Deputy Chair, HistoryProfessor, HistoryLander College for Men
Associate Professor, HistoryLander College for Women
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In addition to numerous articles and reviews, Dr. Ninness is the author of Between Opposition and Collaboration: Nobles, Bishops, and the German Reformations in the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg (Brill, 2011) and German Imperial Knights: Noble Misfits between Princely Authority and the Crown, 1479-1648 (Routledge, 2020). His research and teaching focus on European and American history specializing in the Reformation, Central Europe, the Atlantic world, and imperial knights.
Education
- BA, University of South Carolina
- MA, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Publications
- Ninness, R. J. (2020). German Imperial Knights: Noble Misfits Between Princely Authority and the Crown, 1479–1648. Retrieved from https://touroscholar.touro.edu/lcm_pubs/36
- Ninness, R. J. (2017). [Review of the book The origins of the Thirty Years War and the revolt in Bohemia, 1618, by G. Mortimer]. German History, 35(1), 130-132.
- Ninness, R. J. (2016). Chasing Zeeden's ghost: The past and future interpretations of the formation of confessions in North America. In M. Gerstmeier & A. Schindling (Eds.), Ernst Walter Zeeden (1916-2011) als Historiker der Reformation, Konfessionsbildung und "Deutschen Kultur": Relektüren eines geschichtswissenschaftlichen Vordenkers [Ernst Walter Zeeden (1916-2011) as a historian of the Reformation, confessional formation and "German culture": The revision of a historical-scientific predecessor]. Münster, Germany: Aschendorff Verlag.
- Ninness, R. J. (2014). Im konfessionellen Niemandsland – Neue Forschungsansätze zur Geschichte der Reichsritterschaft zwischen Reformation und Dreißigjährigem Krieg. Das Vermächtnis von Volker Press [In confessional nowhere - New research projects on the history of Reichsritterschaft between the Reformation and the Thirty Years War. The legacy of Volker Press]. Historisches Jahrbuch [Historical Yearbook], 134, 142-164.
