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Formerly Associate Dean for
Academic Administration, Professor Mark Edwards is now Senior Advisor to the
Dean at Harvard Divinity School .
He has written four books and numerous articles on
Martin Luther and the German Reformation. The most recent book, entitled Printing,
Propaganda, and Martin Luther (University of California Press, 1994;
reprint, Fortress Press, 2005), deals with the West's first “mass media campaign”
and Luther's pivotal role as both subject and object in the struggle for the
hearts and minds of sixteenth-century Christians. Edwards has taught
introductory courses in computer science at Wellesley College and Purdue University ,
and has developed three commercial software programs, including For Comment,
a pioneer “groupware” product that was designated one of the best products of
1987 by PC Magazine.