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Stephen G. Burnett

Associate Professor in Classics and Religious Studies, and History

Contact Information:


240 Andrews Hall

Department of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
Phone: (402) 472-4483
E-mail: email address


Joined the Department:

2000


Education:

1990 - University of Wisconsin-Madison: Ph.D. in Hebrew and Semitic Studies.

1983 - University of Wisconsin-Madison: M.A. in Hebrew and Semitic Studies

1982 - Trinity Evangelical Divinity School: M.A. in Old Testament Studies

1978 - University of Wisconsin-Madison: B.A. in English Literature and in History Graduated with academic distinction

Honors and Fellowships:


2004 Research Fellowship, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel (Fall)
2004 Grant-in-Aid, Research Council, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2001-02 Fulbright Fellowship, University of Potsdam
2001 Oldfather Fund Grant-in-Aid, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2001 Exchange Professor, University of Hannover, Germany
2000-01 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture International Fellowship
1999-2000 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
1999 Center for Judaic Studies Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (Fall)
1999 Grant-in-Aid, Humanities Institute, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1998-99 Peer Review of Teaching Fellow
1998 Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Grant-in-Aid
1996 Nominated Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Association of Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1995 Research Grant, American Philosophical Society
1994 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History for book From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies
1991 American Academy of Religion Research Assistance Grant


Books:

Burnett, Stephen G. Jews, Judaism and the Reformation in Sixteenth Century Germany. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006.

Articles:

Burnett, Stephen G. "German Jewish Printing in the Reformation Era (1530-1633)" Judaism and the Reformation in Sixteenth Century Germany. (2006): pp. 503-527.
Burnett, Stephen G. "Christian Aramaism in Reformation-Era Europe" Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients. (2005): pp. 421-36.
Burnett, Stephen G. "Spokesmen for Judaism: Medieval Jewish Polemicists and their Christian Readers in the Reformation Era" Reuchlin und seine Erben. (2005): 41-51.
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