Calvin Lane

Area: Medieval and Early Modern Europe; England’s Long Reformation Education: BA (History and Religious Studies) University of North Carolina Calvin Lane holds a Ballard-Seashore Fellowship this year and will defend his dissertation for the PhD in the spring of 2010. With comprehensive exams completed in western religious history from the late ancient to the early modern periods, Lane’s research is in the English reformation. His dissertation, “Finding Elizabeth: History, Polemic, and the Laudian redefinition of Conformity,” considers polemical literature in the seventeenth century. With grants from the Mellon Foundation, the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, and the Graduate College of the University of Iowa, Lane has performed research at the Folger Library, the Newberry Library, and several archives in the United Kingdom. He has published articles and book reviews in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Reformation and Renaissance Review, The Journal of Early Modern History, and Anglican and Episcopal History. Lane’s teaching experience ranges from such courses as “The Judeo-Christian Tradition” to “Introduction to Islam.”