Howard Rhodes, Department of Religious Studies

314 Gilmore Hall • Iowa City, IA 52242 • 319-335-2164

Curriculum Vitae
Howard B. Rhodes

Business Address:
Department of Religious Studies
314 Gilmore Hall
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242

Phone: 319–335–2168
E-mail: howard-rhodes@uiowa.edu

EDUCATION
2000-2006       Ph.D., Religion, Ethics, and Politics, Princeton University
1998-2000       M.A., Religion, Ethics, and Politics, Princeton University
1996-1998       M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School
1992-1995       B.A. (Summa Cum Laude), English and Religious Studies, University of
North Carolina – Greensboro

POSITIONS
2004-2005       Lecturer, Rutgers University
2005-present    Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
            Graduate Prize Fellowship, University Center for Human Values, 2002-2003.
            Dissertation Research Award, Princeton University Center for the Study of
     Religion, 2002-2003. (Declined.)
            H.B. Earhart Fellowship, Earhart Foundation, 2000-2001 and 2001-2002.
            Paul Ramsey Fellowship, Princeton University, 1999-2000.
Phi Beta Kappa (Epsilon Chapter), 1996.

CURRENT COURSES
          War and Peace in Western Religious Thought
            Religion and Democracy
            Religion, Ethics, and Politics
            Ethics and Modern Religious Thought

INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

Public Lecture, “H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture,” Religion and Politics
      Forum, First Presbyterian Church, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 12, 2006.
Public Lecture, “Constantine’s Influence on Christianity,” Religion and Politics
     Forum, First Presbyterian Church, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 5, 2006.
“Recognition and Respect in Contemporary Interpretations of Aquinas’s Legal
      Ethics,” AAR – Upper Mid-West, April 1, 2006.
Panel Discussant (with Professor Marcella David), “The Ethics of War,” event
      sponsored by the University of Iowa Freethinkers, March 1, 2006.
Panel Discussant, “Christianity and War,” International Workshop on War and
     Violence in Religion, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, February 20-22,
     2004.
“Religion and First Amendment Jurisprudence.” Given in the course
     Constitutional and Military Law (Professor Patrick Finnegan), United States
Military Academy, West Point, NY. Fall 2002 and Spring 2003.
“Supreme Emergencies and the Jus ad Bellum / Jus in Bello Distinction,” 9th
Annual Graduate Student Ethics Conference at the University of Chicago
Divinity School, April 2002.
“Introduction to the History and Concepts of Just War Theory,” United States
     Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia. Fall 2001.
“Ernst Troeltsch and the ‘Secular’: A Consideration of John Milbank’s Criticisms
     of Troeltsch,” Congress 2000: On the Future of the Study of Religion, Harvard
     University and Boston University, September 2000.
“On John Milbank’s Theology and Social Theory: The Limits of Ecclesiology as
     Social Theory,” Annual Conference of the College Theology Society,
     Villanova University, June 2000.

PUBLICATIONS
Review of Terrence Penelhum, Christian Ethics and Human Nature in Koinonia
     (Fall 2001).
            “Ernst Troeltsch as a Secular Theologian? The Secular and the Religious in
     Troeltsch’s Philosophy of Religion” in Mitteilungen der Ernst-Troeltsch
     Gesellschaft XIII (Augsburg, Germany, 2000. ISSN 0178-3025).
            Review of Jedediah Purdy, For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in
     America Today in Religion and Values in Public Life v. 7, no. 4 (Fall 1999).
     [Publication of The Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard
     Divinity School].

RESEARCH LANGUAGES: French, German, Spanish, and Latin.

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