Biography
Karin Maag is the Director of the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies (in Hekman Library), one of the world's foremost collections of works on or by John Calvin. She has directed the Center since 1997.
Outside of work, Professor Maag enjoys bike riding, baking, reading historical fiction, and choral singing.
Education
- B.A., Western Society and Culture/Religion, Concordia University, Montreal
- M.Phil., Renaissance and Reformation History, University of Saint Andrews, Scotland
- Ph.D., Reformation History, University of Saint Andrews, Scotland
Academic Interests
- Early modern education
- Training of ministers in the sixteenth century
- Relations between civil and ecclesiastical authorities in early modern cities
Recent activities
Karin Maag is currently serving as adjunct faculty at Calvin Theological Seminary, teaching classes in church history and research methods, and serving as co-director of the ThM program. She teaches regularly for the Calvin Academy for Lifelong Learning and for the senior enrichment program at Aquinas College. She is also the editor and book review editor of the Calvin Theological Journal.
Her recent publications include the co-edited volume of contributions from the International Calvin Congress in Philadelphia (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2020) and a chapter on education and the Genevan Academy in Ward Holder, ed. Calvin in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her most recent book, Worshiping with the Reformers, was published by IVP Academic in February 2021.
She currently serves as president of the International Calvin Congress, and successfully hosted the 13th quadrennial conference of the ICC in Grand Rapids in July 2023. She will be the local host and organizer for the Calvin Studies Society biennial conference in April 2024. She is currently working on translating the Genevan scholar Max Engammare's book on preaching in the Swiss Reformation from French into English.
Read Karin Maag's posts on Historical Horizons, the history department blog.
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