MARK ALAN GRANQUIST. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Associate Professor of Church History Luther Seminary, St Paul MN

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1 MARK ALAN GRANQUIST Division of History and Theology Office: Luther Seminary Home: Como Avenue St Paul MN EDUCATION: Ph.D. University of Chicago Divinity School, 1992 Cert. Studies Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, 1987 M.Div. Yale University Divinity School, 1984 B.A. Saint Olaf College, 1979 (History and Religion) TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Associate Professor of Church History Luther Seminary, St Paul MN Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter MN Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion Saint Olaf College, Northfield MN PARISH EXPERIENCE: Interim Pastor (PT), St. Mark Lutheran Church, Randolph MN (Solo, small-town congregation) 1994 Interim Associate Pastor (PT), United Lutheran Church, Red Wing MN (Two pastor staff) Pastor of Youth and Education, Bethel Lutheran Church, Rochester, MN (Multiple pastor staff) Pastoral Assistant, All Saints Lutheran Church, Minnetonka MN (Multiple staff ministry) Intern, Sts. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church, Riverside IL (Slovak bilingual congregation) Student pastor, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Thomaston, CT (Small two-point parish) CHURCH Ordained in the ELCA, August 1988 AFFILIATION: Rostered ELCA Clergy, Southeastern Minnesota Synod 1

2 CHURCH ACTIVITIES: Preach or present Adult Education programs times a year in local congregations. Also presentations to Pastoral Conferences, Synod meetings, and other church gatherings. NATIONAL EDUCATION Active in national groups related to Church-related Higher ACTIVITIES: Education, including - Association of Lutheran College Faculty - Vocation of a Lutheran College conferences - Association of Teaching Theologians of the ELCA - Rhodes Consultation on Church-related Higher Education - Pepperdine project, Models for Christian Higher Education - Notre Dame conference on Church-related Higher Education CAMPUS ACTIVITIES: (At Luther Seminary) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: (recent) HONORS: - MA Point Person, History of Christianity - Candidacy Committee member, Southeast Minnesota Synod - Chair, Search Committee, Associate Dean of First Theological Degrees - First Week Faculty Advisor, August Vice President, Lutheran Historical Conference - Director of Circulation and Development, Lutheran Quarterly - Series editor, 20 th Century Lutheran Leaders, Lutheran Quarterly - Secretary, Swedish American Historical Society - Editor, Journal of the Lutheran Historical Conference - Series Editor, Faithful and Reforming: Lutherans in North America after 500 Years, Metro Lutheran newspaper - Consultant, Vesterheim Museum, Decorah, Iowa - Lecturer at Växjö University, Sweden, Department of Religion Four-time winner of Award of Commendation in American Lutheran History given by the Concordia Historical Institute BOOKS: The Augustana Story: Shaping Lutheran Identity in North America, Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2008 (coauthored with Maria Erling) Editor and contributor to a new, third edition of The Lutherans in North America, Minneapolis: Fortress Press (forthcoming 2011) Scandinavia Pietism (Classics of Western Spirituality) Mahwah NJ: Paulist Press (under contract, forthcoming

3 ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS: "The Role of Common Sense in the Hermeneutics of Moses Stuart," Harvard Theological Review, 83(3), 1990, pp "Smaller Religious Groups in the Swedish-American Community," Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 44(4), October 1993, pp "A Comparison of Swedish- and Norwegian-American Religious Traditions, " Lutheran Quarterly, 8(3), Autumn 1994, pp Swedish-American Lutherans and Mission, Essays and Reports of the Lutheran Historical Conference, 15, St. Louis: Lutheran Historical Conference, 1992, pp 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 Conrad Bergendoff and the LCA Merger of 1962," Swedish- American Historical Quarterly, 46(3), July 1995, pp "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 "Lutherans in the United States, 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 "Five American Lutheran Histories," Lutheran Quarterly, 12(2), Summer 1998, pp 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 Conrad Bergendoff and Eastern Lutheranism, Essays and Reports of the Lutheran Historical Conference, 18, St. Louis: Lutheran Historical Conference, 1998, pp

