Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1999
B.A., Brown University, 1991
The cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe, with particular interest in the history of religion, science, and scholarship. Other areas include: the history of secularism and secularization, Jewish-Christian relations, the history of the disciplines, the afterlife of the Protestant Reformation, and the history of reading and print culture.
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, 2007-
Associate Professor, University of Michigan, 2005-2007
Assistant Professor, Indiana University, 2000-2005
2007-9 National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant.
2006 Summer research fellow, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany.
2004 Indiana University President’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Fellowship.
2003 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Indiana University.
2002-3 Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion. Princeton University.
1999-2000 Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellow, UCLA Humanities Consortium.
1998-99 Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship for Religion and Ethics, Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
1997-98 Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship.
1997-98 Mabel Mcleod Lewis Fellowship
1996-97 DAAD Annual Research Fellowship.
The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture (Princeton University Press, 2005). Winner of the 2005 George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association. Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2005.
"Thinking About Idols in Early Modern Europe," special volume introduction for Journal of the History of Ideas 67 (October 2006): 561-69.
"The Altars of the Idols: Religion, Sacrifice, and the Early Modern Polity," Journal of the History of Ideas 67 (October 2006): 648-74.
"Sacred and Profane: Idolatry, Antiquarianism, and the Polemics of Distinction in the Seventeenth Century," Past and Present 192 (August 2006): 37-66.
"The Stamp of Time Elapsed: Anthropology and the Flood in the Seventeenth Century," Sintflut und Gedächtnis, ed. Martin Mulsow and Jan Assmann (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006), 321-336.
"Enlightenment, Religion, and the Enigma of Secularization," American Historical Review 108.4 (October 2003): 1061-1080.
| Semester | Course | Title | Syllabus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2013 | 165A | The Reformations of Christendom | |
| Fall 2013 | 5 | European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present | |
| Fall 2013 | 280B | The Problem of Enlightenment: Intellectual and Cultural Histories | |
| Fall 2012 | 5 | European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present | |
| Fall 2012 | 280B.004 | Heterodoxy, Orthodoxy, and Early Modern Religion |
