Dr. Peter Iver Kaufman
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Profile
Peter Iver Kaufman studies the political cultures of late antiquity, medieval, and early modern Europe and North Africa. He has written 12 books, the latest of which, Agamben, Donatism, Pelagianism, and the Missing Links, was published in 2021. He is the author of more than 60 articles on authority, religious conflict, and literary history, which have appeared in, among other journals, Leadership and the Humanities, Journal of Late Antiquity, Harvard Theological Review, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, and Journal of the American Academy of Religion. He has also edited six books, ranging from studies of charisma to others on leadership and Elizabethan culture.
Kaufman teaches introductory leadership studies courses, such as Leadership and the Humanities and Justice and Civil Society, as well as advanced courses on political, cultural, and religious leaders in late antiquity and early modern Europe.
He is professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught in the departments of history and religious studies and where, in 2003, he founded the Scholars Latino Initiative (SLI-NC). SLI now has additional chapters in Harrisonburg, Winchester, and Richmond, Virginia.
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Awards
Distinguished Scholarship Award, University of Richmond, 2023
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Awards
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Selected Publications
Books
On Agamben, Donatism, Pelagianism, and the Missing Links, Bloomsbury, 2021.
On Agamben, Arendt, Christianity, and the Dark Arts of Civilization, Bloomsbury, 2020.
Augustine's Leaders, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2017.
Charisma, Medieval and Modern, Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Religions, 2014.
Religion Around Shakespeare, Penn State University Press, 2013.
Leadership and Elizabethan Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Incorrectly Political: Augustine and Thomas More, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
Thinking of the Laity in Late Tudor England, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.
Prayer, Despair, Drama: Elizabethan Introspection, University of Illinois Press, 1996.
Church, Book, and Bishop: Conflict and Authority in Early Latin Christendom, HarperCollins Westview, 1996.
Redeeming Politics, Princeton University Press, 1990.
The Polytyque Churche: Religion and Early Tudor Political Culture, 1485-1516, Mercer and Peeters (Leuven), 1986.
Journal Articles"What Might Agamben Learn from Augustine." New Blackfriars (2024): 1-17.
"Killjoy? Augustine on Pageantry," Religions 15(3) (2024): 1 -11
"Hopefully, Augustine," Augustinian Studies 53(1) (2022): 3-27.
“Augustine’s Punishments,” Harvard Theological Review 109(4) (2016): 550-566.
"Deposito Diademate: Augustine’s Emperors," Religions 6 (2015): 317-327.
"Humility, civility, and vitality: Papal leadership at the turn of the seventh century," Leadership 8 (2012): 245-256.
"Hamlet's Religions," Religions 2 (2011): 427-448.
"Christian Realism and Augustinian (?) Liberalism," Journal of Religious Ethics 38 (2010): 699-724.
"Augustine and Corruption,” History of Political Thought (2009): 46-59.
"Donatism Revisited; Moderates and Militants in Late Antique North Africa," Journal of Late Antiquity 1 (2009): 131-142.
Book Chapters"Learning about Leadership from Coriolanus and Coriolanus," William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021), 51-65.
"Political Realism and Nationalism: Can Nationalism Be 'Liberalised'?" The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), 494-506.
“Stepping out of Constantine’s Shadow,” Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine (Fordham University Press, 2017), 202-218.
"Clerical Leadership in Late Antiquity," Frontiers in Spiritual Leadership: Discovering the Better Angels of Our Nature (2016), 35-49.
"Augustine's Dystopia," Cambridge Companion to "The City of God" (2014), 55-73.
“Authenticity, Asceticism, and the Constant ‘Inconstancie’ of Elizabethan Character,” Performance and Authenticity in the Arts: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts (2010).
"The 'confessing animal' on stage: Authenticity, asceticism, and the constant 'inconstancie' of Elizabethan character," Performance and Authenticity in the Arts (2010): 49-65.
“The Protestant Opposition or Elizabethan Religious Reform,” Blackwell Companion to Tudor Britain (2009).
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