Dr. Peter I. Kaufman taught for 29 years and was a professor of history and of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining the Jepson faculty in 2008. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, Dr. Kaufman specializes in medieval and early modern studies. His research interests include patristic, medieval, and reformation studies.
He is the author of seven books. His work includes Incorrectly Political: Augustine and Thomas More; Church, Book and Bishop: Conflict and Authority in Early Latin Christianity; Prayer, Despair and Drama; and Redeeming Politics: From Constantine to Cromwell. His articles have appeared in a number of scholarly journals throughout the world, including Textum Historiae (Russia), Journal of Late Antiquity, Moreana (France), History of Political Thought (UK), the Journal of Religious Ethics, and in the Cambridge Critical Guide to the City of God and the Routledge companion volume, The Elizabethan World. He is the current editor-in-chief of the journal Religions.
Much of Dr. Kaufman's work has focused on issues of social justice and immigration policy. He was the founder and director of the Scholars Latino Initative at UNC.
"Donatism Revisited: Moderates and Militants in Late Antique North Africa," Journal of Late Antiquity (2009): 131-42.
"Augustine and Corruption,” History of Political Thought (2009): 46-59.
"Why Thomas More Agreed to become Chancellor," Moreana (2008), 171-92; printed as well in Russian journal Textum Historiae (2008), 196-209.
"English Calvinism and the Crowd: Coriolanus and the History of Religious Reform," Church History (2006), 314-42.
"Patience and Politics: Augustine and the Crisis at Calama, 408," Vigiliae Christianae (2003): 22-35.
"Macedonius and the Courts,” Augustinian Studies (2003): 59-74.
"Diehard Homoians and the Election of Ambrose," Journal of Early Christian Studies (1997): 421-40.