EDUCATION

Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1991

M.A. University of Chicago, 1986

Th.M. Dallas Theological Seminary, 1984

B.A. Grace University, 1979

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1996-Present, Associate Professor, Central Michigan University

1993-1996, Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University

1992-1993, Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University

1991-1992, Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

American history, colonial and revolutionary America, teaching history

COURSES TAUGHT

HST 111: United States History to 1865

HST 301: The Craft of History

HST 303: Era of the American Revolution

HST 397: Special Topics in History--Saints and Sinners: Religion and Society in Colonial British America

HST 400: Teaching History in the Secondary Schools

HST 496: Research Seminar

HST 511: Colonial British America

HST 597: Special Topics in History--Benjamin Franklin's World

HST 602: Colloquium in United States History to 1865

HST 711: Seminar in Colonial and Revolutionary American History

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

"Structuring Provincial Imagination:  The Rhetoric and Experience of Social Change in Eighteenth-Century New England," American Historical Review, 103 (December, 1998):  1411-39.

"Lifestyles, Social Trends, and Fashion" in American Eras, 1600-1754:  The Colonial Era, ed. Jessica Kross (Detroit:  Gale Publishing Company, 1997).

Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994).

"Fundamentalism," in Dictionary of American History Supplement (Lakeville, CT: American Reference Publishing Company, 1996).

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

"Identifying Important People and Events in History" presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Michigan Council for History Education, Wayne, Michigan, October 17, 2000.

"Conversion and Community in Crisis:  Assurance, Community, and Individualism in the Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638," presented at "Conference on Puritanism and Its Discontents," Grand Rapids, MI, May 30, 1998.

"American History on the World Wide Web:  Using the Library of Congress's American Memory Collections to Teach Michigan Standards-Based U.S. History," presented at the Michigan Council for the Social Studies Annual State Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, February 26, 1998.

Comment on session, "Boundary Crossings:  Toward a History of the Religious Book" at the Annual Convention of the American Historical Association, Seattle, WA, January 11, 1998.

"Technology, Media, the World-Wide Web and the Standards," and "Reframing the College Curricula for History Teacher Education," presented at Central Michigan University Department of History Conference on "Culture Wars: The Politics of History and the National History Standards," Mt. Pleasant, MI, March 21, 1996.

"Identity and Community: The Case of Samson Occom, Christian Indian Preacher," presented at the Conference of the Institute of Early American History and Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, June 4, 1995.

WORK IN PROGRESS

"Evangelical Conversion, the Self, and Community, 1630-1830" an exploration of evangelical conversion's role in the structural transformation of the transatlantic world of commerce and culture in the early modern period.

Colonial America in the Atlantic World, a survey of British American history to 1763, co-written with T.H. Breen.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Book Review Editor and Co-editor, H-AmRel:  American Religious History, 19945-present
Executive Board Member, Michigan Council for History Education, 1996-present