CRAIG HARLINE January 2017
Address: Department of History Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 801.422.7848 801.422.0275 (fax) [email protected]
Education: Ph.D., History, Rutgers University, 1986 Major Field: Early Modern Europe Minor Field: Medieval Europe Awards: Special Graduate School Fellow, 1981-84 M.A., History, Rutgers University, 1984 B.A., European Studies, Brigham Young University, 1980
Positions: Brigham Young University Professor, 1997-present Associate Professor, 1992-1997 Universiteit Antwerpen Research Scholar and Visiting Professor, spring 2006 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Research Fellow and Visiting Professor, winter 2001, winter 1996 University of Idaho Associate Professor, 1991-1992 Assistant Professor, 1986-1991 Rutgers University Part-time Lecturer, 1985-86 Teaching Assistant, 1984-85
Awards and American Council of Learned Societies Grants: fellowship, calendar year 2007 grant-in-aid, summer 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities public scholar fellowship, calendar year 2016 research fellowship, academic year 2000-01 summer stipend, 1998, 1989 travel-to-collections grant, summer 1990 American Philosophical Society Franklin research grant, summer 2014, summer 2004 summer research grant, 1988 VLAC (The Royal Flemish Academy for Science and the Arts) research fellow, spring term 2011, June 2012 Universiteit Antwerpen Saint Ignatius Center, research scholar, winter term 2006 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven research fellow, winter term 2001, winter term 1996 Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Harold J. Grimm Prize, 2003, best article in the field of Reformation Studies Bainton Book-Prize, Honorable Mention, 2001 (with Eddy Put) Carl S. Meyer Prize, 1990 (with Eddy Put), best paper by a recent Ph.D. Nieman Foundation at Harvard University and the Columbia School of Journalism Mark Lynton History Prize, Finalist, 2012 Brigham Young University college research grant (summers), 2014, 2008, 2005, 2002, 2001, 1998, 1997, 1994, 1992 sabbatical, calendar year 2016, winter 2014, calendar year 2007, academic year 2000-01, winter 1996 Women’s Research Institute, summer research grant, 1994 Kennedy Center for International Studies, research grant (summers), 2013, 2003, 1999, 1995 Center for the Study of Europe, summer 2013 University of Idaho college and state research grants (summers), 1991, 1989, 1987
Scholarly A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation Books: (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017)
Jacobs vlucht: Een familiesaga van de Gouden Eeuw (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2016) (Jacob’s Flight: A Family Saga of the Golden Age)
Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011; paperback 2013). Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize, 2012. A Top Ten Book in Religion, for 2011, in Publishers Weekly. A Choice Academic Title in Religion/Humanities, for 2012.
Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl (New York: Doubleday, 2007; paperback Yale University Press, 2011). Listed among Best Books of the Year, for 2007, in Publishers Weekly. On the Top Ten Spiritual Summer Reading List (2007) of the Detroit Free Press.
Miracles at the Jesus Oak: Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe (New York: Doubleday, 2003; paperback Yale University Press, 2011). A Top Ten Book in Religion, for 2003, in Booklist. Translated into Dutch as De Wonderen van Jezus Eik (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2003).
(with Eddy Put) A Bishop’s Tale (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000; paperback 2002). Honorable Mention, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Bainton book-prize, 2001. Editor’s Choice book in Religion, for 2000, at Amazon.com. In Dutch as Verloren schapen, schurftige herders: de helse dagen van Bisschop Mathias Hovius (Leuven and Nijmegen: Davidsfonds/SUN, 2002). The Burdens of Sister Margaret: Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent (New York: Doubleday, 1994; abridged paperback, Yale University Press, Nota Bene series, 2000). Translated into Korean (2012), into Swedish as Syster Margriets Prövningar (Stockholm: Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 1995), and into Dutch as De Verzoekingen van Zuster Margriet (Antwerp: Hadewych, 1997).
Editor, The Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe: Collected Essays of Herbert H. Rowen (Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer, 1992).
