CURRICULUM VITAE

Gordon E. Michalson, Jr.
Office of the President
New College of Florida
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, Florida 34243-2109
Phone:  (941) 487-4100
FAX:  (941) 487-4101
Email: michalson@ncf.edu

EDUCATION 

Ph.D., “With Distinction,” Princeton University (Philosophy of Religion), 1976
Rel.M., Claremont School of Theology (Philosophy of Religion/Theology), 1972
B.A., Magna cum Laude, Yale University (History), 1970

EMPLOYMENT

  • President, New College of Florida, October, 2001---

  • Acting President, New College of Florida, July, 2001-September, 2001

  • Visiting Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University, Spring, 2001

  • Professor of Humanities, New College of the University of South Florida/New College of Florida, 1992-present

  • Dean and Warden, New College of USF, 1992-97

  • From Assistant Professor to Professor, Department of Religion, Oberlin College, 1977-92 (Department Chair, 1989-92)

  • From Instructor to Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Davidson College, 1975-77

  • Teaching Assistant, Department of Religion, Princeton University, 1974-75

 

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Board of Directors, Florida Association of Colleges and Universities, 2005-present; Vice President, 2007-08

  • President, Southern University Conference, 2007-present

  • Board of Trustees, LeRoy Collins Institute, 2003-present

  • American Consulting Editor, THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT (1991-93)

  • Director, Danenberg Oberlin-in-London Program, 1987-88, 1989-92

  • Advisory Council, Department of Religion, Princeton University, 1988-2000; Chair, 1995-97

  • Board of Trustees, Shansi Memorial Association, 1988-1992

  • Oberlin College Board of Trustees Educational Programs and Policies Committee, 1987-1992

  • Visiting Senior Member, Linacre College, University of Oxford, Trinity Term, 1989

  • National Endowment for the Humanities (N.E.H.) Distinguished Scholar, Bucknell University, 1985

  • Visiting Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University, 1984-85

  • Visiting Fellow, Department of Religion, Princeton University, 1980-81

SELECTED  FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

  • American Theological Society (by election), 1989-present

  • N.E.H. Fellowship for College Teachers, 1992-93 (declined)

  • Oberlin College Research Status Appointment, 1992-93 (declined)

  • N.E.H. Fellowship for College Teachers, 1988-89

  • N.E.H. Summer Stipend, 1984

  • Oberlin College Research Status Appointment, 1984-85

  • Oberlin College H.H. Powers Travel Grant (Great Britain and Germany), 1981

  • N.E.H. Fellowship for College Teachers, 1980-81

  • N.E.H. Summer Stipend, 1978

  • Davidson College Summer Research Fellowship (Germany), 1976

  • Kent Fellowship (Danforth Foundation), 1974-75

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Books:

  • KANT AND THE PROBLEM OF GOD (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999)

  • FALLEN FREEDOM: KANT ON RADICAL EVIL AND MORAL REGENERATION (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1990)

  • LESSING’S “UGLY DITCH”: A STUDY OF THEOLOGY AND HISTORY (University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985)

  • THE HISTORICAL DIMENSIONS OF A RATIONAL FAITH: THE ROLE OF HISTORY IN KANT’S RELIGIOUS THOUGHT (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1977)

Edited Book:

  • American Consulting Editor, THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993)  

Selected Articles:

  • “Kant, the Bible, and the Recovery from Radical Evil,” in Sharon Anderson-Gold and Pablo Muchnik (eds.), KANT’S ANATOMY OF EVIL (forthcoming)

  • “Re-reading the Post-Kantian Tradition with Milbank,” JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS 32 (June, 2004)

  • “Immanuel Kant,” THE ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PROTESTANTISM (New York: Routledge, 2004).

  • “God and Kant’s Ethical Commonwealth,” THE THOMIST 65 (2001).

  • “Lessing,” THE ABINGDON DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999).

  • “The Problem of Salvation in Kant’s RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON ALONE,” INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY 37 (1997).

  • “Cartesianism,”  THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993).

  • "Faith and History,” THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993).

  • "Kierkegaard’s Debt to Lessing: Reply to Whisenant,” MODERN THEOLOGY 6 (1990).

  • “Moral Regeneration and Divine Aid in Kant,” RELIGIOUS STUDIES 25 (1989).

  • “The Response to Lindbeck,” MODERN THEOLOGY 4 (1988).

  • "The Inscrutability of Moral Evil in Kant,” THE THOMIST 51 (1987).

  • "The Non-Moral Element in Kant’s Moral Proof of the Existence of God,” SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY 39 (1986).

  • “Faith and History: The Shape of the Problem,” MODERN THEOLOGY 1 (1985).

  • "Theology, Historical Knowledge, and the Contingency-Necessity Distinction,”INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION 14 (1983).

  • “Pannenberg on the Resurrection and Historical Method,” SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY 33 (1980).

  • "Lessing, Kierkegaard, and the ‘Ugly Ditch’: A Re-examination,” JOURNAL OF RELIGION 59 (1979).

  • "The Role of History in Kant’s Religious Thought,” ANGLICAN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW 59 (1977).

  • “The Impossibility of Religious Progress in Kant,” in PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND THEOLOGY: 1976, ed. P. Slater (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1976).

  • “Bultmann’s Metaphysical Dualism,” RELIGION IN LIFE 44 (1975).

 

 

   
   

 
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