Ocker, Christopher (Michael) 1958-
OCKER, Christopher (Michael) 1958-
PERSONAL:
Male. Born November 23, 1958, in Queens, NY; son of Ralph Franz and Christa Gertrud (Holder) Ocker; married Varda Koch, August 29, 1987; children: Gabriel, Tanya, Stella. Education: Fuller Theological Seminary, M.Div., 1983; Princeton Theological Seminary, Th.M., 1985, Ph.D., 1991. Religion: Presbyterian.
ADDRESSES:
Office—San Francisco Theological Seminary, 2 Kensington Rd., San Anselmo, CA 94960; Graduate Theological Union, 2400 Ridge Rd., Berkeley, CA 94709; fax: 415-258-1608. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, CA, assistant professor, 1991-95, associate professor, 1995-2001, professor of church history, 2001—. Center for Hermeneutical Studies, associate director, 1991-94; Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, member of core doctoral faculty, 1992—; Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, codirector, 1999—; University of California—Berkeley, affiliated faculty member, 2001—. Institut für Europäische Geschichte, research fellow, 1988-91; Max-Planck Institut für Geschichte, visiting fellow, 1995. San Anselmo Organ Festival, member of board of directors, 1994.
MEMBER:
American Society of Church History, American Academy of Religion, Society for Reformation Research, American Historical Association, Medieval Academy of America.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Scholar, Medieval Academy of America, 1986; grant from Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, University of Würzburg, 1987; Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 1995; young scholars' award, Association of Theological Schools, 1995.
WRITINGS:
(Editor) David Biale, From Intercourse to Discourse: Control of Sexuality in Rabbinic Literature, Center for Hermeneutical Studies (San Anselmo, CA), 1992.
Johannes Klenkok: A Friar's Life, c. 1310-1374, American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, PA), 1993.
Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2002.
Contributor to books, including The Work of Heiko A. Oberman, edited by Thomas A. Brady and James Tracy, E. J. Brill (Leiden, Netherlands), 2002. Contributor to scholarly journals.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Church History, June, 1996, John B. Wickstrom, review of Johannes Klenkok: A Friar's Life, c. 1310-1374, pp. 335-336.
Speculum, April, 1995, William J. Courtenay, review of Johannes Klenkok, pp. 408-409.
Times Literary Supplement, July 26, 2002, Robert E. Lerner, review of Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation, p. 33.
ONLINE
Cambridge University Press Web site,http://books.cambridge.org/ (April 8, 2003).
Christopher Ocker Home Page,http://www.gtu.edu/ (April 8, 2003).*