Officers and Board Members
Kirk Summers, PRESIDENT
Kirk Summers is Professor of Classics at the University of Alabama, where he serves as director of the Classics program. His research in the past fifteen years has focused on Theodore Beza and the Reformed movement in the latter half of the sixteenth century. He received Masters degrees from Reformed Theological Seminary (Biblical Studies) and Latin (University of Nebraska) and his Ph.D. in Classical Philology from the University of Illinois.
Kyle Dieleman, vice-president and program chair
Dr. Kyle J. Dieleman is Associate Professor of Theology at Dordt University (Sioux Center, IA). Dr. Dieleman's research focuses on the Reformed tradition in the early modern Low Countries with particular attention to the interplay between theology and lived religious experiences. His two book publications include The Battle for the Sabbath in the Dutch Reformation: Devotion or Desecration? (2019, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) and Navigating Reformed Identity in the Rural Dutch Republic: Communities, Belief, and Piety (2023, Amsterdam University Press).
Jennifer Powell McNutt, Past PRESIDENt
Jennifer Powell McNutt is Associate Professor of Theology and History of Christianity at Wheaton College and degree coordinator of the M.A. programs in Theology and History of Christianity. She is currently writing a social history of John Calvin’s theology for the University of Oxford’s Christian Theology in Context series and conducting archival research for a monograph on the history of the French Bible from the Reformation through the Enlightenment. She received her M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary and her Ph.D. in History from the University of St. Andrews.
Kenneth Woo, Secretary-Treasurer
Kenneth Woo is Associate Professor of Church History at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. His current research centers on the history of biblical interpretation and the construction of religious identity. He received his M.Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary and his Th.D. in Reformation Studies from Duke Divinity School.
Amy Nelson Burnett, Board Member (2022-2026)
Photo and bio coming soon.
CHristine Kooi, Board Member (2022-2026)
Christine Kooi is the Lewis, Katheryn and Benjamin Price Professor of European History at Louisiana State University. Her research centers on the religious culture of the early modern Low Countries. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.