CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Jeffrey A. Trumbower
Home Address: 17
Work Address: St. Michael's College,
Office Phone: (802) 654-2373
Email: jtrumbower@smcvt.edu
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Date Compiled: April 25, 2005
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School, August, 1989
Doctoral Thesis: "Born From Above: The Anthropology of the Gospel of John" Adviser: Hans Dieter Betz; Readers: Robert M. Grant and Arthur J. Droge
M.A., University of Chicago Divinity School, December, 1984
B.A., summa cum laude, Vanderbilt University, May, 1982
Double Major: Political Science and Spanish
HONORS AND GRANTS
Gerald E. Dupont Award from the Student Association, Saint Michael's College, May, 2004
Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award, Saint Michael's College, September, 2002
Senior Fellowship, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 1997-98
St. Michael's College Fellowship for Professional Growth, Summer, 1994
NEH Summer Seminar, "Adam and Eve in the Jewish and Christian Traditions," led by Gary A. Anderson and Michael Stone, University of Virginia, Summer, 1993
St. Michael's College Fellowship for Professional Growth, Summer, 1991
Dissertation approved "with distinction," 1989
Junior Fellowship, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago, 1988-89
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Grant for Study in Germany, 1988
Ph.D. Qualifying Exams passed "with distinction," 1987
University of Chicago Divinity School Fellowship, 1987-88
Milo P. Jewett Prizes for Biblical Studies, 1985 and 1987
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha of Tennessee, 1982
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Society of Biblical Literature, North American Patristics Society, American Association of University Professors
LANGUAGES
Fluency: English, Spanish, German. Reading: Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, French, Latin
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT, September, 1989-present
Assistant Professor: 1989-1996
Associate Professor with tenure: 1996-2002
Full Professor: 2002-present
Dean of the College: 2005-present
Courses Taught:
RS 120 Christianity, Past and Present
RS 130 Varieties of Christianity (a team-taught introductory course)
RS 210 Old Testament
RS 211 New Testament
RS 213 Johannine Christianity
RS 214 St. Paul
RS 216 Early Christianity (through Augustine)
RS 310 Religion: Theory and Method
RS 321 Judaism in the Greco-Roman World (cross- listed in History and Classics)
RS 410 Senior Seminar in Religious Studies
FS 101 First-Year Seminar: Engaging Diversity
HO 310 Religion and Politics (Honors Seminar)
AR 381 Independent Study: Early Christian and Byzantine Art
GTh 517 Pauline Letters and Theology (Graduate Course, M.A. Theology Program)
GTh xxx Independent Study: The Prophets
Visiting Professor, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico, August-December, 2000. Courses taught (in Spanish): Literatura Biblica and El Ser Humano y sus Religiones
Instructor, Loyola University of Chicago, January-May, 1989 Course Taught: Introduction to the New Testament
Instructor, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1988 Courses Taught: Intensive Beginning Greek; Advanced Greek Readings
M.A. Course Assistant, University of Chicago, 1988; Course Taught: Sacred Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, Islam
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Dean of the College, Saint Michael's College, 2005 - present
Chair of the Religious Studies Department, 2001-2005
Phi Beta Kappa, Gamma of Vermont (Saint Michael’s College), elected chapter President, 2003-04
Faculty Council (Tenure and Promotion Committee), St. Michael's College, 2002-2004
American Association of University Professors, 2000-present. Elected President of the local St. Michael's AAUP Chapter, 2000-2002.
Trustee, Board of Trustees, First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, VT, 2001-2003
Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee, St. Michael's College, 1995-1997; Elected Chair, 1996-97
Undergraduate Honors Committee, St. Michael's College, 1990-1994; Elected Chair, 1991-92.
Rabbi Max Wall Endowment Fund Committee for Jewish Studies, St. Michael's College, 1991-present.
Committee on Academic Technology, St. Michael's College, 1993-94
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