Curriculum Vitae

ROGERS B. MILES

Department of Religion
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA 99362
509-527-5360
FAX 509-527-5039
E-Mail: miles@whitman.edu

EDUCATION	Ph.D. Religion, Princeton University, 1987 Concentration: History of Christianity Dissertation: "The Clerical Virtuosi of the Royal Society: 1663-1687" Thesis Adviser: Horton M. Davies Readers: John F. Wilson, Jeffrey Stout, and Wendell S. Dietrich M.A. Religion, Princeton University, 1976 General Examinations: English and American Puritanism, 1620-1750; Early Christianity, 130-461; Restoration and Hanoverian England, 1660-1780 (History); "Methodism and Revolution: Elie Halevy and his Critics" B.A. History and Religion, Bowdoin College, magna cum laude, 1973 University of Durham, England, 1971-72: read early Church history under Gerald Bonner, English religious thought under Eamon Duffy, and Indian civilization
PUBLICATIONS	Science, Religion and Belief: The Clerical Virtuosi of the Royal Society, 1663-1687. American University Studies, Series VII, Theology and Religion, Vol. 106. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., December 1992
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND COURSES TAUGHT	Assistant Professor of Religion (nontenured track), Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, 1990-Present Introduction to Religion Religion in America From Columbus to the Civil War Religion in America From the Civil War to the Present American Religious Thought World Religions Modern Theological Thought I: From the Reformation to the Nineteenth Century General Studies: Great Works (Freshmen Core) General Studies: Antiquity and Modernity (Freshmen Core) General Studies: Senior Colloquium Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities and Religion, Reed College, Portland OR, 1988-1990 Humanities: Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages (Freshmen Core) Special Topics in Philosophical Theology: Faith and the Ethics of Belief (team-taught) Departmental Seminar: Myth (team-taught) Religion and Science in Early Modern Europe Lecturer in Religion, Hood College, Frederick, MD, 1982-83 The New Testament History of Christian Thought: Early Church Fathers to Calvin Lecturer in Religion, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Spring 1982 History of Christian Thought: From the Reformation to the Present Teaching Assistant in Religion, Princeton University, Princton, NJ, Spring 1975 Approaches to the Study of Religion (Benjamin Ray)
TEACHING INTERESTS	Religion in America and the Pacific Northwest Western Religious Thought (Early Church, Reformation, English, and American) New Testament and Patristics World Religions Science and Religion Humanities and Interdisciplinary Cores
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY	"Believing In or Believing That?: How English Latitudinarians Defined the Nature of Faith," a public lecture delivered at Reed College, 15 February 1996 "The Concept of Faith in an Age of Reason," a faculty forum presentation at Whitman College, 1 November 1995 Folger Seminar on Jewish-Christian Relations in the Seventeenth Century, Directed by Richard H. Popkin, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, Spring 1988 Folger Seminar on Space, Time, and Materialism in Eighteenth-Century Thought, Directed by John W. Yolton, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, Fall, 1981 Editor, Literary Text Project, Inc., Washington, DC, 1981-87 Chair, Local Arrangements, Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies, Washington, DC, October 28-29, 1983
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS	American Academy of Religion American Historical Association North American Conference on British Studies American Society of Church History