Vincent M. Evener

Department

Languages Cultures and Religions
Role: Faculty
Campus: Springfield

Postal mail

Missouri State University
Languages Cultures and Religions
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65897

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Education

  • Ph.D. in History of Christianity, June 2014, University of Chicago Divinity School
  • M.A. in History of Christianity, June 2007, University of Chicago Divinity School
  • B.A. in History, 2001, Kenyon College

Teaching

  • Religion 100: Introduction to Religion
  • Religion 340: Christianity
  • Religion 750: Reform and Revolution in Religions of Europe and the Middle East

Research and professional interests

  • The Protestant, Catholic, and Radical reformations of the sixteenth century
  • Spirituality and mysticism, and their relationship to social conformity and dissent
  • Later-medieval mysticism and sixteenth-century transformations of mysticism
  • The history of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism
  • Passion meditation and devotion
  • Asceticism and anti-ascetism; monasticism and rejections of monasticism

Awards and honors

  • MSU Reynolds College New Faculty Research Award, Summer 2024
  • Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Faculty Research Grant, June-September 2022, for study at Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
  • Fulbright/Institute for International Education Dissertation Grant, Sept. 2012-July 2013, for research primarily at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek—Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden
  • Rolf und Ursula Schneider Stiftung Fellowship for Doctoral Research, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, June 2012-Sept. 2012
  • Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion Dissertation Fellowship, Oct. 2011-June 2012

Media Appearances

New Books Network, November 8, 2021, a discussion of Enemies of the Cross: Suffering, Truth, and Mysticism in the Early Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2021). https://newbooksnetwork.com/enemies-of-the-cross

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