*Criterion Winter 02-4.16 - Divinity School - University of Chicago

RICHARD HUTCH, M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1974, Professor in the
Department of Studies in Religion at the University of
Queensland in Australia, has been appointed Director of
Studies in the Faculty of Arts at that institution for a term
of two years, effective July 1, 2001.
DIANE JONTE-PACE, M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1984, Associate Professor
of Religious Studies and Associate Vice Provost at Santa
Clara University in California, has published a new book
entitled Speaking the Unspeakable: Religion, Misogyny, and
the Uncanny Mother in Freud’s Cultural Texts (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2001).
WESLEY A. KORT, Ph.D. 1965, Professor in the Department of
Religion at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina,
has recently published C. S. Lewis: Then and Now (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2001).
JOHN H. MARTIN, Ph.D. 1953, was presented with the Brooklyn
College Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement
Award on September 30, 2001. After serving as a cryptographer
for the U.S. Army Air Corps during and after Word War II,
Mr. Martin began his teaching career as an instructor at the
University of Richmond in Virginia, going on to serve as
Associate Professor of English at Wilmington College in
Ohio. In 1958 he was appointed Professor of Humanities at
Corning Community College in New York, where in 1968
he became director of that institution’s Arthur A. Houghton,
Jr., Library. He also served as library director at the Corning
Museum of Glass from 1973–88, as well as Adjunct Professor
of Japanese and Chinese Civilization in the graduate division
of Elmira College in New York. In addition to serving in
numerous leadership positions on nonprofit boards and
committees, Mr. Martin has served for sixteen years as the
editor of the Journal of Glass Studies. He has also published
three books on the cultural aspects of Japan’s major cities,
and a study on the restoration of the Corning Glass
Museum after the 1972 flood in that city. Currently, Mr.
Martin is an Elderhostel lecturer at the Thomas Watson
Conference Center.
RICHARD E. MILLER, Ph.D. 1995, Professor and Chair of the
Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University in
Bloomington, has accepted, with Eric Meslin, coeditorship
of the series Bioethics and the Humanities, forthcoming from
Indiana University Press. His article “Aquinas and the
Presumption against Killing and War” will appear in the
Journal of Religion in April 2002.
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PAUL PRIBBENOW, M.A. 1979, Ph.D. 1993, has been appointed
President of Rockford College in Illinois.
MARK PHILIP REASONER, Ph.D. (New Testament/Early Christianity)
1990, Associate Professor at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota,
writes to tell us that he and four other Chicago
alumni: Larry Bouchard, M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1984, Associate
Professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; Joel
Kaminsky, M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1993, Assistant Professor of Religion
and Biblical Literature at Smith College in Northampton,
Massachusetts; Peter Paris, Ph.D. 1975, Elmer G. Homrighausen
Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Princeton Theological
Seminary in New Jersey; and Travis Kroeker, Ph.D. 1989,
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University
in Hamilton, Ontario, constituted five out of the
twelve members of the Center of Theological Inquiry in
Princeton, New Jersey, in autumn 2001.
VERNON K. ROBBINS, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1969, has been awarded
the Winship Research Professorship in the Humanities at
Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, for 2001–04. He also
traveled to South Africa to teach for a 1999–2002 Visiting
Professorship at the University of Stellenbosch.
JOHN G. STACKHOUSE, JR., Ph.D. 1987, Sangwoo Youtong
Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College in
Vancouver, British Columbia, has edited No Other Gods
Before Me? Evangelicals Encounter the World’s Religions (Grand
Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2001). This volume
includes a response by Paul J. Griffiths, former professor in the
Divinity School, as well as essays by two other Chicago
alumni, Gerald McDermott and Richard Mouw.
JAMES K. WELLMAN, JR., Ph.D. 1995, is Visiting Lecturer in
the Comparative Religion Program at the University of
Washington in Seattle and former director of the Young
Adult Education Program at Fourth Presbyterian Church
in Chicago. His book The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto:
Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism (Champaign:
University of Illinois Press, 1999), with a forward by Martin
E. Marty, has been selected as the winner of the 2001 Francis
Makemie Award by the Committee for the Presbyteran
Historical Society. This award is given each year to the
author of an outstanding published book in American Presbyterian
or Reformed history.