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CURRICULUM VITAE
George V. Campbell
George V. ("Van") Campbell, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology and Religion
128 Garden Avenue Grove City College, 100 Campus Drive, Box 3089
Grove City, PA 16127 Grove City, PA 16127-2104
(724) 458-0101 (724) 458-3319;
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born: April 15, 1953, Jackson, TN
Reared: Huntsville, AL (1957-71); lived in Panama Canal Zone, January, 1971-August, 1973
Marital Status: Married Karen P. Underwood, April 24, 1976
Children Derek, born July 31, 1982; Joanna, born July 4, 1984
Health: Excellent
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Date Institution Degree
1999 University of Pittsburgh Ph.D., Religious Studies; focus in Sociology of Religion Pittsburgh, PA Dissertation Advisor: Professor Roland Robertson, now
of the University of Aberdeen (Sociology Department)
Dissertation: "The Relativization of Tradition: A Study of ‘The Evangelical Post-Conservative Controversy’ in Contemporary American Evangelical Protestantism."
1988 Indiana University of PA One semester Psy.D. counseling course in Family Therapy
Indiana, PA
1981 Dallas Theological Seminary Th.M. (Master of Theology)
Dallas, TX Hebrew, Semitics and Old Testament Studies, and Greek
1975 Bryan College B.S. Double Major: Business Administration and Natural Dayton, TN Science
1971 Balboa High School High School Diploma
Panama Canal Zone
PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
September, 2008 to Present Professor of Sociology and Religion
Grove City College, Grove City, PA
September, 2005- August, 2008 Associate Professor of Sociology and Religion
Grove City College, Grove City, PA
September, 2000-August, 2005 Assistant Professor of Sociology and Religion
Grove City College, Grove City, PA
September, 1999-May, 2000 Temporary Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Indiana University of PA, Indiana, PA
April, 1985-August, 2000 Pastor
Calvary Evangelical Free Church, Indiana, PA
November, 1984-April, 1985 Interim Pastor
Stamps Presbyterian Church, Stamps, AR
August, 1981-August, 1984 Pastor
Grace Bible Church, Homer, LA
PUBLICATIONS
Biblical Foundations for Christian Leaders (Victoriya Printers, Chennai (Madras), India (June, 2008).
“Refusing God’s Blessing: An Exposition of Genesis 11:27-32,” Bibliotheca Sacra 165 (July, 2008): 268-82 (a refereed journal).
“Religion and the Phases of Globalization,” pp. 281-302 in Religion, Globalization and Culture, Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman, eds. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2007).
“Running Ahead of God: An Exposition of Genesis 16,” Bibliotheca Sacra 163 (July, 2006): 276-91 (a refereed journal).
Author of, Everything You Know Seems Wrong: Globalization and the Relativizing of Tradition
(University Press of America, 2005).
Book description: A potent cause of the current cultural conflicts, and of the periodic recurrence of such conflicts is an effect of pluralism and globalization called the "relativizing of tradition," largely unexplored until now. Everything You Know Seems Wrong elucidates this process and discusses how it undermines established beliefs and traditions. The book examines the sense of threat and insecurity that "relativizing of tradition" produces and the range of reactions it generates, including conflict within individuals, movements, and cultures. The book examines in depth the contemporary effects of the process in America's first faith, Evangelical Protestantism, and then looks at the likely effects of the process in the global future.
Wadsworth's Sociology Online Resources and Writing Companion for Kendall's Sociology in Our Times, 5th edition. 2005. With Michele Adams, David J. Ayers, George Van Pelt Campbell. Thomson/Wadsworth. ISBN: 0-534-62637-8.
"Religion and Culture: Challenges and Prospects in the Next Generation," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society June, 2000 (a refereed journal).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Taught “Biblical Foundations for Christian Leaders” course to 60 poor Christian Leaders in Chennai
(Madras), India, January 7-12, 2008 (equivalent to ¾ of an Intersession course).
