CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Jeffrey A. Trumbower

Home Address: 17 Lawrence Heights, Jericho, VT 05465

Work Address: St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT 05439

Office Phone: (802) 654-2373

Email: jtrumbower@smcvt.edu

Date of Birth: June 19, 1960

Place of Birth: Orlando, FL

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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