4 ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS: The Augustana Synod and the Episcopal Church, Lutheran Quarterly, 14(2), Summer, 2000, pp Byron Nelson and American Lutheran Attitudes toward Evolution, Essays and Reports of the Lutheran Historical Conference, 19, St. Louis: Lutheran Historical Conference, 2000, pp "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 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 and American Lutherans on the Home Front During World War I, Journal of Lutheran Ethics, 5(2), February Swedish-American Episcopalians and Lutheran-Episcopal Relations in North America, , Anglican and Episcopal History, 74(1), March 2005, pp Conrad Bergendoff ( ), Lutheran Quarterly 19(2), Summer 2005, pp The Transplantation of European Pietism to North America: the Swedish Example, Covenant Quarterly, 63(4), November 2005, pp American Hymns and Swedish Immigrants, Lutheran Quarterly 20(4), Winter, 2006, pp Between Pietism, Revivalism and Modernity: Samuel Simon Schmucker and American Lutheranism in the early Nineteenth Century, in Daniel Lindmark, ed., Pietism, Revivalism, and Modernity, , Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, pp Vergilius Ferm and George Stephenson, The Augustana Synod s Scholarly Outsiders, Lutheran Quarterly, 22(3), Fall, 2008, pp

5 ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS: For All What Saints? Preaching All Saints Day, Word and World, 28(4), Fall, 2008, pp American Lutheranism Fifty Years Ago and Today, Lutheran Forum, 43(1), Spring, 2009, pp Religion and Immigration, Old and New, Word and World, 29(2), Summer, 2009, pp The Augustana Synod and the Missouri Synod, Lutheran Quarterly, 24(1), Spring 2010, pp Exploding the Myth of the Boat, Lutheran Forum 44(4), Winter 2010, pp 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 WORKS AWAITING PUBLICATION: The Sociological Factor is not to be underestimated: Swedes, Norwegians, and American Lutheran Merger Negotiations, , in Philip Anderson and Dag Blanck, eds., Friends and Neighbors? Swedes and Norwegians in the United States, St Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press (forthcoming) Popular Perceptions of Martin Luther in American Culture to be published in a volume of papers edited by Frieder Ludwig The Pietists in English: Translations of a Tradition, under consideration by Lutheran Quarterly Parallel Paths: The Augustana Synod and the Covenant Church, , to be published in a volume of conference papers, edited by Philip Anderson and Mark Granquist 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 , and

6 REFERENCE MATERIALS: The Lutheran Witness in P. Mark Fackler and Charles Lippy, eds., Popular Religious Magazines of the United States, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995, pp Nine biographical entries, in American National Biography, (20 volumes) New York: Oxford University Press, Lutheranism, Oxford Companion to United States History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp Swedenborgianism, in Jonathan Dewald, ed., Dictionary of Early Modern Europe, New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Hans Hillerbrand, ed., Encyclopedia of Protestantism, New York: Routledge, 2004, p Lutherans, Baptists, and C.F.W. Walther, in The Encyclopedia of the Midwest, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 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, Volume 2, pp and MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS: Survey Sez!: Contemporary Religious Life in the United States, (3 part series), Working Preacher website, posted 8/1/08, 8/15/08, and 9/1/08, Five Key Terms to Understand the American Religious Context, (3 part series), Working Preacher website, forthcoming Monthly Contributions to the series, Faithful and Reforming: North American Lutheranism after 500 Years, Metro Lutheran newspaper. - Foreign mission work became final resting place 12/09 - Father Adam Keffer and early Canadian Lutheranism 1/10 - A legacy too long ignored 2/10 - Facing Wars and the Depression 5/10 - Slovak Lutherans: A tough-minded people 10/10 - Praising God in English: the language transition, 11/10 6

7 COURSES TAUGHT AT LUTHER SEMINARY: HC 1310 Christian History, New Testament to the Present HC Early and Medieval Church History HC 1320 Reform of the Church HC 1320 Reform of the Church (online) HC 3310 The Modern Church in Europe and America HC 4345 New Religious Movements in North America (.5) HC 4350 Christianity and the New America Immigrants (.5) HC 4350 Christianity and the New American Immigrants(online) HC 6313 The Bible and Social Conflict (.5) HC 6327 History of Lutherans in North America (.5) HC 6327 History of Lutherans in North America (online) IC 2620 Lutheran Confessional Writings IC 2620 Lutheran Confessional Writings (online) KAIROS AND LAY COURSES: (Mid-Winter Convo) Workshop January 14-16, 2009 (Lay School) Cults, Sects, and New Religious Movements January 26-February 23, 2009 (Lay School) Ten Myths about Religion in America September 14-October 14, 2009 (Kairos) What s Up with American Religion June 14-16, 2010 (School for Lay Ministry) - Cults, Sects, and New Religious Movements June 28-30, 2010 (Lay School) The New (and Old) Religions Around Us February 7-March 7,