Susan C. Karant-Nunn

{{Short description|American historian}}

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| title = President of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference

| term_start = 1992

| term_end = 1993

| birth_name = Susan Catherine Karant

| birth_place = Evanston, Illinois, U.S.

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| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (2003)

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| thesis_title = Lutheran Pastors in Ernestine Saxony and Thuringia, 1521–1346

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| thesis_year = 1971

| doctoral_advisor = Gerald Strauss

| discipline = History of religion

| sub_discipline = Reformation in Germany

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Susan Catherine Karant-Nunn is an American historian. A 2003 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written on the Reformation, including books like Luther's Pastors (1979), Zwickau in Transition, 1500–1547 (1987), The Reformation of Ritual (1997), The Reformation of Feeling (2010), and The Personal Luther (2017). She was president of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in 1992 and became director of the University of Arizona's Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies in 2001.

Biography

Susan Catherine Karant-Nunn was born in Evanston, Illinois. She later obtained her BA (1963) at Cornell College, as well as her MA (1967) and PhD (1971) at Indiana University. Her dissertation Lutheran Pastors in Ernestine Saxony and Thuringia, 1521–1346 was supervised by Gerald Strauss, and the East German government allowed her to personally visit the archives for her doctoral work.{{Cite thesis |last=Boles |first=Susan Karant |title=Lutheran Pastors in Ernestine Saxony and Thuringia, 1521–1346 |date=1971 |publisher=Indiana University |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/12733f7fd6a309742ce6069a832854a8/1}}

In 1970, she started working at Portland State University (PSU) as an assistant professor of history, and she was promoted to associate professor in 1975 and professor in 1983. In 1999, she moved from PSU to the University of Arizona as an associate professor of history, and she was promoted to professor in 2001. She became director of University of Arizona's Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies in 2001.{{Cite web |title=Director Emerita Susan C. Karant-Nunn |url=https://dlmrs.arizona.edu/director-emerita-susan-c-karant-nunn |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=Division for Late Medieval & Reformation Studies}} In 2009, she was appointed Regents' Professor. She was one of three financial benefactors of the Heiko A. Oberman Chair in Late Medieval and Reformation History, and in 2016, the Susan C. Karant-Nunn Chair in Reformation and Early Modern European History was anonymosly endowed at the University of Arizona.

Karant-Nunn specializes in the Reformation, particularly in Germany. In 1979, she republished her dissertation as the book Luther's Pastors.{{Cite book |last=Karant-Nunn |first=Susan C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h9Vx0zkEDtkC |title=Luther's Pastors: The Reformation in the Ernestine Countryside |year=1979 |page=3|publisher=American Philosophical Society }} In 1987, she authored another book, Zwickau in Transition, 1500–1547. She was vice-president (1991) and president (1992) of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.{{Cite web |title=Historical Council List |url=https://www.sixteenthcentury.org/histcouncil |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=Sixteenth Century Society}} She was a 1993–1994 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tübingen; her project, named The Modification of Ecclesiastical Ritual in 16th-Century Germany,{{Cite web |title=Susan Karant-Nunn |url=https://fulbrightscholars.org/grantee/susan-karant-nunn |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=Fulbright Scholar Program}} funded her research for her 1997 book The Reformation of Ritual.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2gaIAgAAQBAJ|first=Susan|last=Karant-Nunn|year=2005|page=|title=The Reformation of Ritual: An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany|publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-82918-7 }} In 2003, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship{{Cite web |title=Susan C. Karant-Nunn |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/susan-c-karant-nunn/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}} for "a study of the molding of religious fervor in the German reformations";{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6QUlAQAAIAAJ |title=Reports of the President and the Treasurer |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |year=2004 |page=86}} this allowed her to finish the research for her 2010 book The Reformation of Feeling.{{Cite book |last=Karant-Nunn |first=Susan C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_xIWDAAAQBAJ |title=The Reformation of Feeling |date=2012 |page=|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-996401-7 }} She has also served as president of the Society for Reformation Research,{{Cite web |title=Susan Karant-Nunn |url=https://hsp.arizona.edu/instructor/susan-karant-nunn/ |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=University of Arizona Humanities Seminar Program}} and she won their 2016 Bodo Nischan Award.{{Cite web |title=Awards |url=https://www.reformationresearch.org/awards.html |access-date=2024-12-06 |publisher=Society for Reformation Research}} She later wrote the books The Personal Luther (2017) and Ritual, Gender, and Emotions (2022).{{Cite book |title=The Personal Luther |chapter=The Personal Luther: Essays on the Reformer from a Cultural Historical Perspective |url=https://brill.com/display/title/35071 |access-date=2024-12-06 |date=2017 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-34888-2 }}{{Cite book |title=Ritual, Gender, and Emotions |url=https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/ritual-gender-and-emotions-9783161613296/ |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=Mohr Siebeck|date=2022 |pages=1–350 |publisher=Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG |isbn=978-3-16-161329-6 }} In 2020, Brill released the 223rd volume of its Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions series, Cultural Shifts and Ritual Transformations in Reformation Europe, as a festschrift in her honor.{{Cite book |title=Cultural Shifts and Ritual Transformations in Reformation Europe: Essays in Honor of Susan C. Karant-Nunn |url=https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/58311 |access-date=2024-12-06 |date=2020 |publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-43602-2 }}

