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Mark Alan Granquist 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 Chicago 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, Sweden - 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 Finland (Classics of Western Spirituality) Mahwah NJ: Paulist Press, 2015. Documents From The History of Lutheranism: 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. 2 "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 Eastern Lutheranism,” 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 Pietism 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 Martin Luther 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, Canon, 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. Artos 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
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