| 1 | Name: | Dr. Martin E. Marty | |
| Institution: | University of Chicago | ||
| Year Elected: | 1994 | ||
| Class: | 4. Humanities | ||
| Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1928 | ||
Martin E. Marty, born in Nebraska in 1928, holds two degrees in theology and a Ph.D. in American intellectual and religious history. He served ten years as a Lutheran parish minister and thirty-five years as a professor in the Divinity School, the (Humanities) Committee on the History of Culture, and the History Department from 1963-98. His specialty is American religious history, particularly in the national founding period, the late 18th century, and the 20th century, about which he wrote the three-volume Modern American Religion. Since 1998 he has also specialized in comparative studies of militant religious movements, fundamentalism and ethno-nationalisms, and he directed the Fundamentalism projects for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a project that resulted in a five-volume publication by the University of Chicago Press. Alongside his scholarly work, Dr. Marty has also been a journalist, identified since 1956 with the ecumenical The Christian Century and many other publications. He was also co-editor of Church History (1963-98), the journal of the American Society of Church History, of which he has been president. He was also president of the American Catholic Historical Association and the American Academy of Religion. He is the author of over fifty books, one of which, Righteous Empire, won the National Book Award. An elected member of the American Academy of Religion, he is also an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and over seventy honorary doctoral degrees. In 2017 he was honored by the Newberry Library with their Newberry Library Award. He lives in Riverside, IL with his wife, musician Harriet Marty, and the two enjoy nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren. | |||