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Professor Galchutt: Scholar of the Lutheran Church and Race Relations
Dr. Kathryn Galchutt, Associate Professor of History at Concordia-New York, has earned recognition as a distinguished scholar of the Lutheran Church and race relations. She is noted for her book, The Career of Andrew Schulze, 1924-1968: Lutherans and Race in the Civil Rights Era. Her recent research has focused on the history of Lutheran race relations in New York City and how Lutheran congregations responded to neighborhood change. Past holder of the Duda Chair in Religion, Dr. Galchutt has presented and published on historic Lutheran communities in Milwaukee, Chicago, Harlem, and Brooklyn. Her most recent lecture was delivered at Valparaiso University during its week-long Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration. Her presentation, “Andrew Schulze and the ‘Post-Racial’ Church,” examined what Dr. King and Rev. Schulze would have to say to Christians today about the development of a “post-racial” church and society in light of debates and discussions that followed the election of President Barack Obama. A recent work, “Lutherans and Race: In the Vanguard or behind the Times?” has been published in the Lutheran Education Journal.
Dr. Galchutt received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Marquette University, where her studies focused on the history of religion and race in America. Her broad range of historical interests contributed to her selection as a participant in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “Rethinking America in a Global Age”, hosted at the Library of Congress in the summer of 2005.
Chair of the Social Sciences Program, Dr. Galchutt also teaches a number of survey courses as well as specialized courses on the history of the Civil Rights Movement and Religion in America. She is a member of the Organization of American Historians, the American Society of Church History, the Lutheran Historical Conference, and the Concordia Historical Institute. She currently serves on the board of the Lutheran Historical Conference.
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