Contact Information

Office: LA202C Department of History and Geography 100 N. University Drive University of Central Oklahoma Edmond, OK 73034-5209 405-974-5453 mspringer@uco.edu

Professional Information

Lutherhaus, Wittenberg, Germany

Education PhD        University of St. Andrews, Scotland (2005) MA          Portland State University (2000) BA          University of Oregon (1991) Select Honors and Awards ▪ Faculty Research Grant, University of Central Oklahoma (2007) ▪ American Friends of the Herzog August Bibliothek Research Grant (2007) ▪ Maria-Sibylla-Merian Postoctoral Fellowship, University of Erfurt (2006) ▪ Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Postdoctoral Fellowship at  the Institut für Europäischer Geschichte, Mainz (2005) ▪ Student Research Fellowship, H. Henry Meeter Center, Calvin College (2002) ▪ David and Dorothy Daniell William Tyndale Fund Scholarship (2000-2003) ▪ Postgraduate Research Award, University of St. Andrews (2001 & 2002) ▪ 'Best Postgraduate Paper', Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Washington State   University (2000)

Select Publications

Michael S. Springer, Restoring Christ's Church: John a Lasco and the Forma ac ratio (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007). Part of the series St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History.

Numerous book reviews in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Calvin Theological Journal, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, and the Dutch Review of Church History

Select Papers Presented

Bibliothak Augusta at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany

'Reworking the relationship between church and state: Friedrich Myconius and the superintendent's office', Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Salt Lake City, October 2007

'Johannes a Lasco und die Forma ac ratio: die Gestalt und Auswirkung seiner Kirchenordnung', Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, November 2005

'Consensus and the Reformation: John a Lasco and the struggle for doctrinal unity', Modern History Seminar, University of Birmingham (England), October 2005

'Bringing together collegial presbytery and episcopacy: the development of polity in the Scottish Kirk', Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Toronto, October 2004

'John a Lasco and the Strangers' Church in London: an early presbytery?', Sixteenth Century Society Conference, San Antonio, October 2002

'Protestant Church Orders in Sixteenth Century Germany', European Reformation Research Group, Reading (England)September 2002

'John a Lasco and the Polish Reformation' presented at a conference on 'The First Order: clerical discourse and devotional patterns in East Central Europe, 14th-18th centuries', Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj (Romania), September 2001

'Them and Us: the impact of Anabaptism on Jan Laski's reformed church orders', European Reformation Research Group, Dumfries (Scotland), August 2001

 

 

Select Future Courses

Links

Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies (Crems), University of Birmingham (England) Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel (Germany) H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin College Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz (Germany) Internet History Sourcebooks Project, Fordham University Reformation Studies Institute, University of St. Andrews (Scotland) The Division for Late Medieval and Reformation, University of Arizona University of St. Andrews (Scotland)

Replica, Gutenberg Press, Mainz, Germany