ROBERT
H. STOCKMAN
224
Swanson Circle
South
Bend, IN 46615
219‑289‑4467
(tel); 219‑289‑4673 (FAX)
rstockman at usbnc.org
EDUCATION:
Th. D., March 1990, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA.
Field:
History of Religion in the United States
Dissertation
topic: The Bahá'í Faith and American Protestantism
General examinations: Early
Christianity, 25‑325 CE; American Religious History; Religion and
American culture.
M. T. S., 1982, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA.
Concentration: World Religions and
American Religion.
M. Sc., 1977, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Field of Study: Geology.
B. A., 1975, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
Majors: Geology and Archaeology.
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE:
Instructor of Religion, DePaul University, Chicago, Ill., 1990‑1995, 1996-1998,
1999-present. See list of courses taught below.
Assistant Professor of Religion, DePaul
University, Chicago, IL,
1995-96
Teaching Assistant, Harvard University, 1986‑1989.
Led discussion sections and lectured
in "Christian‑Muslim Dialogue" and "West and Nonwest:
Perceptions of Each Other."
Instructor of Geology and Astronomy and operator of the Astronomy Observatory,
1983‑1990, Bentley College, Waltham, MA.
Taught two sections of the two‑semester
introductory geology course, two sections of a two‑semester introductory
astronomy course, and tutored students in telescopic astronomy in the
observatory.
Instructor
of Geology, University of
Lowell, Lowell, MA, 1983‑84.
Taught a two‑semester introductory geology sequence for one
hundred twenty undergraduates.
Instructor of Geology, Boston State College, Boston, MA,
1980‑82.
Taught one or two courses each
semester, both introductory geology and a course for geology majors.
Instructor of Geology and Oceanography, Community College of Rhode Island,
Lincoln, RI, 1977‑80.
Taught a two‑semester sequence
of introductory geology and a two‑semester sequence of introductory
oceanography.
Graduate Research Assistant, Brown University, Providence, R.I.,
1975‑77.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Thornton Chase: The First American Bahá'í (Wilmette, Ill.: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 2002)
The Bahá'í Faith in America, Vol. 2, Early
Expansion, 1900‑1912
(Oxford: George Ronald, 1995).
The Bahá'í Faith in America, Vol. 1, Origins,
1892‑1900 (Wilmette,
Ill.: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1985).
The Bahá'í Faith and American Protestantism. Th. D. dissertation, Harvard University,
1990 (unpublished).
Articles:
Review of Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee,
“Life and Death of Planet Earth,” in World Order, vol. 34, no. 3
(spring, 2003), 42-47.
“The Bahá'í Faith,” in Dictionary of
American History (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002).
“The Bahá'í Faith and Interfaith Relations: A
Brief History,” in World Order, vol. 33, no. 4 (Summer, 2002), 19-33.
“Bahá'í Faith,” in Religions of the World:
A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices, ed. J. Gordon Melton
and Martin Baumann (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2002), 102-114
“True, Corinne Knight,” in Women Building
Chicago, 1790-1990, ed. Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast (Bloomington,
Ind: Indiana University Press, 2001), 891-93.
“Bahá'í faith,” in Encyclopedia of
American Religious History, ed. Edward L. Queen, II, Stephen R. Prothero,
and Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. (New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, 2001), 53-55.
“The Unity Principle: Ideas of Social Concord
and Discord in the Bahá'í Faith,” in Joseph Gittler, ed., Research in Human
Social Conflict, Volume 2 (Westview, Conn.: JAI Press, 2000), pp. 1-19.
Response to Juan R. I Cole, “Race,
Immorality, and Money in the American Bahá'í Community: Impeaching the Los
Angeles Spiritual Assembly,”Religion (2000) 30, 133-39.
“Bahá'í Faith,” in James R. Lewis, The
Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus
Books, 1998), 64-71.
“Revelation, Interpretation, and Elucidation
in the Bahá'í Writings” in Moojan Momen, ed., Scripture and Revelation
(Oxford: George Ronald, 1998).
