Raymond Mentzer, Department of Religious Studies -- The University of Iowa

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

Curriculum Vitae
Raymond Mentzer

Business Address:

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

Phone: 319-335-2161
E-mail: raymond-mentzer@uiowa.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Winconsin, 1973
M.A., University of Wisconsin, 1970
A.B., Fordham University, 1967

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Daniel J. Krumm Family Chair in Reformation Studies, University of Iowa, 2001-present

Directeur d'études associé, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Religieuses, Paris, 1997 & 2003

Professor of History, Montana State University, 1973-2001

AWARDS AND HONORS

Cox Family Award for Creative Research and Teaching, Montana State University, 1997
National Huguenot Society Book Prize, 1995
Harold J. Grimm Prize, 1987
Phi Kappa Phi, 1971
Phi Beta Kappa, 1967

GRANTS

NEH, Co-director, Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, 2003
NEH Fellowship, 1997-98, 1989-90 & 1981-82
J.K. Cameron Faculty Fellow, University of St Andrews (UK), 1997
Camargo Foundation Fellow, 1998 & 1990
NEH Summer Stipend, 1994 & 1984
American Philosophical Society Grant, 1992
H.H. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Summer Fellow, 1989
NEH Travel to Collections Grant, 1988
Newberry Library Short-Term Fellow, 1978
NEH Summer Seminar Fellow, 1978
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1975-76

TEACHING

Courses recently taught
032:025 Medieval Religion and Culture
032:026 Modern Religion and Culture
032:085 Early Modern Catholicism
032:154 Religious Conflict/Early Modern Period
032:223 Reformation Theology
032:262 Readings in History of Christianity

Student Supervision
Ph.D. candidates: 3
Graduate Committee Memberships: 15
Undergraduate Advisees: 16

New courses developed/other teaching innovations
Developing courses on religious conflict and varieties of religious reform in early modern Europe.

RESEARCH

Books
Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685. Edited by Raymond Mentzer and Andrew Spicer. (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Blood and Belief: Family Survival and Confessional Identity among the Provincial Huguenot Nobility. (Purdue University Press, 1994).

Sin and the Calvinists: Morals Control and the Consistory in the Reformed Tradition. Editor. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 32. (Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 1994. Second edition, 2002).

Heresy Proceeding in Languedoc, 1500-1560. (Philpdelphia, 1984).

Journal articles and book chapters
“The Synod in Reformed Tradition,” in Synod and Synodality: Theology, History, Canon Law and Ecumenism in New Contact, International Colloquium Bruges 2003. Edited by Alberto Melloni and Silvia Scatena. Christianity and History. Series of the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2005), pp. 173-184.

“The Huguenot Minority in Early Modern France,” in Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West. Edited by James D. Tracy and Marguerite Ragnow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 185-206.

“Fashioning Reformed Identity in Early Modern France,” in Confessionalization in Europe, 1555-1700: Essays in Honor and Memory of Bodo Nischan. Edited by John M. Headley, et. al., (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 243-255.

“Sociability and Culpability: Conventions of Mediation and Reconciliation within the Sixteenth-Century Huguenot Community,” in Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora. Edited by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Randy J. Sparks (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2003), pp. 45-57.

“Laity and Liturgy in the French Reformed Tradition,” in History Has Many Voices. Edited by Lee P. Wandel, Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 63 (Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2003), pp. 71-92.

“Acting on Calvin's Ideas: The Church in France,” in Calvin and the Church. Calvin Studies Society Papers 2001. Edited by David Foxgrover (Grand Rapids: Calvin Studies Society, 2002), pp. 29-41.

“Anthrolopogie historique: les rituels réformés (XVIe-XVIIe siècles),” with Françoise Chevalier, Christian Grosse and Bernard Roussel, Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français 148 (2002): 979-1009.

"La Place et le role des femmes dans les Eglises reformees," Archives de Sciences sociales des Religions 113 (janvier-mars 2001): 119-132.

With Ellery Schalk, “Marseille and the Urban Experience in Early Modern France: Communal Values, Religious Reform, and Absolutism,” Historical Reflections/Réflections historiques 27 (2001): 241-300.

“Order in the Church,” Christian History 71 (Summer 2001): 16-20.

"Morals and Moral Regulation in Protestant France," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31:1 (Summer 2000): 1-20.

"The Reformed Churches of France and the Visual Arts," in P. Corby Finney, ed., Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition (Grand Rapids, 1999), pp. 199-230.

"L'Edit de Nantes et la chambre de justice du Languedoc," Bulletin de la Societe del'Histoire du Protestantisme Francais 144 (1998): 321-338.

"The Persistence of 'Superstition and Idolatry' among Rural French Calvinists," ChurchHistory 65 (1996): 220-233.

"Disciplina nervus ecclesiae: The Calvinist Reform of Morals at Nimes," Sixteenth Century Journal 18 (1987): 13-39.

Selected invited papers and addresses
“'No benches are reserved'”? Seating Disputes in the French Reformation Church,” H.H. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies Biennial Lecture, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich., April 2005.

“Masculinity and the Reformation in France,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, November 2003.

“The Reform of Ritual in Shaping the Confessional Identity of French Protestantism,” Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, March 2003.

Chair, “France,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, October 2002.

Organizer, two panels honoring Bernard Roussel at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, October 2002.

Commentator, “Confessional Coexistence in Early Modern France,” French Historical Studies, Toronto, April 2002.

“Fashioning Protestant Identity in Early Modern France,” University of Iowa French and Italian Forum, February 2002.

"Ideologie reforatrice et comportement quotidienne," University of Haifa, Israel, May 2000.

"The Huguenot Minority in Early Modern France," Humbolt University, Berlin, April 1998.

"Consistoire et itineraires personnels," University of Paris - Sorbonne, March 1998.

"Sociability and Culpability," series of lecture at University of St Andrews, University of Edinburgh and University of Warwick, November 1997.

"Le consistoire et les Eglises Reformees de France," series of lectures at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris), Societe de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Francais (Paris) and Institut de l'Histoire de la Reformation (Geneva), March 1997.

CURRENT AND RECENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

"Translating" theological views into everyday practices during the Reformation of the 16th and 17th centuries.

SERVICE

Department service
Department Chair, University of Iowa, 2003-present
Graduate Studies Committee, University of Iowa, 2002-present

College and University service
Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center Internal Curriculum Advisory Board, 2005-08
Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2005-06
Promotion and Tenure Committee, Classics Department, 2005
Advisory Committee on African American Studies, 2005
NEH Challenge Grant Advisory Committee, 2005
Committee on Endowed Faculty Positions, 2004-07
CLAS Review Committee, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, 2002

Professional service
General Editor, Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies (monograph series)
Editorial Board, Sixteenth Century Journal
President, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (1997)
Various nominating committee and prize committees

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