CHARLES W. HEDRICK

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Distinguished Professor, Southwest Missouri State University, 2001-2004
• Professor of Religious Studies and Distinguished Scholar, Southwest Missouri State University, 1996-2000
• Professor of Religious Studies and Distinguished Scholar, Southwest Missouri State University, 1991-1996
• Professor of Religious Studies, Southwest Missouri State University, l988-1991
• Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Southwest Missouri State University, l983-l988
• Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Southwest Missouri State University, l980-l983
• Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, l978-l980
• Lecturer in Religion, Claremont Graduate School, l977-l978.
• Research Associate, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, l97l-l976
• Office Manager, Coptic Project, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, l969-l973
• Research Assistant, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, l969

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Chaplain (Colonel) U.S. Army Reserve (Retired 1994), highest award: the Legion of Merit
• Individual Mobilization Augmentee, to the U.S. Army, Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Pentagon, Washington, D.C., 1988-1993
• Chaplain (Colonel) U.S. Army, Active Duty for Desert Shield/Storm, January-July 1991
• Interim Minister, Oakwood Heights Community Church, Staten Island, New York, 1980
• Deputy Probation Officer, Los Angeles County, 1965-1978
• Pastor, First Baptist Church, Needles, California, 1962-1965
• Chemist, Colgate Palmolive Co., Berkeley, California, 1958-1962
• Pastor, First Baptist Church, San Geronimo, California, 1961
• Pastor, Mayersville Baptist Church, Mayersville, Mississippi, 1956-1958

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Southwest Missouri State University, International Education Committee Award for Travel, $1000.00, 2002
• Southwest Missouri State University, University Research Award, $2,400.00, 2000
• Southwest Missouri State University, University Research Award, $2000.00, 1998
• John G. Gammie Distinguished Scholar Award, awarded by the Southwest commission on Religious Studies, $2000.00, 1998
• Southwest Missouri State University, Faculty Research Grant. $1,837.00 for "Editing Coptic Text P. Berol. 22220," 1996.
• Southwest Missouri State University, Curriculum Development. $4,600.00 for developing a Capstone Course on "Religion and the State." Team Project with Julie Johnson, 1996
• Southwest Missouri State University, "Funding for Results." College Teaching, A project to develop critical thinking in first year college students ($2624.00 for graduate assistants), 1995
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1994
• Southwest Missouri State University, Summer Faculty Fellowship Award, Summer 1991
• National President, National Association Baptist Professors of Religion, 1988-1989
• National Vice President, National Association Baptist Professors of Religion, l987-l988
• Southwest Missouri State University, Foundation Excellence in Research Award, l988
• Southwest Missouri State University, Faculty Research Grant l985/86 ($4594.00 for editing Nag Hammadi Codex VIII).
• Southwest Missouri State University, Faculty Research Grants, l983 (for editing Nag Hammadi Codices XI, XII, XIII)
• Southwest Missouri State University, Faculty Research Grant, l982 (for technical survey of the Eastern Desert of Upper Egypt)
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Conference Grant, l982 (with Robert Hodgson, Jr. conference grant $10,000.00 on the Nag Hammadi Codices)
• Southwest Missouri State University, Faculty Research Grant, l980-8l
• Wagner College Faculty Research Grant, l980
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, l979
• American School of Oriental Research Grant, l977
• Smithsonian Institute Grant, l974-l975 (participant; not the principal)
• Claremont Graduate School Grant, l972
• American Philosophical Society Grant, l97l (participant; not the principal)
• Mills Fellowship, Claremont Graduate School, l97l-l972, l972-l973
• California State Graduate Fellowship, l969-l970
• Mississippi College Nelson Medal for Public Speaking, 1958
• Stanley A. Aubry Ministerial Fellowship Award, 1958
• President of Eta Sigma Phi (Mississippi College Chapter) 1958
• American Spirit Honor Medal, 1954 (U.S. Army)

BOARDS

Society of Biblical Literature Council, At Large Representative, 1995-1997.

Board of Directors, Polebridge Press (Beginning 1988).

Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, Brill Press (Beginning 1993).

Perspectives in Religious Studies Editorial Board (Term ending February l99l).

CONSULTANT

Visual Bible International, Toronto, Canada, 2002 to the present.

Multi-Media Project, American Bible Society, 1996-2001.

Endowment for Biblical Research, New Testament Language Project (Cambridge, MA), 1995-1998.
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