Pamphlets, Printing, and Political Culture in the Early Dutch Republic (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987).
Articles: “What Happened to My Bellbottoms? How Things That Were Never Going to Change Have Sometimes Changed Anyway, and How Studying History Can Help Us Make Sense of it All,” BYU Studies 52/4 (Winter 2013): 49-76.
“Big Sister as Intermediary: How Maria Rolandus Tried to Win Back Her Wayward Brother,” in J. Donawerth, et al., Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict, Concord (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2013): 3-22.
“Return to the Land of Blue Little Books,” introduction to F. Deen, D. Onnekink, M. Reinders, eds., Pamphlets and Politics in the Dutch Republic (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011), 31-36.
“The Scholar at Home: Domestic Crisis and the New Dutch Bible,” in D. Vanysacker, P. Delsaerdt, J.-P. Delville, H. Schwall, eds., The Quintessence of Lives: Intellectual Biographies in the Low Countries (Leuven and Turnhout: Brepols/RHE, 2010), 111-25.
“Religieoorlogen in eigen huis: de uitdaging van religieus gemengde gezinnen na de Reformatie,” Trajecta 16/3 (2007): 217-36.
“Religious Wars at Home: The Challenges of Confessionally Mixed Families,” in P. Wallace, P. Starenko, C. Ocker, eds., Politics of the Reformation, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 2007), vol. I, 425-39.
Editor of, “Recent Trends in the Study of Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Europe,” three articles in Renaissance Quarterly 59/3 (Autumn 2006): 697-731.
“Miracles and This World: The Battle for the Jesus Oak,” Archive for Reformation History 93 (2002): 217-38.
“The Shadow of the World: Reform in the Convent,” in E. Put, M. J. Marinus, H. Storme, eds., Geloven in het verleden. Studies over het godsdienstig leven in de vroegmoderne tijd (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1996): 131-45.
“Actives and Contemplatives: The Female Religious of the Low Countries Before and After Trent,” Catholic Historical Review 81/4 (1995): 541-67.
(with Eddy Put) “Het Sterven van een Aartsbisschop,” in R. de Smedt, ed., Mechliniensia in Honorem Prof. Em. Dr. Constantini Van de Wiel septuagenarii (Mechelen: HKKM, 1995): 119-40.
(with Eddy Put) “Dagboek van een Katholieke Reformatie: Aartsbisschop Mathias Hovius en zijn Manuale,” Trajecta 3/1 (1994): 19-33.
(with Herbert Rowen) “The Birth of the Dutch Nation,” in M. Thorp, A. Slavin, eds., Politics, Religion, and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Monographs, 1994): 67-81.
“Introduction,” The Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe: Collected Essays of Herbert H. Rowen (Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer, 1992), 1-10.
“Official Religion – Popular Religion in Recent Historiography of the Catholic Reformation,” Archive for Reformation History 81 (1990): 239-62.
(with Eddy Put) “A Bishop in the Cloisters: The Visitations of Mathias Hovius (Malines, 1596-1620),” Sixteenth Century Journal 22/4 (1991): 629-52.
“Mars Bruised: Images of War in the Dutch Republic, 1641-1648,” Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden 104/2 (1989): 184- 208.
“Blue Little Books and the Dutch Republic,” in T. Broos, ed., Papers from the Third Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988): 169-77.
Reference: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 1996): “Jacob Boonen,”1:200-01 and “Mathias Hovius,” 2:258-59 (with Eddy Put); “Maarten van Riethoven,” 3:435; “Henri van der Burch,” 4:219; Translator “Wilhelmus Lindanus,” “Antoon Triest,” “Joannes Malderus,” “Laevinus Torrentius.”
Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, t. XXIV (Paris, 1993), “Mathias Hovius” (with Eddy Put), cols. 1297-99.
Other Books: Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014). Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Religion Book of the Year. Best Personal History/Memoir, Mormon History Association.
