MARK ALAN GRANQUIST

Division of History and Theology Office: 651-641-3489 Luther Seminary Home: 507-645-2988 2481 Como Avenue e-mail: "[email protected]" St Paul MN 55108

EDUCATION: Ph.D. University of Divinity School, 1992 M.Div. Yale University Divinity School, 1984 B.A. Saint Olaf College, 1979 (History and Religion)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 2007- Associate Professor of Church History Luther Seminary, St Paul MN

2000-2007 Assistant Professor of Religion Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter MN

1992-2000 Assistant Professor of Religion Saint Olaf College, Northfield MN

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: -Affiliated Associate Professor, Johannelund Theological School, (recent) Uppsala, - Editor, Word & World - Editor, Journal of the Lutheran Historical Conference - President, Lutheran Historical Conference - Board, Lutheran Quarterly - Secretary, Swedish American Historical Society - Managing Editor, Dictionary of Luther and Lutheran Theology (Baker Publishing) - Consultant, Vesterheim Museum, Decorah, Iowa - Lecturer at Växjö University, Sweden, Department of Religion

HONORS: Six-time winner of “Award of Commendation” in American Lutheran History, Concordia Historical Institute, St. Louis

Biglerville Prize for Best Book in American Lutheran History, Lutheran Historical Society of the Mid-Atlantic, 2011

“Best of the Christian Press” Awards, Associated Church Press. Honorable Mention, 2011 and 2012

1 BOOKS: The Augustana Story: Shaping Lutheran Identity in North America, Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2008 (with Maria Erling)

Lutherans in America: A New History, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.

Scandinavia Pietists: Spiritual Writings from 19th-Century Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and (Classics of Western Spirituality) Mahwah NJ: Paulist Press, 2015.

Documents From The History of : 1750 to the Present Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017 (with Eric Lund)

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS: "The Role of ‘Common Sense’ in the Hermeneutics of Moses Stuart," Harvard Theological Review, 83(3), 1990, pp. 305-19.

"Smaller Religious Groups in the Swedish-American Community," Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 44(4), October 1993, pp. 217-30.

"A Comparison of Swedish- and Norwegian-American Religious Traditions, 1860-1920" Lutheran Quarterly, 8(3), Autumn 1994, pp. 299-320.

“Swedish-American Lutherans and Mission,” Essays and Reports of the Lutheran Historical Conference, 15, St. Louis: Lutheran Historical Conference, 1992, pp. 243-58.

“A Minority within a Minority: Scandinavian Lutherans in the Southeast,” Essays and Reports of the Lutheran Historical Conference, 16, St. Louis: Lutheran Historical Conference, 1994, pp. 231-44

“Conrad Bergendoff and the LCA Merger of 1962," Swedish- American Historical Quarterly, 46(3), July 1995, pp. 256-271.

"The Religious Vision and Academic Quest at St. Olaf," in Richard T. Hughes and William B. Adrian, eds., Models for Christian Higher Education: Strategies for Success in the Twenty-First Century, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1997, pp. 82-96.

"Lutherans in the United States, 1930-1960 - Searching for the 'Center'" in Douglas Jacobsen and William Vance Trollinger, Jr., eds., Reforming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998, pp. 234-51.

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"Five American Lutheran Histories," Lutheran Quarterly, 12(2), Summer 1998, pp. 199-211.

“J.H.W. Stuckenberg and Lutheranism in America,” in Essays and Reports of the Lutheran Historical Conference, 17, St. Louis: Lutheran Historical Conference, 1996, pp. 167-83.

“Conrad Bergendoff and ,” Essays and Reports of the Lutheran Historical Conference, 18, St. Louis: Lutheran Historical Conference, 1998, pp. 443-62.

“The Augustana Synod and the Episcopal Church,” Lutheran Quarterly, 14(2), Summer, 2000, pp. 173-92.

“Byron Nelson and American Lutheran Attitudes toward Evolution,” Essays and Reports of the Lutheran Historical Conference, 19, St. Louis: Lutheran Historical Conference, 2000, pp. 146-165

"As others saw them: Swedes and American Religion in the Twin Cities," in Philip Anderson, ed., Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota’s Urban Frontier, St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001, pp. 270-85.

“Word Alone and the Future of Lutheran Denominationalism,” and “North American Lutheranism and the New Ethnics,” in Richard Cimino, ed., Lutherans Today: American Lutheran Identity in the Twenty-first Century, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003, pp. 62-80 and 166-86.

“American Lutherans on the Home Front During World War I,” Journal of Lutheran Ethics, 5(2), February 2005.

“Swedish-American Episcopalians and Lutheran-Episcopal Relations in North America, 1850-1935,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 74(1), March 2005, pp. 23-44.

“Conrad Bergendoff (1895-1997),” Lutheran Quarterly 19(2), Summer 2005, pp. 167-84.

“The Transplantation of European to North America: the Swedish Example,” Covenant Quarterly, 63(4), November 2005, pp. 35-48.

“American Hymns and Swedish Immigrants,” Lutheran Quarterly

3 20(4), Winter, 2006, pp. 409-28

“Between Pietism, Revivalism and Modernity: Samuel Simon Schmucker and American Lutheranism in the early Nineteenth Century,” in Daniel Lindmark, ed., Pietism, Revivalism, and Modernity, 1650-1850, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, pp. 256-73.

