National Endowment for the Humanities
Travel to Collections Grants 1989 & 1986
Division of Research Programs - Texts 1989
Newberry Library 1985-1995
Promotion and tenure reviews for:
Luther College 2018
University of Birmingham (UK) 2017
Oxford Brookes University (UK) 2008 & 2016
University of Mississippi 2014
Louisiana State University 2012
University of Nebraska 1994, 1998, 2005 & 2012
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School 2012
Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada) 2011
Brigham Young University 2011
Missouri University of Science and Technology 2011
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 2011
University of South Carolina 2009
Stanford University 2008
Hope College 2007
East Carolina University 2007
University of Aberdeen (UK) 2002 & 2007
Furman University 2000 & 2007
University of Calgary 1995 & 2006
Duquesne University 2006
University of Arizona 2000 & 2006
Colorado State University 1998 & 2004
Colby College 2004
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis 2004
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 2003
Western Washington State University 2001
North Dakota State University 2001
Boston University 2000
Rhode Island College 1998
University of Northern Iowa 1998
University of Akron 1998
Indiana University 1997
University of Connecticut 1994
16 letters of recommendation for undergraduates, graduate students, recent Ph.D.
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recipients, and colleagues in the profession
PUBLIC
“Understandings of Friendship: Luther and Calvin,” First Presbyterian Church, Cedar
Rapids, 25 August 2019.
“Remembering the Reformation,” series of three lectures at the First Presbyterian
Church, Cedar Rapids, 7, 14, 21 October 2018.
“Luther at 500,” Talk of Iowa, Iowa Public Radio, 31 October 2017.
“Luther and the Book,” Iowa Bibliophiles, University of Iowa, 11 October 2017.
“The Reformers,” First Presbyterian Church, Cedar Rapids, 19 January 2014.
“La liturgie réformée et sa réception par les fidèles,” Église réformée d’Angers, 15 March
2011.
“Martin Luther and John Calvin on Taking Human Life,” First Presbyterian Church,
Cedar Rapids, 12 September 2010.
“What did the Reformers Believe about the Origin and Purpose of Human Life?” First
Presbyterian Church, Cedar Rapids, 16 May 2010.
“The State of the Christian World on the Eve of the Reformation,” First Presbyterian
Church, Cedar Rapids, 14 April 2010.
“Religious Tolerance in Early New Amsterdam,” Huguenot Heritage, New York, NY, 3
December 2009.
“Happy 500th Birthday, John Calvin,” Geneva Campus Ministry, University of Iowa, 3
April 2009.
“La liturgie réformée et sa réception par les fidèles,” L’année Calvin, Musée Jeanne
d’Albret, Orthez (France), 13 February 2009; and Société d'histoire du protestantisme de
Montpellier (France), 28 February 2009.
“Friends and Neighbors at the Time of the Reformation,” lecture at Gloria Dei Lutheran
Church, Cedar Rapids, 2 November 2008.
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“Religious Conflict during the Reformation,” series of two lectures at the First
Presbyterian Church, Cedar Rapids, 4 and 11 November 2007.
“John Calvin and the Reformed Tradition,” series of three lectures at the First
Presbyterian Church, Cedar Rapids, 4, 18, and 25 April 2004.
“The Huguenot Diaspora,” Huguenot Society of Montana, November 1998.
“The Versailles Palace,” Heritage Christian School, 30 April 1997.
“The Popular Reformation and Martin Luther,” series of two lectures at the First
Lutheran Church, Bozeman, November 1996.
“Dante and the Italian Renaissance,” Heritage Christian School, Bozeman, March 1996
and April 2000.
“The Consistory and Morals Control in the Calvinist Reformation,” series of three
lectures at Presbyterian Church, Bozeman, November 1994.
“John Calvin and the Reordering of Society,” Christus Collegium, Bozeman, September
1991.
Projects funded by Montana Committee for the Humanities (state NEH affiliate)
Project Director, “Public History and the Gulf War,” 24-25 April 1992, Bozeman.
Project Director, “Malcolm Miller’s Chartres,” 24 February 1989, Bozeman.
Planning Committee Member and Panelist, “Small Towns and Villages in the Urban
Age,” 5-7 February 1984, Bozeman.
Project Director, “Martin Luther: A 500 Year Perspective,” 4 November 1983, Bozeman.