Karant-Nunn also served as the editor or a co-editor for several volumes, specifically Germania Illustrata (1992), Luther on Women: A Sourcebook (2003), The Work of Heiko A. Oberman (2003), Varieties of Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2003), Masculinity in the Reformation Era (2008), and Reformation Research in Europe and North America (2010).{{Cite book |title=Luther on Women: A Sourcebook |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/luther-on-women/54C18535A9CB139F2373F82B75346CEB |access-date=2024-12-06 |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511810367 |isbn=978-0-521-65091-5 |editor-last1=Karant-Nunn |editor-last2=Wiesner-Hanks |editor-first1=Susan C. |editor-first2=Merry E. }}{{Cite book |title=The Work of Heiko A. Oberman |url=https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/7778 |access-date=2024-12-07 |date=2018 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-38201-5 }}{{Cite web |title=Varieties of Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance |url=https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503513898-1 |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=Brepols}} She and Anne Jacobson Schutte were one of the two North American managing co-editor for the Archive for Reformation History from 1998 until 2010.

She married John I. Boles, her Cornell College classmate, on September 2, 1962.{{Cite news |date=1962-09-06 |title=Boles' Take Nantucket Honeymoon |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/300443596/ |work=The Daily Times |page=35 |via=Newspapers.com}} She later married historian Frederick M. Nunn.{{Cite news |last=Sandal |first=Inger |date=2003-04-17 |title=Medieval-Reformation scholar at UA is a Guggenheim fellow |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/221049570/ |work=Arizona Daily Star |page=B2 |via=Newspapers.com}}

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  • (ed. with Scott E. Hendrix) Masculinity in the Reformation Era (2008){{Cite journal |last=Bastress-Dukehart |first=Erica |date=2009 |title=Masculinity in the Reformation Era |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/599937 |journal=Renaissance Quarterly |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=587–589 |doi=10.1086/599937 |jstor=10.1086/599937 |issn=0034-4338 |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Neal |first=Derek |date=2010 |title=Masculinity in the Reformation Era |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/27867759 |journal=The Sixteenth Century Journal |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=308–309 |doi=10.1086/SCJ27867759 |jstor=27867759 |issn=0361-0160 |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Schachter |first=Marc |date=2015 |title=Masculinity in the Reformation Era |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/43900041 |journal=The Catholic Historical Review |volume=101 |issue=2 |pages=366–368 |jstor=43900041 |issn=0008-8080 }}
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  • The Personal Luther (2017){{Cite journal |last=Amos |first=N. Scott |date=2019 |title=The Personal Luther |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0034433819002033/type/journal_article |journal=Renaissance Quarterly |language=en |volume=72 |issue=2 |pages=707–708 |doi=10.1017/rqx.2019.203 |issn=0034-4338 |via=Cambridge University Press|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Rittgers |first=Ronald K. |date=2018 |title=The Personal Luther |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27038594 |journal=The Sixteenth Century Journal |volume=49 |issue=4 |pages=1153–1156 |doi=10.1086/SCJ4904115 |jstor=27038594 |issn=0361-0160 |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Stjerna |first=Kirsi |date=2019 |title=The personal Luther |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022046919000186/type/journal_article |journal=The Journal of Ecclesiastical History |language=en |volume=70 |issue=2 |pages=369–371 |doi=10.1017/S0022046919000186 |issn=0022-0469 |via=Cambridge University Press|url-access=subscription }}
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