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• 100% financial support through
the Fulbright Foundation and other fellowship programs
• 19 academic positions attained
internationally since our inception in 1989
AREAS OF RESEARCH
Current Ph.D. students working on their dissertations:
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Tom Donlan |
The Influence of François de Sales (1567-1622) on
Counter-Reformation France and the Sisters of the Visitation |
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Julie Kang |
Winning the
Catholic Reformation through the Conversion of Female
Protestants: The Education of Les Nouvelles Catholiques in
Seventeenth-Century France |
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Mary Kovel |
The
Significance of Hair and Head Coverings in Sixteenth- and
Seventeenth-Century England |
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Samantha Kuhn |
The Social
Context and Attitudes of German Humanist-Knight Ulrich von
Hutten |
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COMPLETED
DISSERTATIONS |
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Brandon Hartley, "War and Tolerance:
Catholic Polemic in Lyon During the French Religious Wars,"
2007. |
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James J. Blakeley, "Negotiating the
'Reformation from Without': Popular Responses to Religious
Change in the Pays de Vaud," 2006. |
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Victoria Christman, "Drama, Death, and
Dissent: Inquisition in the Early Modern Low Countries," 2005. |
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Joshua L. Rosenthal, "The Sword That Divides
and Bonds That Tie: Faith and
Family in the French Wars of Religion," 2005. |
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Robert Christman, "Heretics in Luther's
Homeland: The Controversy over Originial Sin in Late
Sixteenth-Century Mansfeld," 2004. |
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Joel Van Amberg, "A Real Presence: Religious
and Social Dynamics of the Eucharistic Controversies in Early
Modern Augsburg, 1520-1530," 2004. |
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Michael W. Bruening,
"Bern, Geneva, or Rome? The Struggle for Religious Conformity
and Confessional Unity in Early Reformation Switzerland," 2002.
Revised edition published as
Calvinism's First Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays
de Vaud, 1528-1559, Studies in
Early Modern Religious Reforms 4 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006). |
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Jonathan Reid, "King's Sister—Queen of
Dissent: Marguerite of Navarre, 1492-1549, and her Evangelical
Network," 2001. |
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John Frymire, "Pestilence and Reformation:
Catholic Preaching and a Recurring Crisis in Sixteenth-Century
Germany," 2001. |
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Peter A. Dykema, "Conflicting Expectations:
Parish Priests in Late Medieval Germany," 1998. |
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Scott M. Manetsch,
"Between Geneva and Paris: Theodore de Beza and the Pacification
of the Reformed Movement in France, 1997. Published as
Theodore Beza and the Quest for Peace in
France, 1572-1598 (Leiden, Boston:
E.J. Brill, 2000). |
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Michael Milway, "The Burden and the Beast:
An Oracle of Apocalyptic Reform in Early Sixteenth-Century
Salzburg," 1997. |
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J. Jeffery Tyler,
"Banishing the Bishops: The 'Episcopus Exclusus' in Late
Medieval and Early Modern Germany," 1995. Published as
Lord of the Sacred City: The 'Episcopus
Exclusus' in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany,
Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 72 (Leiden: E.J.
Brill, 1999). |
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Robert James Bast,
"Honor Your Fathers: The Emergence of a Patriarchal Ideology in
Early Modern Germany," 1993. Revised edition published as
Honor Your Fathers: Catechisms and the
Emergence of a Patriarchal Ideology in Germany, 1400-1600,
Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 63 (Leiden, New
York: E.J. Brill, 1997). |
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Curtis V. Bostick, "The Antichrist and the
Lollards: Apocalypticism in Late Medieval and Reformation
England," 1993. Published under the same title, Studies in
Medieval and Reformation Thought 70 (Leiden, Boston: E.J. Brill,
1998). |
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Andrew Colin Gow, "The Red Jews:
Anti-Semitism in an Apocalyptic Age, 1200-1600," 1993. Revised
edition published under the same title, Studies in Medieval and
Reformation Thought 55 (Leiden, New York: E.J. Brill, 1995). |
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Sigrun Haude, "The
Rule of Fear: The Impact of Anabaptist 'Terror,' 1534-1535,"
1993. Revised edition published as
In the Shadow of Savage Wolves: Anabaptist Muenster and the
German Reformation during the 1530s,
Studies in Central European Histories (Boston: Humanities Press,
2000). |
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Eric Leland Saak, "Religio
Augustini: Jordan of Quedlinburg and the Augustinian Tradition
in Late Medieval Germany," 1993. Revised edition published as
High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian
Platform Between Reform and Reformation, 1292-1524
, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 89 (Boston: E.J.
Brill, 2002). |
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Marjory E. Lange (English major, history
minor), "Telling Tears in the English Renaissance," 1993.
Published under the same title, Studies in the History of
Christian Thought 70 (Leiden, New York: E.J. Brill, 1996). |
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Brad S. Gregory (1989,
M.A. University of Arizona; 1996, Ph.D. Princeton University),
"The Anathema of Compromise: Christian Martyrs in the
Reformation and Counter-Reformation," 1996. Revised edition
published as Salvation at Stake:
Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe,
Harvard Historical Series 134 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1999). Winner of the 2001 John Gilmary Shea
prize. |
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