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Bruce Lincoln
Education, Experience and Honors
Education
- Ph.D. with distinction (History of Religions), University
of Chicago, 1976
Dissertation: Priests, Warriors, and Cattle: A Comparative
Study of East African and Indo-Iranian Religious Systems.
Mircea Eliade, advisor; J.A.B. van Buitenen, Carsten Colpe, and
Charles Long, readers
- B.A. with high honors (Religion), Haverford College, Haverford Pa.
1970
Professional Experience
- 2000- : Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions,
University of Chicago. Full Member, Center for Middle Eastern Studies,
Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and Committee on the
History of Culture; Associate Member, Depts. of Anthropology and Classics.
- 1993-99: Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago.
Joint appointments as above.
- 1976-94: Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Program, University
of Minnesota. Professor (1986-94), Associate Professor (1979-86),
Assistant Professor (1976-79). Affiliated at various times with programs
in Humanities, South Asian Studies, Religious Studies, and the MacArthur
Interdisciplinary Program in Peace & International Cooperation.
Chair, Religious Studies Program (1981-84).
Visiting Appointments
- May 2003: Visiting Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages and Religions,
Collège de France
- Fall 1998: Visiting Professor of History of Religions, University
of Købnhavn (Denmark)
- May 1991: Visiting Professor of Cultural History, Novosibirsk State
Pedagogical Institute (USSR)
- Spring 1985: Visiting Professor of History of Religions, Uppsala University
(Sweden)
- Fall-Winter 1984-85: Visiting Professor of Anthropology and Folklore,
Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy)
Editorial Positions
- Co-editor, History of Religions (1993- )
- Co-editor, Traditions, monograph series on the ancient
world from University of Illinois Press
- Editorial board, Critique (1993-95), Journal of
the American Academy of Religion (1994-), Journal of
Millennial Studies (1996- ), Religions of the Ancient
World: A Guide (Harvard University Press)
- Editorial board, Storia delle religioni: Studi e Testi,
monograph series published by Essedue Edizioni (Verona)
- Occasional manuscript review for American Academy of Religion,
American Ethnologist, American Journal of Sociology,
E.J. Brill, University of Chicago Press, Classical Philology,
Cultural Anthropology, Current Anthropology,
Harvard University Press, Indiana University Press, Journal
of the American Oriental Society, Journal of Religion,
University of Massachusetts Press, University of Minnesota Press,
New York University Press, Oral Traditions, Oxford University
Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, Princeton University
Press, and Routledge
Awards and Honors
- Award of Merit, Associated Church Press for “Bush’s God Talk:
Analyzing the President’s Theology,” Christian Century
(5 October 2004): 22-29
- Gordon J. Laing Prize for that book published during the previous
three years which brought most distinction to the University of
Chicago Press and faculty, for Theorizing Myth, 2003
- University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities, Doctor Philosophiae
honoris causa, 2001
- American Academy of Religions Award for Best Book, Analytical-Descriptive
Studies, 2000
- Scholar of the College, University of Minnesota College of Liberal
Arts, 1990-1993
- Bush Sabbatical Fellowship, 1991-1992
- National Endowment for Humanities Summer Research Grant, 1986.
- National Endowment for Humanities, Publication Subvention for
Myth, Cosmos, and Society, 1985
- Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Research Grant, 1982-83.
- American Council of Learned Societies Research Grant, 1982-83 (declined)
- American Council of Learned Societies Award for Best First Book
in History of Religions, 1981.
- Rockefeller Foundation Research Conference Grant, 1981.
- American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant, 1979.
- Roundy Scholar, University of Chicago, 1975-76.
- Phi Beta Kappa, Haverford College, 1970.
Dissertations Supervised
- Heidar Azodanloo (University of Teheran), “Discourses of Mobilization
in Post-Revolutionary Iran,” 1992.
- Mohammed N’daou Saidou (Chicago State University), “History, Memories
and Social Differentiation in Sangalan (1850-1958),” 1993.
- John Collins (St. Lawrence College), “Children of the Stones: The
Intifada, Popular Memory, and the 'Generation' of Palestinian Nationalism,”
2000.
- Kelly Hayes (Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis),
“Black Magic at the Margins: Macumba in Rio de Janeiro. An Ethnographic
Analysis of a Religious Life,” 2004.
- Amy Lavine, “The Politics of Nostalgia: Social Memory and National
Identity among Diaspora Tibetans in New York City,” 2001
- Karen Anderson (Wesleyan University), “Technologies of Pain:
The Body in Hell in the Sanskrit Pura–n≥as,” 2001.
- Greg Johnson (Franklin & Marshall College), “The Terms of Return:
Religious Discourse and the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act,” 2003.
- Krista Ovist, “The Integration of Mercury and Lugus: Myth and History
in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Gaul,” 2004.
- Kevin Wanner (Western Michigan University), “The Distinguished
Norseman: Snorri Sturluson, the Edda, and the Conversion
of Capital in Medieval Scandinavia,” 2003.
Languages
- Reading and speaking competence in: French, Italian, and Tokpisin
(Neo-Melanesian).
- Reading competence in: Anglo-Saxon, Avestan, German, Gothic, Greek,
Latin, Old Norse, Old Persian, Pahlavi, Sanskrit, and Spanish.
- Some rudimentary knowledge of: Danish, Dutch, Hittite, Norwegian,
Old Church Slavonic, Old Irish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, and
Welsh.
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