Robert M. Kingdon
Emeritus Professor

eMail: rkingdon@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)263-1851
Office: 5121
Mailbox: 5009 Mosse Humanities

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Bio Sketch:

I was educated at Oberlin College (A.B. 1949) and Columbia University (M.A., 1950;  Ph.D. 1955) and the University of Geneva (1951-1952)  I taught at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (1952-1957), the University of Iowa (1947-1965), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1965-1998).  I am a specialist on European history of the Reformation period, particularly in French-speaking countries.  I have worked on the history of Calvinist ecclesiastical institutions, particularly the Geneva Company of Pastors and the Geneva Consistory, and have been involved with others in editing the hitherto unpublished registers of minutes of their meetings.  I have also worked on the history of political thought as developed by religious leaders of the period, including John Calvin, Theodore Beza, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Cardinal William Allen, editing some of their relevant works.  I have also worked on the history of printing during the Reformation period.

Awards:

• Honorary degrees from the University of Geneva (1986) and Oberlin College (1999)
• Honored by volumes of essays by former students, published by Sixteenth Century Publishers at Truman State University in Missouri, in 1987 (edited by Jerome Friedman) and 2003 (edited by Lee Wandel)

Courses Taught:

• History of the Protestant Reformation (334)
• History of the Catholic Reformation (335)