Dr. Karen Bruhn

Faculty Chair

Location: Irish A Hall, Room 211
Voice: 480-727-6721
Fax: 480-965-0760
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Fall 2007 Office Hours:Tuesdays 2:30 - 3:30 PM; Thursdays 9:30 - 11:30 AM; and by appointment

Karen Bruhn earned a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her field is late medieval and early modern European religious development, with an emphasis in Tudor and Jacobean England. In addition to her Human Event Classes she teaches classes on world religions, the history of Christianity, and the relationships between literary and theological discourses in Europe and the Americas. Recently, she has published articles on how England turned from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and her current research centers on how the Protestant and Catholic disputes figure in the plays of Shakespeare. That research forms the core of her class "Religion and Culture in Shakespeare’s England", part of the curriculum in the 2006 British Isles Honors Summer Study Abroad Program. She also teaches in the Religious Studies Department, offering a class on the Protestants and Catholics in Early Modern Europe". Dr. Bruhn is a senator in the Academic Senate, and is a member of the steering committee on the History of Christianity section of the American Academy of Religion. In 2006, she received the Barrett Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Bruhn CV
Dr. Bruhn How To Read A Primary Source
Dr. Bruhn NY Times Article on Belief and Proof
Dr. Bruhn Fa07 HON272 The Human Event

Organization Affiliations:
American Society of Church History
     http://www.churchhistory.org/
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
     http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/
Renaissance Society of America
     http://www.rsa.org/