“Vergilius Ferm and George Stephenson, The Augustana Synod’s Scholarly Outsiders,” Lutheran Quarterly, 22(3), Fall, 2008, pp. 278-98.

“For All What Saints? Preaching All Saints Day,” Word and World, 28(4), Fall, 2008, pp. 413-19.

“American Lutheranism Fifty Years Ago—and Today,” Lutheran Forum, 43(1), Spring, 2009, pp. 26-30.

“Religion and Immigration, Old and New,” Word and World, 29(2), Summer, 2009, pp. 217-26.

“The Augustana Synod and the Missouri Synod,” Lutheran Quarterly, 24(1), Spring 2010, pp. 42-60.

“Exploding the ‘Myth of the Boat,’” Lutheran Forum 44(4), Winter 2010, pp. 15-17.

“The New Immigration and the Old: The Context of African Christian immigration to the United States,” in Frieder Ludwig and Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, eds., Christianity and the Neo- Diaspora: African Immigrant Congregations in the USA and Europe, Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2011, pp. 175-84

“‘The Sociological Factor is not to be underestimated:’ Swedes, Norwegians, and American Lutheran Merger Negotiations, 1920- 1960,” in Philip Anderson and Dag Blanck, eds., Friends and Neighbors? Swedes and Norwegians in the United States, St Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012, pp. 154-69.

“Popular Perceptions of in American Culture,” Trinity Seminary Review, 33, Summer 2012, pp. 7-18.

“Parallel Paths: The Augustana Synod and the Covenant Church, 1920-1945,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 58(2-3), April-July 2012, pp. 174-86.

4 “A Slow Disaster and a Proposal for Reform,” Lutheran Forum, 46(2), Summer 2012, pp. 23-26. “American Lutheran Pastors and their Finances,” Journal of Lutheran Ethics 12(3), May 2012.

“The Urge to Merge,” Lutheran Forum 47(2), Summer 2013, pp. 20-23.

“From the Other Side: Funeral Directors Talk about the Changing Face of Funerals,” Word and World, 34(1), Winter 2014, pp. 31-7.

“Religion and Ethnicity in the United States,” Word and World, 34(2), Spring 2014, pp. 140-48.

“Ways to be Lutheran: New Churches Experiment with polity,” Christian Century, 131(8), April 16, 2014, pp. 12-13.

“The Scripture Controversy in American Lutheranism: Infallibility, Inerrancy, Inspiration,” in Carl E. Braaten, ed., Rightly Handling the Word of Truth: Scripture, , and Creed. Delhi NY, APLB Books, 2015, pp. 71-88.

“Rosenius in America: His Influence on American Religion, Historical and Contemporary,” in Larsolov Eriksson and Torbjörn Laspers, eds., Carl Olof Rosenius: Teolog, författare, själavårdare. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Krykohistoriska Föreningen, II, Ny Följd, 74. Academic: Skellefteå, Sweden, 2017, pp. 111- 126. (reprinted in Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 67(3), July 2016, pp. 174-88.)

“The ELCA by the Numbers,” Lutheran Forum. 50(3), Fall 2016, pp. 17-21.

“Gaiseric, the Vandal, and the Word in the World,” Word & World, 36(4), Fall, 2016, pp. 371-79.

“Lutherans in North America,” in Kathryn A. Kleinhans, ed., Together By Grace: Introducing the Lutherans. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2016, pp. 72-77.

“American Lutherans and the First World War,” in Gordon Heath, ed., American Churches and the First World War. Eugene OR: Pickwick Publications, 2017.

5 REFERENCE MATERIALS: "Lithuanian-Americans," "Estonian-Americans," and "Swedish- Americans" (article length entries) in Rudolph J. Vecoli, ed., Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 2 vol., Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1995, pp. 486-98, 881-94 and 1284-9 “The Lutheran Witness” in P. Mark Fackler and Charles Lippy, eds., Popular Religious Magazines of the United States, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995, pp. 319-23.

Nine biographical entries, in American National Biography, (20 volumes) New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

“Lutheranism,” Oxford Companion to United States History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 464-5.

“Swedenborgianism,” in Jonathan Dewald, ed., Dictionary of Early Modern Europe, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.

“Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church,” in Hans Hillerbrand, ed., Encyclopedia of Protestantism, New York: Routledge, 2004, p. 132.

“Lutherans,” “Baptists,” and “C.F.W. Walther,” in The Encyclopedia of the Midwest, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

“Ethnicity” and “Immigration from the Civil War to World War I,” (article-length entries) in Charles Lippy and Peter Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of American Religion, Washington DC: CQ Press, 2010. Volume 2, pp. 765-75 and 1050-57.

20 entries on American Lutheranism, in Timothy Wengert, et al, eds., Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Tradition. Grand Rapids: Baker Acadmic Press, 2017.

“Lutheranism in America,” in Jonathan Butler, ed., Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

“Martin Luther in America,” in Derek Nelson and Paul Hinlicky, eds., Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

“Lutheran Denominational Divisions in the US and Canada,” in Mark Lamport, ed., Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the . Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017

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“American Lutherans and the Bible,” in Christine Helmer, et al., eds, Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017.

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