Ahlstrom, Sydney E.

  1. Ahlstrom, Sydney E.
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1919 Dec 16 Sydney Eckman Ahlstrom born in Cokato, Minnesota, son of Joseph T. and Selma Eckman Ahlstrom 1941 B.A. Gustavus Adolphus College 1942 1946 U.S. Army, Captain 1946 M.A. University of Minnesota Instructor in history, Gustavus Adolphus 1948 1952 Teaching fellow and history tutor, Harvard University 1951 1952 Fulbright fellow, University of Strasbourg, France 1952 Ph.D. Harvard, Instructor in history Faculty member, Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Austria 1953 Aug 8 Married Nancy Ethel Alexander (Children: J. Alexander, b. 1954; Promise, b. 1955; Constance, b. 1957; Sydney, b. 1960) 1954 Assistant Professor of Modern Church History and American History, Yale University Fellow, Branford College, Yale The Harvard Divinity School published (co-author) 1957 Lutheran World Federation lecturer in various countries of Europe 1960 Associate Professor, Yale 1961 The Shaping of American Religion published (co-author) 1962 Spring Visiting Professor, Princeton University The American Protestant Encounter with World Religions (Brewer Lectures, Beloit College) published 1964 Full Professor, Yale 1964 1965 Research in Paris, France 1965 Calvinism and the Political Order published (co-author) 1967 1971 Chair, American Studies Program, Yale 1967 Rauschenbusch Lecturer, Colgate Rochester Divinity School 1967 Theology in America published 1970 1971 Research in Munich, Germany 1972 Summer Visiting Professor, Kyoto Summer Seminar in American Studies, Japan 1972 A Religious History of the American People published 1972 1973 Director of Graduate Studies, Religious Studies Department, Yale 1973 National Book Award Recipient 1973 Summer Scholar-in-Resident, Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, Colorado Chair, Consulting Committee on the National Bicentenary of the Lutheran Church in America 1973 1974 Chair, American Studies Program, Yale 1974 Brotherhood Award of the National Council of Christians and Jews 1975 Visiting Lecturer at universities and professional conferences in Australia and New Zealand 1975 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Upsala College, New Jersey 1975 President, American Society of Church History 1976 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Susquehanna University 1976 Religious Dilemmas of Nationhood published (editor) 1978 Rockefeller Fellowship for research on Romanticism 1979 Samuel Knight Professor of American History and Modern Religious History, Yale 1979 The Christian Century Award for the Decade's Most Outstanding Book on Religion 1984 Died in New Haven, Connecticut Member, Editorial Board of the Complete Works of Jonathan Edwards Member, Board of Trustees of Gustavus Adolphus Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1978 Elected Corresponding Member, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1977

From the guide to the Sydney Ahlstrom Papers, 1931-1988, (Yale University Divinity School Library)
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