Ronald L. Troxel

In 1991, he began teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a lecturer. He became an Associate Professor (with tenure) in 2011, and was promoted to full professor in 2014. From January, 2010 through May, 2014 he served as chair of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies. From 2002 until 2007 he served as advisor for the nascent Religious Studies Program. After the program became an established major, he served as its Coordinator of Undergraduate Education from 2008 until 2010. In 2004 he was awarded the Chancellor’s Hilldale Award for Excellence in Teaching and, in 2009, received the Honored Instructor Award, from University Housing and the Chadbourne Residential College, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Honored Instructor Award, from the Panhellenic Association, the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He regularly presented research in sessions of the Society of Biblical Literature, both in the United States annual meetings and European meetings. Upon his retirement in May 2016, he became Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible in the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

From May 27, 1973, Troxel holds a B.A. from Bethel University (Minnesota). On May 28, 1977, Troxel earned a M.Div., from Bethel Theological Seminary, St. Paul, MN. On December 22, 1985, he earned a M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison. On August 27, 1989, Troxel successfully defended his dissertation, earning a Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The title of his doctoral dissertation was Eschatology in the Septuagint of Isaiah.

Ronald Lewis Troxel (April 2, 1951) is a retired professor emeritus and Chair of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.