Dr. Michael Kugler

Education:
Ph.D., University of Chicago
M.A., Western Washington University
B.A., Judson Baptist College

712-707-7056
kugler@nwciowa.edu

Dr. Kugler primarily teaches European history from the Reformation through the modern era. His research and writing include the Enlightenment era, particularly in Scotland; historical narrative in a variety of forms, including formal history but also film and graphic novels; and more recently, the history of incarnational theology. He has presented papers at a wide variety of conferences and has published reviews and essays in Fides et Historia, The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, The Newsletter of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society , and Scotia.

+Publications and presentations"The Faun Beneath the Lamppost: When Christian Scholars Talk About the Enlightenment," Christian Scholar's Review (2017) "A Nebraska Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II," The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (2017) "Enlightenment History, Objectivity, and the Moral Imagination", a chapter in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation, ed. John Fea (Notre Dame, 2010). "Adam Ferguson and Enlightened Provincial Ideology in Scotland", in Adam Ferguson: A Reassessment, v.2, ed. Eugene Heath and Vincenzo Merolle (Pickering and Chatto, 2009). The Cross, the Powers, and Enlightenment Techniques of the Self,' Fides et Historia (2004). "How Many Cheers?: Assessing the Enlightenment Grand Narrative of Modern Progress", presented to the Conference on Faith and History, George Fox University, October 7-9, 2010. "Civil Piety and Christian Culture in the Debate Over John Home's Douglas", presented to the Joint Conference for the Society for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, and the International Adam Smith Society, Princeton Theological Seminary, June 25, 2010. "The Faun Beneath the Lamppost: What Christians Often Mean When They Talk About the Enlightenment", Conference on Secularization and Revival, Baylor University, October 9, 2009. "Faust's Bastards: Academic Humility in the Shadow of the Cross", Conference on Christianity and the University, Baylor University, March 18, 2004.

+Professional experienceProfessor of History since 1994 Assistant Coach and Goalkeeper Coach, Men's Soccer, Northwestern College (until 2007)

+MembershipsThe Conference on Faith and History The Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society

+HonorsHess Fellow, The US Holocaust Memorial and Museum, January, 2017 Calvin College Summer Faculty Fellow, 1997, 2007 Teaching Excellence Award, Northwestern College, 2006 Eric Molen Prize, for the paper 'Provincial Intellectuals: A Model for Enlightenment Studies,' delivered at the annual conference of the East-Central American Society of Eighteenth Century Scholars, 1992 Century Scholar, University of Chicago, 1986-89