Translations: Ernest Claes, The Mother and the Three Soldiers, and Village Scenes (Averbode, Belgium: Ernest Claes Genootschap, 2006), from the original Flemish. Reviews: Dozens of reviews authored in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, The Dutch Review of Church History, Church History and Religious Culture, Renaissance Quarterly, The Catholic Historical Review, The Sixteenth Century Journal, The American Historical Review, Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis, Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire, and History: A Review of Books.
Film: Producer, Moscow Classics: Going Somewhere Beautiful (2012), a documentary on the rise and decline of Classics in western education. Now in post-production for local PBS stations.
Interviews: Radio, Podcasts, and Television 2016 - Historisch Café (Amsterdam) Radio Klara, “Pompidou” (Belgium) VPRO, “OVT” (Netherlands) Incognitief (Netherlands) 2014 - WYPR, Baltimore, Midday with Dan Rodricks KERA, Dallas/Ft Worth, Think KTAR, Phoenix, The God Show Unity Radio Online, Holy Rascals Radio Rational Faiths Mormon Podcast Mormon Discussion Podcast Marginalia Review of Books, an LA Review of Books channel 2013 - HuffPost Live, Part of Panel Discussion on Conversion Mormon Stories Podcast, Panel Discussion of my book Conversions 2012 - WCXZ, Knoxville, Tom Amis Show New Books in History Network, New Books in Politics WAMV, Amherst, VA, Morning Show WLTP, Parkersburg, WV, Doug Hess Show Voice America/World Talk Radio, Kathryn Zox Show WLW, Cincinnati, Jim Scott Show WRPN, Green Bay, Morning Show WMKT, Charlevoix, MI, Vic McCarty Show WISR, Pittsburgh, Dave Malarkey Show 2011 - WRVC, Huntington, WV, Jean Dean Show WOCA, Ocala, FL, Larry Whitler Show WPHM, Detroit, Paul Miller Show WELI, New Haven, CT, The Vinnie Penn Project Lifestyle Talk Radio, Frankie Boyer Show 2009 - CBS Television, Sunday Morning With Charles Osgood 2008 - RTE Ireland, The Tubridy Show 2007 - National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Sunday 2007 - PRI and Wisconsin Public Radio, To the Best of Our Knowledge NBC Television, The Today Show on Sunday KVSS Radio, Omaha, The Morning Spirit Show Bloomberg Radio, WBBR New York, Simply Put Sirius Satellite Radio, The Catholic Channel, As You Think WILL Radio, Urbana-Champaign, The Afternoon Magazine KBYU Radio, Provo, Utah, Thinking Aloud KPCC Radio, Los Angeles, Patt Morrison Show KUER Radio, Salt Lake City, Radio West KUED Television, Salt Lake City, Utah Now KSL Radio, Salt Lake City, People of Faith 2004 - De Blinden Bibliotheek (Belgium) 2003 - Radio Katholiek Nederland KRO, Glas en Lood (Netherlands) KRO, De Avonden (Netherlands) Radio 3 Klara (Belgium) 2002 - Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal (Belgium) Radio 3 Klara Alinea (Belgium) KRO (Netherlands) 2000 - KUSU Logan, Utah 1997 - KRO, Glas en Lood (Netherlands) Catholic Worldwide Radio Radio 1 Belgium, Het Vrije Westen Radio 3 Belgium Radio 2 Belgium, Zegge en Schrijven Independent Radio Belgium VTM (Belgian /TV) 1994 - WNYC Radio, New York, New York and Company
Print and Websites 2016 - Brabants Centrum (Netherlands) Brabants Dagblad (Netherlands) Gazet van Antwerpen (Belgium) Katholiek Nieuwsblad (Netherlands) Reformatorisch Dagblad (Netherlands) Historisch Nieuwsblad (Netherlands) 2014 - Religion News Service, Flunking Sainthood 2011 - Publishers Weekly 2007 - Publishers Weekly Salt Lake Tribune Religion News Service Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2003 - Tertio (Belgium) Gazet van Antwerpen (Belgium) Het Belang van Limburg (Belgium) De Standaard (Belgium) De Morgen (Belgium) Trouw (Netherlands) Het Katholieke Nieuwsblad (Netherlands) Haagse Courant (Netherlands) 2002 - Tertio (Belgium) Kerk en Leven (Belgium) Gazet van Antwerpen (Belgium) Knack (Belgium) Het Belang van Limburg (Belgium) 2001 - Brigham Young Magazine 2000 - Deseret News
