Biography
Dr. Kevin den Dulk serves as Associate Provost at »Æ´óÏɸßÊÖÂÛ̳, where he leads efforts to engage adult learners in graduate education, undergraduate degree-completion, and professional studies. Under his leadership, Calvin has rapidly grown graduate programming and enrollment as well as developed a robust platform for non-credit opportunities in workforce development. Den Dulk has also collaborated across the university and with many community partners to strengthen and launch programs for adult undergraduate learning, including the Calvin Prison Initiative, Wayfinder, and new bachelor’s degrees in leadership and human services. He has also been a key member of the teams that established the Schools of Health and Business.
An award-winning teacher, Dr. den Dulk served until 2020 as the Paul B. Henry Chair and Executive Director of Calvin’s Henry Institute. His scholarly work focuses on how educational and religious institutions within civil society foster democratic citizenship. He has co-authored or co-edited several books, including The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Six Democracies, Religion and Politics in America, The Church and Religious Persecution, and Pews, Prayers, and Participation.
Education
A native Californian, Kevin den Dulk earned his bachelor of arts degree in philosophy at Calvin College in 1992. After a brief stint in a corporate law firm, he completed his M.A. in political science at the University of Georgia (1995) and his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (2001). In 2001, he took a position in the Department of Political Science at Grand Valley State University, and later added a joint appointment as Honors Faculty-in-Residence. He returned to Calvin as the Spoelhof Teacher-Scholar-in-Residence during the 2011-2012 academic year. From 2012-2019, he served as the Executive Director of the and held the Paul B. Henry Chair in Political Science. In 2020, he began his current role at »Æ´óÏɸßÊÖÂÛ̳, serving as Associate Provost.
Academic Interests
Religion and politics cross-nationally; religious freedom; American politics and policy; public law and courts; political theory
Publications
Research and Scholarship
The Politics of Clean Water
<p><strong>Project Outcome</strong>:</p>
<p>The goals of the project are (1) to apply Christian understandings of distributive justice to the problem of water, and (2) to explore ways that political development can help sustain efforts to get clean water into impoverished regions.</p>
<p>I imagine several outcomes: (1) a solid preparation for the faculty mentor's sabbatical project (2016-17) on water policy; (2) at least one or two occasional pieces for Christian think tanks on water policy, which the student will co-author; (3) the likelihood of faculty-student co-presentation in a panel at the 2017 Henry Symposium that explores Christian approaches to the politics of water; (4) first-steps to preparing a team-taught course that focuses on how the politics of a region shapes the development of water systems, which will benefit the college as a whole; and (5) possibly a seminar on Christianity, environmental justice, and approaches to water in the summer of 2017 or 2018. The Henry Symposium panel and the course would be opportunities for Calvin colleagues and students to learn more about water policy and its connections to other work on development and the sustainability.</p>
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