Department of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
Phone: (402) 472-3239
Fax: (402) 472-8839
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Joined the Department:
August 1989
Amy Nelson Burnett is a specialist in early modern European history. Her research focuses on the early modern Protestant clergy and the early Reformed tradition more generally. She is the author of Teaching the Reformation: Ministers and their Message in Basel, 1529-1629 (2006), which was awarded the Gerald Strauss Prize of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, and The Yoke of Christ: Martin Bucer and Christian Discipline (1996), which won the Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History. She has also written numerous essays and articles on the Protestant Reformation in southern Germany and Switzerland. She is the recipient of a Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and has taught at the University of Hannover in Germany. Professor Burnett is one of three faculty coordinators of the Peer Review of Teaching Project, which supports faculty in assessing and documenting their teaching and the student learning that results. Together with Daniel Bernstein, Amy Goodburn, and Paul Savory, she is co-author of Making Teaching and Learning Visible: Course Portfolios and the Peer Review of Teaching, and, with Drs. Savory and Goodburn, of Inquiry into the College Classroom: A Journey Toward Scholarly Teaching. She received a College Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1999 and was inducted into UNL's Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2007.