Invited “Playing to the Crowd: Reflections on the Elements of Biographical Method,” Lectures: keynote speaker, Vlaams-Nederlands Vereniging voor Nieuwe Geschiedenis, Brussels, October 2016 “Luther, Dee, and Thee: What a Youngish Sixteenth-Century Monk Might Possibly Have to Do With You (and with the Jensen Lecture),” De Lamar Jensen Lecture, Brigham Young University, October 2015 “What Seventeenth-Century Religious Conversion Might Possibly Have to do With You,” Utah Valley University, November 2013 “What Happened to My Bellbottoms? How Things That Were Never Going to Change Have Sometimes Changed Anyway, and How Studying History Can Help you Make Sense of it All,” Hickman Lecture, Brigham Young University, March 2013 “Het Rolandus Lied: An Ecclesiastical Dynasty in the Golden Age,” VLAC (Royal Flemish Academy for Science and the Arts), Brussels, May 2011 “Women as Negotiators in Religious Disputes,” plenary speaker, Attending to Early Modern Women Conference, University of Maryland, November 2009 “Microhistory and the Frustrated Novelist,” Microhistory and the Community of the Parish, Warwick, England, May 2009; other versions at Villanova University, March 2012, University of Arizona, October 2012, Claremont Graduate School, October 2014, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, May 2009 Panelist, “The Reformation Classroom: Defining Protestantism,” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, St. Louis, October 2008 “Mixing Religions in the Family: A Reformation Tragedy,” O’Clerigh Lecture, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, May 2008 “Wat wonder, wat nieuws! Park en het ontstaan van de Jezus Eik,” 900 Years of Park, Park Abbey, Leuven, Belgium, September 2007 “Religieoorlogen bij ons thuis: de uitdaging van religieus gemengde families na de Reformatie,” Research Scholar Lecture, Universiteit Antwerpen, February 2007 “Religious Wars at Home: Problems of Sources and Presentation,” Yale University, January 2007, Universiteit Antwerpen, June 2006, and Universiteit Amsterdam, February 2007 “High Adventure in the Archives,” University of Idaho, May 2005 (with Eddy Put) “Writing Together Apart: Collaboration in Historical Research and Writing,” DeSantis Lecture, University of Notre Dame, April 2005 “Writing Sister Margaret,” Honors Book of the Semester Lecture, Seton Hall University, October 2004 “The Trouble With Doctor Helmont,” University of Utah, April 2002 “The Politics of the Wondrous,” University of Utah, January 2002 “A Family’s War of Religion,” University of London, February 2001 “The Miracle of the Breast-Milk and the Politics of the Wondrous,” Wake Forest University, April 1997 “The People and the Reformation,” University of Oregon, November 1990 “Trends and Problems in the Study of the Catholic Reformation,” Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, June 1988
Professional: Memberships and Service in Learned Societies Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Past President, 2007-08, President, 2006-07 Vice-President, 2004-06 Council, 1998-2000 Nominating Committee, 2011-13 Renaissance Society of America Executive Board, 2001-05 Society for Reformation Research American Society of Church History American Academy of Religion Referee or Reader Journal of Global History Journal of the History of Ideas Archive for Reformation History Catholic Historical Review Renaissance Quarterly Sixteenth Century Journal Journal of Early Modern History American Philosophical Society Oxford University Press Princeton University Press Yale University Press Rowman & Littlefield McGill-Queen’s University Press Davidsfonds (Belgium) American Philosophical Society (Franklin Research Grants), 2011, 2008 Commenter on dozens of conference papers and panels Consultant Harper & Row (World Civilization textbook) Dushkin Publishing (World Civilization reader) Annual Editions (World Civilization reader)
Courses Western Civilization (in 2 parts) Taught: World Civilization (in 2 parts) Introduction to the History of Christianity The Historian’s Craft Renaissance Europe Reformation Europe History on Film Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe Seminars: Miracles and European Christianity; Living the Reformation; Religious Mixing in the Reformation and Beyond; Religious Conversion; Tolerance and Intolerance; Religious and Cultural Change; Christian Missions Supervisor or Committee for numerous theses, senior papers
