Contact Information
Phone: 202-319-5702
Fax: 202-319-5704
Email: minnich@cua.edu
Nelson H. Minnich, Ph.D.
Ordinary Professor of Church History
Specialization:
Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation
Biography
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Nelson Hubert Minnich has taught Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation history at the Catholic University of America since 1977, holding a joint-position as full professor in the Church History program of the School of Theology and Religious Studies and in the History Department.Since 2005 he has been editor of theCatholic Historical Review, having served for over a quarter-century as advisory and associate editor. He holds degrees in philosophy (BA 1965 Boston College), theology (STB 1970 Boston College), and History (MA 1966 Boston College, PhD 1970 Harvard University with a dissertation on "Episcopal Reform at the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)" directed by Myron P. Gilmore). He is the recipient of fellowships from NEH (1978), Villa I Tatti (1979), the American Academy in Rome (1979-80), ACLS (1979-80, 1986, 1990), the American Philosophical Society (1984), the Renaissance Society of America (2001), and the National Humanities Center (2004-05). In 2007 he was appointed to the Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche. Among the books he has published or co-authored are aFestschrift honoring John Tracy Ellis (1985), three collections of studies that deal mostly with conciliar history from Pisa I to Trent (1993, 2007), and a volume (CWE 84) on Erasmus' controversies with Alberto Pio (2005). He served as the associate editor for the eighty church history entries in the six-volume Encyclopedia of the Renaissance(1999). He is author of nineteen chapters in books, twenty-three articles in scholarly journals, over thirty entries in encyclopedias and reference works, and numerous book reviews. He is active in his local parish of St. Jerome's in Hyattsville, Maryland and is an avid contra and waltz dancer at Glen Echo.
