Ralph Keen, Department of Religious Studies

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

Curriculum Vitae
Ralph Keen

Business Address:

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

Phone: 319-335-2167

E-mail: ralph-keen@uiowa.edu

EDUCATION

1990   Ph.D., Chicago (History of Christianity)

1980   M.A., Yale (Classics)

1979   B.A., Columbia (Greek)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

1998 - present    Associate Professor, University of Iowa

Spring 2003        Visiting Associate Professor of History of Christianity, Harvard Divinity School

1993-98            Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

1991-93            Newman Assistant Professor of Religion, Alaska Pacific University

AWARDS AND HONORS

Arts and Humanities Initiative grant, 2002
International Travel Grant, University of Iowa, 2000
Developmental Leave, University of Iowa, 1996
Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1994, 1995
Forschungsstipendium, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, 1994-95
NEH Summer Stipend (for research at Columbia University), 1993
Faculty Research Grant, Alaska Pacific University, 1992
NEH Travel to Collections Grant (to Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel), 1991
Faculty Research Grant, H. H. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1991
Participant in NEH summer seminar at Northwestern University, 1990

TEACHING

Courses recently taught
Undergraduate GE Upper-level and Graduate
32:119 Jewish Mysticism
32:001 Judaism, Christianity and Islam
32:132 Medieval & Reformation Religious Thought
32:051 Religious Thinkers of the West
32:154 Religious Conflict in the Early Modern Period
32:136 Religious Thought in the Enlightenment
32:080 Spirituality and Mysticism
32:222 Seminar in Historical Theology
32:203 Western Religious Traditions

Student supervision
Supervisor of over 10 Honors projects
2 Ph.D. theses supervised (one completed and awaiting publication)

RESEARCH

Books
Divine and Human Authority in Reformation Thought: German Theologians on Political Order, 1520-1555. Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, 55. Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1997

Editor, Johannes Cochlaeus, Philippicae I-VII, 2 vols. Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, 54. Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1995-96.

A Checklist of Melanchthon Imprints through 1560. Sixteenth Century Bibliography, 27. St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1988.

Editor and translator, Johannes Cochlaeus, Responsio ad Johannem Bugenhagium Pomeranum. Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, 44. Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1988.

John Guy, R.K., Clarence H. Miller, and R. McGugan, eds., St. Thomas More, Debellation of Salem and Bizance. The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, 10. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987. (Principal editor of text & co-author of commentary)

Selected journal articles and book chapters

Contributions to Books
"Teaching the Spanish Mystics: Religious Texts in a Secular Setting," Teaching Teresa of Avila, ed. Alison Weber, MLA "Approaches to Teaching" series. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006.

"Heidelberg Catechism," "Melalanchthon, Philipp," "Second Helvetic Confession," Encyclopedia of Protestantism, ed. Hans Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge, 2005.

"Erasmus, Desiderius," "Luther, Martin," "Melanchthon, Philip," "On the Jews and their Lies," "Reuchlin, Johann," Encyclopedia of Antisemitism, ed. Richard S. Levy. Haden, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.

"Arminius," "Berulle," "De Paul," "De Sales," "Pascal," "Shabbetai Zevi," "Suarez," in Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution 1600-1720, ed. Christopher Baker. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002.

"Thomas More," in The Reformation Theologians, ed. Carter Lindberg. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, pp. 284-97.

"Naturwissenschaft und Frömmigkeit bei Melanchthon," Melanchthon und die Naturwissenschaften seiner Zeit, ed. Günter Frank and Stefan Rhein. Melanchthon-Schriften der Stadt Bretten, 4. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbeke, 1998, pp. 73-83.

"Humanism and the Reformation in Controversy," in Europa: Wiege des Humanismus und der Reformation, ed. Hermann Boventer and Uwe Baumann (5. Internationales Symposion der Amici Thomae Mori). Frankfurt and Bern: Peter Lang, 1997, pp. 11-28.

"The Fathers in Counter-Reformation Theology in the Pre-Tridentine Period," in The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West, ed. Irena Backus. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997, vol. 2, 701-43.

"The Printer's Copy for the Supplication of Souls in the 1557 English Works," Appendix E (pp. 455-81) of The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. 7. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990.

Articles
"The Allure of the Past: Ancient Ideals and Reformation Realities," 2004 Margaret Mann Philips Lecture, Erasmus of Rotterdam Society; Erasmus of Rotterdam Yearbook 2006.

"Melanchthon and His Roman Catholic Opponents," Lutheran Quarterly 12 (1998) 417-27.

"Political Authority and Ecclesiology in Melanchthon's De Ecclesiae Autoritate," Church History 65 (1996) 1-14.

"Humanism and Reformation in Controversy," Thomas-Morus-Jahrbuch 1995 (1996) 84-91.

"Thomas Morus as An Opponent of Heresy: The German Connection," Thomas-Morus-Jahrbuch 1994 (1995) 115-21.

"The Limits of Authority and Obedience in the Later Calvin," Calvin Theological Journal 27 (1992) 252-76.

"The Arguments and Audiences of Cochlaeus's Philippica VII," Catholic Historical Review 78 (1992) 371-94.

"Nouvelles facettes de l'histoire des idées," Moreana 110 (1992) 115-18.

"Defending the Pious: Melanchthon and the Reformation in Albertine Saxony, 1539," Church History 60 (1991) 180-95.

Selected invited papers and addresses
Over 50 reviews and 25 papers and public presentations

SERVICE

Department service
Director of undergraduate studies, 1995-99, 2001-present
Honors advisor, 1997-present

College and University service
Judge, Outstanding Graduate Students as Mentors competition, (Graduate Student Senate) 2006.
Judge, Jakobsen Graduate Student Conference (Graduate Student Senate), 2006.
Member, Advisory Committee & Chair of Lecture Committee, European Studies Group, International Programs, 2005-present.
Member, CLAS Scholarship Committee, 2001-04 (Chair, 2003-04)
Member Faculty Advisory Committee, UI Honors Program, 2003-05; scholarship selection committee, 20006.
Member, International Programs Scholarship & Awards Committee, 2003-present; selection panelist, 2005-06.
Advisory Board member UI, Center for the Book, 1996- (chair, 2000)
Steering Committee member, Medieval Studies Program, 1999-2001

Professional service
Member of the Editorial Board, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 2001-
Member of the Editorial Board, Studies in Early Modern Religious Reform (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 1999-
Member of the Finance Committee, American Society of Church History, 1999-2003 (Chair, 2001-03); on the Council, 1996-2000; Nominating Committee, 1999-2001; and Committee on Research, 1998-2000
Member of the Editorial Board, Moreana, 1986-97

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