University Brigham Young University Service: University, Library Committee, 1995-98 University, Speaker at the Workshop for New Associate Professors, January 2006 University, Center for the Study of Europe, Steering Committee, 2003-07 University Faculty Center, Teaching and Research Focus Group, July 1997 College and Department, Awards Committee, 2014-15 College, National Advisory Committee, Fall 2015 College, Rank and Status Committee, 2005-09 College, Committee for the Review of the course “American Heritage,” Fall 2002 College, Research Committee, 2001-04 Department, Faculty Development Coordinator, 2013-14 Department, Newsletter Advisor, 2012-13 Department, Ad hoc Committee on Reinstituting the Graduate Program, Chair, 2011 Department, Student Research Paper Awards Committee, Chair, 2009-11 Department, Editor, Department Newsletter, 2012-13 Department, “Historian’s Craft” and “Senior Paper” committee, 1997-2000 Department, Rank and Status Committee, 2017- , 2009-12, 2003-05 (Chair 2003-04), 1997-99, 1994-95 Department, Search Committees, 2011, 1999 (Chair), 1997 (Chair), 1994, 1993 Department, Swensen and Jensen Lecture Committee, 2008-13; 1997 Department, Social Committee, 1996-97, 1992-94 Department, Self-Study Committees on “Students” (2002), “Curriculum,” (1994), “Undergraduate Major” (1995) Study Abroad, Director, Paris, Winter 2003 Study Abroad, Associate Director, London, Winter, Spring 1994 Judge, at History Day for secondary schools, 1999, 1997, 1995, 1993 Lecture, BYU Women’s Research Institute, “Tales from the Crypt: Writing The Burdens of Sister Margaret,” September 1994; also to the History Research Seminar, November 1994; and to Blue Key, January 1995 Lecture, Phi Alpha Theta Banquet, “High Adventure in the Archives,” November 2002 Student Mentor, 1994-97, for ten new students a year, and a student facing Academic suspension who eventually graduated Faculty Mentor, 1996-present, for six different junior faculty members Referee, Journal of International and Area Studies, 1997, 1992 Letters of reference for hundreds of students and colleagues Guest lecturer in numerous courses
University of Idaho University, Committee for General Education, 1990-91 College, Tenure and Promotion Committee, 1991-92 College, Dean’s Council on Research, Scholarship, and Creativity, 1988-92 College, Religious Studies Committee, 1987-92 Department, Ad Hoc Committee, Review of Tenure and Promotion Procedures and Standards, 1992 Department, drafted requirements for History Majors, and requirements for the Senior Seminar, 1991 Department, Committee on the Quadrennial Review of the Chair, 1989 Outside Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, English Department, 1991 Outside Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, 1991 Lecture, University of Idaho Humanities Day, “The Scandalous Tale of the Quiltmaker’s Wife, and Other Episodes in the Value of History,” 1988
References: Jodi Bilinkoff, Department of History, University of NC-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402; (336) 334-4646; [email protected] Thomas Brady, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; (510) 642-4426; [email protected] Carlos Eire, Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520; (203) 432-1357; [email protected] Brad Gregory, Department of History, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556; (574) 631-7266; [email protected] Susan Karant-Nunn, Department of History, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; (520) 621-1284; [email protected] Diarmaid MacCulloch, Faculty of Theology, 41 Saint Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW, England; (44) 1865.270794; [email protected] Edward Muir, Department of History, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; (847) 491-3653; [email protected] John O’Malley, Department of Theology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057; (202) 687-4882; [email protected]