Dr. William Van Arragon

Assistant Professor of History
Office: A232
Phone: 780-465-3500 ext. 8074
Email: william.vanarragon@kingsu.ca

Education

Indiana University (M.A. 1997, PhD 2005)

Calvin College (B.A. 1992)

Research Interests

I study the colonial history of North America, especially the religious history and culture of the New England Puritans. I am working on a book entitled "Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory," to be published by Indiana University Press. 


Recent Publications

 “The Glorious Translation of an American Elijah: Mourning Cotton Mather in 1728,” in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana: Historical and Intellectual Contexts in Transatlantic Perspective (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010)

 “Becoming Congregationalist: Historical Memory, Denominational Identity, and the Founding of the Congregational Library.”  Bulletin of the Congregational Library 5: 3 (Winter 2009), pp. 4-13.

 “People of Hope, People of Memory: Theologies of Memory and the Christian Historian,” Fides et Historia 37:2 (Summer 2005); 38:1 (Spring 2006), 41-49.

Classes I Teach

HIST 202 - Western Civilization: European History from the Classical Age to 1648
HIST 204 - The West and the World, 1500-Present
HIST 309 - Early Modern Europe, 1348 - 1715
HIST 324 - Global Christianity Since 1500
HIST 351 - The United States, 1607-1877
HIST 352 - The United States, 1877-Present
HIST 353 - Political History of the United States, 1776-present (also listed as Political Science 353)
HIST 372 - Historiography And Theory
HIST 399 - Special Topics in History: War and Peace
HIST 497/498 - Research Project

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