Society for Reformation Research (SRR)

News Dear Colleagues,   Nominations are now open for the 2026 Nischan Award. This award was established to honor the service and legacy of Dr. Bodo Nischan (Professor of History, East Carolina...

The due date this year is March 1, 2026, with the committee’s decision announced in May 2026.

Full information can be founds at: www.reformationresearch.org/news.html

The grant is available to early career scholars with preference given to research concentrating on Italy or Italians, on religious life and religious change, on the experiences of women, or on Italian culture in relation to other parts of Europe and the world.

📣Call for Applications📣
Applications are open for the Anne Jacobson Schutte Early Career Research Grant. This grant is designed to support advanced graduate students or early career scholars who need to go to Europe to do research.

Awards To honor a long-time member and past president of the Society for Reformation Research, the society offers the Miriam Usher Chrisman Travel Fellowship of $2000 every other year in odd-numbered years.....

Nominators should submit nominees to the Recording Officer, Paul Strauss, via email (pstrauss@csustan.edu).

For full description, see: www.reformationresearch.org/awards.html

Nominees for the award should have made significant contributions to the SRR and to the profession at large; individuals may be nominated by any member of the society. Nominators should include a statement of approximately one paragraph explaining why the nominee is worthy of such an award.

📣Call for Nominations📣
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Nischan Award. This award was established to honor the service and legacy of Dr. Bodo Nischan, who served as SRR secretary.
The due date this year for nominations for the Nischan Award is May 15, 2026.

Mark your calendars!
The Calvin Studies Society is hosting their 2026 colloquium on March 19-21, 2026 with the focus "Calvin and Creation." Please see the attachment and QR code for more information.

News The Sixteenth Century Society Conference is right around the corner! Make sure to join us for our organized and sponsored events! Organized and Sponsored : 1.Plenary: Susan Karant-Nunn, “Martin...

The Sixteenth Century Society Conference is rapidly approaching!
The SRR is sponsoring numerous exciting panels and roundtables at the conference in Portland.
For a full list of sponsored and related panels, please see our website: www.reformationresearch.org/news.html

For more information, contact SRR program chair, David M Luebke (dluebke@uoregon.edu)
See the SRR Website for full information about the submission process

Topics may include:
- 1525 as a year of revolutions
- Adult baptism and the pluralization of religion
- Transformations of masculinity, gender, and marriage
- The Peasants' War
- Theology and reform as ideologies of resistance
- Social grievance and religious change

News The Society for Reformation Research invites paper submissions for our panels at this year's Sixteenth Century Society Conference! For questions, contact David M. Luebke ( dluebke@uoregon.edu ) .

CFP: SRR-Sponsored Panels at the Sixteenth Century Society, 10/30-11/1 2025.
The SRR invites individual papers and complete sessions on any theme, but especially the Revolutions of 1525. Dead 15 April 2025
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"The time I spent in the archive there helped change the orientation of my project and led to an invitation to present at a European conference. I'm very thankful to the SRR for providing these opportunities!"

"The Christmas grant was one of the first substantial external grants to fund my dissertation research. The support from the Society for Reformation Research allowed me to spend a week in Halle, Germany at the Francke Foundations....

All geographic and confessional concentrations are eligible for the $2000 award, for students just beginning their archival research as well as those finishing up.

@kkaelin.bsky.social , the 2021 Chrisman awardee, shares how this grant impacted her research and forthcoming book:

Awards To honor a long-time member and past president of the Society for Reformation Research, the society offers the Miriam Usher Chrisman Travel Fellowship of $2000 every other year in odd-numbered years.....

Grant Opportunity ‼️

The Miriam Usher Chrisman Travel Fellowship supports doctoral research on a subject pertaining to religion and the Reformation in some significant way.

Applications close on February 15, 2025.

reformationresearch.org/awards.html

To submit, please send proposals to the SRR program chair, David M. Luebke (dluebke@uoregon.edu)

For full CFP see: reformationresearch.org/meetings.html

📣 CFP: Deadline April 22 📣

The SRR is accepting proposals for SRR-sponsored sessions at SCSC 2024 (10/31-11/2) in Toronto.

In light of the 500th anniversary of the Peasants' War, sponsored panels should fit the theme of "Conflict, Religion, & Reform."

📣 Award Opportunity 📣

The SRR is accepting nominations for the 2024 Nischan Award for Scholarship, Civility, and Service.

Deadline for nominations is May 15, 2024.

Please see the SRR Award's page for more information:
www.reformationresearch.org/awards.html

These relational elements have invigorated my research and provided necessary inspiration to continue developing this and other projects."

Congrats again, Katherine!

We love seeing what SRR grants can do for early career members!

(4/3, oops!).

facilitated many professional connections with scholars of medieval/early modern book culture. I established personal connections with scholars whose work has significantly impacted my own. (3/3)

"Thanks to the SRR, I was able to conduct and publish original research in Summer 2023. The SRR award helped cover costs of travel and lodging during a five-week trip to the UK, including the British Library, Durham University Library, and the Oxford Bodleian.
On a personal note, this award (2/3)

Reminder, the deadline for the Schutte Early Career Research Grant is TOMORROW, March 1.

SRR Member Katherine Goodwin shares what an early career grant from the SRR did for her research (1/3)

2024 Latin Workshop

📣Summer Opportunity📣
Meeter Center Summer Latin Workshop at Calvin University, July 8-19, 2024. Deadline March 5.

Workshop on early modern Latin for scholars (and graduate students!). Stipends available for those living outside of Grand Rapids. For more information see: calvin.edu/centers-inst...

Lomperis is the Richard B. Parker Professor of Theology and Wesleyan Thought at George Fox University as well as an officer and member of the SRR.

This article is the first in a series of publication spotlights for SRR members!

In her piece, Lomperis "investigates Martin Luther's theology of bodily healing and medicine" which she argues "has been largely overlooked in scholarly treatments of Luther's approaches to suffering."

New Year, new issue of The Archive for Reformation History/Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte!

This issue includes Ekaterina N. Lomperis's article "Medicine and Healing in Martin Luther's Thought"
doi.org/10.14315/arg...

Grant Opportunity ‼️

Applications are open for the Anne Jacobson Schutte Early Career Research Grant. The grant supports advanced graduate students or early career scholars who must travel to Europe for research.

Applications close on March 1, 2024.

reformationresearch.org/awards.html

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