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No matter where you look in modern culture, Calvin researchers, writers, and performers are there. Our faculty are embedded in professional networks of all sorts. They seek justice and celebrate peace. They work to diagnose and solve problems. And they prepare students for a world in need of what Christian scholars have to offer.

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100+

student researchers hired in the sciences and the humanities each summer
11

centers and institutes engaging global concerns in Christian scholarship
$9.4 million

in research-related external grants and contracts received by Calvin since July 1, 2015

125+

publications resulting from student/faculty research, annually

Provost Research Initiatives

Citizenship

Citizenship The Faith & Citizenship research initiative is about the formation of citizens. Through the research we develop, we ask the question, "What is a good citizen?" and try to provide meaningful answers in many different contexts.

Health

Health While the United States leads the world in spending on healthcare, actual health outcomes in this country tends to lag behind others. One of the most important strategies in addressing this problem is promoting public health.

Sustainability

Sustainability At Calvin, we want renewing God’s good earth to be a way of life, so we make sustainability a priority—as an educational goal and an institutional value.

Centers & Institutes

Recent publications

Christianity Remade: The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches by Paul Joshua, Joel Carpenter, ed.

Spiritual Formation and Mystical Symbolism: A Selection of Works of Hugh and Richard of St Victor, and of Thomas Gallus by Frans van Liere, Grover A. Zinn and Dale M. Coulter, eds.

A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers by Schuurman, Vanderleest, Brue

Refugia Faith: Seeking Hidden Shelters, Ordinary Wonders, and the Healing of the Earth by Debra Rienstra

The Scots Afrikaners: Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures in Southern and Central Africa by Retief Müller

The Nicene Option: An Incarnational Phenomenology by James K. A. Smith

The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction by

Andreae de Sancto Victore, opera IV: Expositio Super Ysaiam by Frans van Liere, ed.

Life at Saint Victor: The Liber Ordinis, the Life of William of Æbelholt, and a selection of works of Hugh, Richard, and Odo of Saint Victor, and other authors by Frans van Liere, Juliet Mousseau

Portrait of an English Migration: North Yorkshire People in North America by William E. Van Vugt

Worshiping with the Reformers by Karin Maag

Common Sense Metaphysics:: Essays in Honor of Lynne Rudder Baker

Christianity Remade: The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches by Paul Joshua, Joel Carpenter, ed.

Spiritual Formation and Mystical Symbolism: A Selection of Works of Hugh and Richard of St Victor, and of Thomas Gallus by Frans van Liere, Grover A. Zinn and Dale M. Coulter, eds.

A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers by Schuurman, Vanderleest, Brue

Refugia Faith: Seeking Hidden Shelters, Ordinary Wonders, and the Healing of the Earth by Debra Rienstra

The Scots Afrikaners: Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures in Southern and Central Africa by Retief Müller

The Nicene Option: An Incarnational Phenomenology by James K. A. Smith

The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction by

Andreae de Sancto Victore, opera IV: Expositio Super Ysaiam by Frans van Liere, ed.

Life at Saint Victor: The Liber Ordinis, the Life of William of Æbelholt, and a selection of works of Hugh, Richard, and Odo of Saint Victor, and other authors by Frans van Liere, Juliet Mousseau

Portrait of an English Migration: North Yorkshire People in North America by William E. Van Vugt

Worshiping with the Reformers by Karin Maag

Common Sense Metaphysics:: Essays in Honor of Lynne Rudder Baker

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