The Bahá'í Faith section of The Pluralism
Project (CD Rom, Columbia Univ. Press, 1997).
“The Bahá'í Faith in England and Germany,
1900-1913” in World Order magazine, vol. 27, no. 3, (spring, 1996),
31-42.
“The Vision of the Bahá'í Faith,” in Martin
Forward, Ultimate Visions: Reflections on the Religions We Choose
(Oxford: One World, 1995), 266-74.
“The Bahá'í Faith in the 1990s,” article in
Dr. Timothy Miller, ed., America's Alternative Religions (Albany: State
Univ. of New York Press, 1995)
“The Bahá'í Faith: A Portrait,” in Joel
Beversluis, ed., A Sourcebook for the Earth's Community of Religions, 2d
ed. (Grand Rapids. Mich.: CoNexus Press, 1995).
“Paul Johnson's ‘Theosophical Influence in
Bahá'í History: Some Comments’” in Theosophical History, vol. 5, no. 4
(October 1994): 137-43.
“The Bahá'í Faith in America: One Hundred
Years,” in World Order, vol. 25, no. 3 (Spring 1994): 9-23.
“Women in the American Bahá'í Community,
1900-1912,” in World Order, vol. 25, no. 2 (Winter 1993-94): 17-34.
“Jesus Christ in the Bahá'í Writings,” in The
Bahá'í Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 1 (1992): 33-41.
Review of John S. Hatcher's The Purpose of
Physical Reality, in Encyclopedie Universelle Philosophique (Paris).
Review of Marzieh Gail's Summon Up
Remembrance, in Iranian Studies, 22.4 (1989): 118-20.
Review of R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram's Music,
Devotions, and Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, in The Journal of Bahá'í Studies,
vol. 1, no. 2 (1988-89): 71-78.
“Passing of the First American Bahá'í,” in Bahá'í
News, no. 679 (Oct. 1987), 4‑9.
“The Bahá'í Faith: Beginnings in North
America,” World Order magazine, vol. 18, no. 4, (Summer, 1984).
Forthcoming Articles:
“The Baha'i Faith and Globalization,
1900-1912,” forthcoming in a peer reviewed volume on globalization to be
published by the University of Copenhagen.
“The Bahá'í Faith,” in the forthcoming Worldmark
Encyclopedia.
“The Bahá'í Faith in New York State,” in the
forthcoming Encyclopedia of New York State.
Editor or Compiler:
“The American Defense of Iran’s Bahá'í
Institute for Higher Education” in World Order, vol. 30, no. 4 (Summer
1999), 7-28.
Thornton Chase, “Impressions of `Abdu'l-Bahá
and His Station,” in World Order, vol. 24, no. 1 (Fall 1993):
13-22.
RESEARCH PROJECT
COORDINATION:
Models of Unity
Models of
Unity II
Note: In both cases my role
was coordinator of the research, editor and compiler of manuscripts written by
others, and overall author and editor of the booklets. The work was done as
Director of the Research Office of the National Spiritual Assembly of the
Bahá'ís of the United States, and the National Spiritual Assembly is considered
the author of the publications.
PROFESSIONAL
TALKS:
"The Bahá'í Concept of Unity and its
Implications for External and Internal Dialogue," CESNUR Conference,
Philadelphia, June 1999.
"The Bahá'í Concept of Unity as an
Ethical Principle," Bahá'í Studies Colloquy of the American Academy of
Religion, November 1998.
"The Baha'i Position on
Christianity," Twentieth `Irfán Colloquium, Louhelen Bahá'í School,
October, 1998.
"The North American Visits of
`Abdu'l-Bahá and Swami Vivekananda: Some Comparisons," talk at the Bahá'í
Studies Colloquy of the American Academy of Religion, November 1995.
"Concepts of Revelation, Interpretation,
and Elucidation in the Bahá'í Scriptures," talk at fourth Haj Mehdi
Arjmand Scripture Studies Colloquium, DePoort, Netherlands, November 4, 1994.
