Karin Maag, Professor, History 
Director, H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies
(616)526-6089
kmaag@calvin.edu
Office: H. Henry Meeter Center, Hekman Library 416
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Educational background
B.A., Western Society and Culture/Religion, Concordia University, Montreal
M.Phil., Renaissance and Reformation History, University of Saint Andrews, Scotland
Ph.D., Reformation History, University of Saint Andrews, Scotland
Research and professional interests
- Early modern education
- Training of ministers in the sixteenth century
- Relations between civil and ecclesiastical authorities in early modern cities
Recent activities
Prof. Maag was a keynote speaker at the International Calvin Congress in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in August 2010. In June 2011, she gave a paper at a conference on the Reformation in Zurich, Switzerland. She is currently working on a volume of primary source texts on worship in Reformation Geneva, to be published in a series edited by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and published by Eerdmans.
Life outside of Calvin College
Prof. Maag enjoys bike riding, baking, reading historical fiction, and choral singing.
Other information
Prof. Maag is the Director of the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies (in Hekman Library), one of the world's foremost collections of works on or by John Calvin. She has directed the Center since 1997. For more information on the Center or its work, see www.calvin.edu/meeter. Beginning in September 2011, Prof. Maag will focus on directing the Meeter Center and will not be teaching in the department on a regular basis.
See a partial list of Karin Maag's publications.