Participant in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, June 25-July 13, 2007, at The Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, entitled, “Teaching the Reformation in a Pluralist Age.”
Participant in Scholars’ Seminar at Calvin College, “Taste and See that the Lord is Good: Liturgical Participation and the Dynamics of Happiness,” July 10-28, 2006, led by Dr. Ellen Charry, Margaret W. Harmon Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary.
Interviewed in the Croatian publication Epoha: Journal for Cultural Communication, for the September, 2006, edition devoted to globalization, Elia Pekica Pagon, editor (www.epoha.net).
I presented a professional paper entitled, “The Effects of Globalization on Religion” at the 2005 Pruit Memorial Symposium Conference “Global Christianity: Challenging Modernity and the West,” sponsored by Baylor University in Waco, TX on November 12, 2005.
I presented a professional paper entitled, “Everything You Know Seems Wrong: How Globalization
Undermines Moral Consensus,” at the National Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of
Religion, San Francisco, CA, August 14, 2004.
Participant in Scholars' Seminar at Calvin College, "Morality, Culture, and the Power of Religion in Social Life," funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, June 25 - July 27, 2001, led by Dr. Christian Smith, then Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, currently Professor of Sociology, Notre Dame University.
I presented a professional paper entitled, "Religion and Culture: Challenges and Prospects in the Next Twenty Years," at the National Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Orlando, FL, November 19, 1998.
I presented a professional paper entitled, "The Future of Religion: Secularization and Sacralization in the Modern World (A Study of the Secularization Thesis)," April 7, 1995, at the Eastern Regional Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Phoenixville, PA.
I presented a professional paper entitled "Social Forces Behind the 'New Christian Right'," Nov. 9, 1993, at the National Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Washington, DC.
I presented a professional paper entitled, "A Literary Approach to Ezra-Nehemiah: Structure, Themes, Theology," on April 6, 1990, to the Eastern Region Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Hatfield, PA.
I presented a professional paper entitled, "Nehemiah 7: A Study in Exegesis of Genealogies and Lists," on March 4, 1983 to the Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Longview, TX.
Founder and Chair, “Religion and Culture Study Group,” Evangelical Theological Society (1998-2001).
Listed in Who’s Who in America, 2006 edition (60th edition).
Listed in Who’s Who in America, 2005 edition (59th edition).
Listed in Who’s Who in America, 2004 edition (58th edition).
Listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2002 edition.
I am a member of the Association for the Sociology of Religion.
I am a member of the Evangelical Theological Society (since 1977).
REFERENCES
Dr. Paul R. Schaefer Chair of my second Department
Chair, Department of Religion Ordained in the Presbyterian Church of America
Professor of Religion
Grove City College
100 Campus Drive, Box 3080
Grove City, PA 16127
724-458-2202
Dr. David Ayers Chair of my primary Department
Assistant Dean, Calderwood School
of Arts and Letters
Chair, Department of Sociology
Professor of Sociology
Grove City College
100 Campus Drive, Box 2594
Grove City, PA 16127
Office: (724) 458-2010
Dr. Eugene Merrill Personal friend; my Th.M. Thesis advisor
Dallas Theological Seminary Professor of Semitics and Old Testament Studies
3909 Swiss Avenue Dallas Theological Seminary
Dallas, TX 75204 (214) 824-3094
Professor Roland Robertson Dissertation Advisor
Professor of Sociology Until May, 1999:
Department of Sociology Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology
Edward Wright Building Professor of Religious Studies
University of Aberdeen University of Pittsburgh
Aberdeen AB24 3QY Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Scotland UK
Office: Tel +44 (0)1224 273429 University of Aberdeen: +44 (0)1224 272000
Home phone: +44 1224 634809 Department of Sociology: +44 (0)1224-272760
Messages: +44 (0)1224 272760 & 272729 Http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology/roland.htm