"The Bahá'í Faith and Higher Biblical
Criticism," semiannual meeting of the Religious Studies Seminar of the
Association for Bahá'í Studies for English-speaking Europe,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K., December 1993.
"The Bahá'í Faith and Interreligious Dialogue,"
Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago, August 1993.
"The Bahá'í Faith in the Nineties,"
annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1992.
"American Bahá'í History, 1921 to the
Present," semiannual meeting of the Religious Studies Seminar of the
Association for Bahá'í Studies for English-speaking Europe,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K., July 1992.
"American Bahá'í Identity,
1894-1921," semiannual meeting of the Religious Studies Seminar of the
Association for Bahá'í Studies for English-speaking Europe,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K., December 1991.
"Sisters in the Spirit: American and
Iranian Bahá'í Women," annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion,
November 1991.
"Redeemer Nation Revisited: American
Bahá'ís and the Destiny of America," annual meeting of the American
Academy of Religion, November 1990.
"The Role of the Bible in the Bahá'í
Scriptures," annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November
1988.
"The Challenges of Bahá'í‑Christian
Dialogue," annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November,
1987.
"A Survey of Scholarship in American
Bahá'í History," annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion,
November 1985.
"The Bahá'í Faith and the Bible in the
United States, 1892‑1900," annual meeting of the American Academy of
Religion, December 1984.
COURSES TAUGHT AT
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, 1990-2003:
Religious Studies
211-101: The American Religious Experience (also cross-listed as History
278-101: History of American Religion)
Religious Studies 243-402: Buddhism: An Intensive
Introduction
Religious Studies 210-101:
The Christian Experience
Religious
Studies 203-302: Comparative Religions Worlds
Religious
Studies 200-601: Debates About God
Religious
Studies 100: Introduction to Religion
Religious
Studies 265-101: The Islamic Experience
Religious
Studies 217: Islam in Global Contexts
Religion
233-601: Jesus and Christian Origins
Religious
Studies 263-101: Religions of the Middle East
Religious
Studies 222-401: Western Religious Traditions and Contemporary Moral Issues
MEMBERSHIPS:
Advisory Board of the Pluralism Project,
1998-present
American Academy of Religion, 1984‑present
member of the Bahá'í Studies unit of
the American Academy of Religion, 1984‑present; chairperson of the unit,
1985‑86, 1989‑91.
Middle East Studies Association, 1990‑present
Society of Iranian Studies, 1990‑present
American Historical Association, 1990‑present
Editorial Board, World Order magazine,
a Bahá'í intellectual and literary magazine, 1990‑present.
Association for Bahá'í Studies, 1978‑present
Member of the Executive Committee of the
Association for Bahá'í Studies, 1990‑98.
Member and chair of the Study of Religions
Section of the Association for Bahá'í Studies, 1989‑present.
LANGUAGES: French; Esperanto; a little
Persian, Spanish, German, and Latin
REFERENCES: Dr. William Hutchison, Harvard University; Dr. Roy Mottahedeh,
Harvard University; Dr. Firuz Kazemzadeh, Emeritus, Yale University; Dr.
Heshmat Moayyad, University of Chicago.
BAHA'I
POSITIONS:
Academic Director of the Wilmette Institute,
Feb. 1995-present
Coordinator of Institute for Bahá'í Studies,
October 1994-present.
Coordinator of Research Office, Bahá'í
National Center, May 1990‑present.
Coordinator of Literature Review, Bahá'í
National Center, May 1989‑present.
Member of Executive Committee of the
Association for Bahá'í Studies and Liaison Officer between Association for
Bahá'í Studies and Bahá'í National Center, September 1990‑November 1998.
Recording Secretary of Executive Committee of
Association for Bahá'í Studies, 1994-1998
Member of Editorial Board, World Order
magazine, September 1990‑present.
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of
Bahá'í Studies, Sept. 1992‑July 1998