T. Dwight Bozeman, Department of Religious Studies

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

Curriculum Vitae
T. Dwight Bozeman

Business Address:

Department of Religious Studies
408 Gilmore Hall
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Phone: 319-335-2177

E-mail: d-bozeman@uiowa.edu

EDUCATION

Duke University, Ph. D. 1974
Union Theological Seminary (VA.), Th. M. 1970
University of Bonn, W. Germany 1968-69
Union Theological Seminary (NYC), B.D. 1968
Eckerd College, B.A. (with "High Honors") 1964

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor, University of Iowa, 1980-present
Associate Professor, University of Iowa, 1978-80
Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, 1975-78
Instructor, University of Iowa, 1974-75

HONORS AND AWARDS

1977 University of Iowa Summer Development Award
1978 James Henley Thornwell Award for article in Journal of American History
1980 University of Iowa Development Award
1980 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
1984 University of Iowa Summer Development Award
1986 University of Iowa Development Award
1991 University of Iowa Development Award
1994 Eckerd College William H. Kadel Distinguished Career Achievement Award
1995 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
1997 University of Iowa Development Award
2003 University of Iowa Development Award
2005 Symposium on Precisianist Strain, Department of History, University of Iowa

TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Courses recently taught
Undergraduate
32:144/16A:124 Religious Thought in America 1860-Present
32:196 Religion Senior Majors’ Seminar
32:141 Varieties of American Religion

Student Supervision
4 Honors Theses supervised
4 M.A. Theses supervised
13 Ph.D. Theses supervised

New courses developed and other teaching innovations
16A:151 History Majors’ Colloquium: Religious Conflict in American History
32:196 Senior Majors’ Seminar: Self and Society
32:196 Religion Majors’ Seminar: Parts and Wholes
32:145/16A:118 Ultraconservative and Radical Theologies in American History
32: 213/16:275: Religious Exotica in American History
32:144/16A:124 Revolutionary Theologies in American History

RESEARCH

Research interests
American Religious Thought, Anglo-American Puritanism, Exotic Religious Groups and Movements

Books
Protestants in an Age of Science: The Baconian Ideal and Ante-bellum American Religious Thought (University of North Carolina Press, 1977).

"To Live Ancient Lives": The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism (University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1988).

Sydney V. James, John Clarke and His Legacies: Religion and Law in Colonial Rhode Island, ed. Theodore Dwight Bozeman (University Park, PA, 1999).

The Precisionist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638 (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2004).

Journal articles and book chapters
13 articles and chapters including the following recent and selected publications:
"Biblical Primitivism: An Approach to New England Puritanism," in Richard T. Hughes, ed. The American Quest For the Primitive Church, (Urbana, 1988).

"Federal Theology and the 'National Covenant': An Elizabethan Presbyterian Case Study," Church History, Dec., 1992.

"The Glory of the 'Third Time': John Eaton as Contra-Puritan," Journal of Eclesiastical History, Oct., 1996, pp. 638-54.

"Neglected Resources in Scholarship: Puritan Studies," Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. Winter, 1997, pp. 14-20.

"John Cotton and the American Antinomian Insurgency," Historical Process [Russian language journal] II, 2002, pp. 83-106.

“John Clarke and the Complications of Liberty.” Church History 75 (March, 2006), pp. 69-93.

Selected Invited addresses & invited speaker

Millersville University, Pennsylvania, Conference on English and American Puritanism. Presented paper: "The National and Gracious Covenants Reconsidered." April 1991.

Invited speaker, Texas Christian University. Presented “’Stupendous Facts’: Walter Scott’s Primitivist Spirituality.” 1997.

Invited speaker, Newport [Rhode Island] Historical Society lecture series on "Religious Liberty in Colonial America." April 2003.

American Society of Church History, Savannah, Georgia. Presented paper: "John Clarke and the Complications of Liberty." April 2005.

Recent and current research support
2 NEH faculty fellowships, 1980, 1995
U of I Development award, 2003

SERVICE

Departmental service
Department of Religious Studies (comparable roster of History service)
Bicentennial Committee, 1975.
Undergraduate Committee, Spring, 1976, 1976-77. Chair, 1977-78, 1981-82.
Scholar's Press Committee, Fall, 1977.
Forell replacement committee, Spring, 1978.
Search Committee (Islamics), 1979.
Lectures Committee, Chair-person, 1981-82.
Core Course Committee, 1981-82.
Undergraduate Committee, 1981-82.
Summer Search Committee, 1981.
Graduate Committee, 1982-83, 1984-85. Chair, 1983-84, 1985-86..
Lectures Committee, Spring Semester, 1987.
Lectures Committee, Spring, 1988.
Search Committee, Chair, 1988-89.
Graduate Committee, Spring, 1988.
Search Committee, 1989-90.
Committee on Faculty Peer Reviews, Spring, 1990.
Lectures Committee, 1990-91.
Search Committee, Spring 1992.
Graduate Committee, Spring 1992.
Search Committee, Chair, Fall and Spring 1992-93.
Search Committee for Readings in Humanities Project, Translation Laboratory, 1993.
Advisory Committee for Foreign Language Grant, Readings in the Humanities
Program, Spring 1993 through Spring, 1996.
Search Committee, Spring 1995.
Search Committee, Chair, 1997-98.
Search Committee, 1998.
Undergraduate Committee, 1999-2000.
Planning Committee, 1999-2000.
Search Committee, Chair, Fall and Spring 2000-2001.
Search Committee, Chair, Spring 2002.
Peer Review Committee, Spring 2002.
Graduate Committee, Fall, 2002.
Director of Graduate Studies, Spring 2003.
Search Committee, Chair, 2004-2005.
Promotions Committe, Chair, 2005
Review Committee, 2006

Department of History
Graduate Admissions Committee, 1977-78.
Search Committee, 1978-79.
Search Committee, 1980-81.
Graduate Admissions Committee, 1983-84.
Faculty Colloquium Coordinator, 1984-85.
Graduate Admission Committee, 1984-85.
Faculty Colloquium Coordinator, Fall, 1985
Search committee, 1986-87.
Graduate Awards Committee, Spring 1987.
Graduate Admission Committee, 1987-88.
Graduate Admissions Committee, 1988-89.
Graduate Admissions Committee, 1989-90.
Search Committee, 1990-91.
Subcommittee on Joint Appointments, Spring 1992.
Junior Faculty Review Committee, 1997.
Junior Faculty Review Committee, 1998.
Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 1999.
Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2000.
Junior Faculty Review Committee, Spring, 2000.
Chair of Promotion Committee, Fall, 2000.
Junior Faculty Three-Year Review Committee, 2001-2002.
Ancient History Search Committee, 2002-2003.
Promotions Committee, Chair, 2005-2006.

University Service
University General Advisor, Fall, 1974. Spring and Fall,
1975-76, Spring and Fall, 1976-77, Spring and Fall, 1977-78, Fall and Spring, 1978-79, and Fall, 1979.

University Library Committee, 1977 78, Chair: 1978-79, Fall, 1979.

Committee on Parking Fines and Appeals, 1983-84.

SR delegate to Liberal Arts Faculty Assembly 1985-87.

Internal Reviewer for the College of Liberal Arts' review of Department of
Classics, 1995-96.

Committee on Parking Fines and Appeals, Fall, 1996.

Working with Thomas Baldridge, prepared for and gave interviews with visiting scholars in the International Visitor Program in 1998 (Russian women scholars), 1999 (Moroccan Muslims), and 2001 (Pakistanis).

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