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Robert Kingdon '49 to Receive Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree
Robert Kingdon
Noted historian and educator Robert Kingdon '49 is considered among the most eminent of scholarly experts on the European Reformation. His numerous publications include several books, among them Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France, 1555-1563 (1956); Church and Society in Reformation Europe (1985) and Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva (1995). From 1973 until 1997 Kingdon was editor of the Sixteenth-Century Journal. He is completing a study of the Geneva Consistory during the ministry of John Calvin.
Kingdon has lectured throughout the world. His participation in scholarly societies includes service on the board of directors of the Center of Reformation Research and the presidency of both the American Society for Reformation Research and the American Society of Church History.
His honors include the Docteur ès lettres, honoris causa, awarded by the University of Geneva, and a festschrift: Regnum, Religio, et Ratio: Essays Presented to Robert M. Kingdon, found in volume eight of Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies (Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1987).
Kingdon was a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1965 until 1998, when he became professor emeritus. A member of the university's Institute for Research in the Humanities, he was its director from 1975 to 1987 and Hilldale Professor from 1988 to 1998. From 1957 to 1965 he was on the history faculty of the University of Iowa. In 1976 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Adelaide in Australia.
Kingdon graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin. His master's and Ph.D. degrees are from Columbia University, where he served as a graduate resident scholar and Lydig Fellow. He was a Rotary Foundation Fellow at the University of Geneva.
William Perlik, chair of Oberlin's Board of Trustees, will present Kingdon for the honorary doctor of humanities degree.
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