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History Faculty

Department of History
Gordon College
Wenham, MA 01984
USA

History Overview

Jennifer Hevelone-Harper

Jennifer Hevelone-Harper
Department Chair
Associate Professor
History

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B.A. Gordon College
M.A. University of Chicago
M.A., Ph.D. Princeton University

Teaching Fields:
Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Islam, Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Research Fields:
Christian Spirituality in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Byzantine Gaza and Palestine, Development of Christian Thought

Selected Publications:
Disciples of the Desert: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in the Sixth-Century. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

"Ecclesiastics and Ascetics: Finding Spiritual Authority in Fifth and Sixth-Century Palestine." Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 9.1 (2006). 

"Anchorite and Abbot: Cooperative Spiritual Authority in late Antique Gaza," in The Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies. Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming.

"The Three Heirs of Rome," in A History of World Civilizations from a Christian Perspective, edited by Jerry Pattengale. St. Marion, Indiana: Triangle Publishing, forthcoming.


Stephen Alter

Stephen G. Alter
Associate Professor
History

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B.M. Southern Methodist University
M.A. Rice University
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Teaching Fields:
U.S. History, American Intellectual History, U.S. Foreign Relations, Postwar American Politics, Modern Britain

Research Fields:
19th Century American Social Thought, the Darwinian Revolution, Critical Bible Scholarship in America

Selected Publications:
William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)

Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1999)

"Separated at Birth: The Interlinked Origins of Darwin's Unconscious Selection Concept and the Application of Sexual Selection to Race," in Journal of the History of Biology, 40 (Summer 2007): 231-258.

"Race, Language, and Mental Evolution in Darwin's Descent of Man," in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43:3 (Summer 2007): 239-255.


K. David Goss

K. David Goss
Assistant Professor
History

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B.A. Gordon College
M.A. Tufts University
Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University

Teaching Fields:
Museum Studies; Public History; Early American Maritime and Intellectual 

Research Fields:
Museum Studies; New England Puritanism; American Revolution; New England Maritime 

Selected Publications:
"Heritage Plaza East: Salem's Experiment in Urban Renewal", Essex Institute Historical Collections, October, 1983 

Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the French and Indian Wars: 1755-1756 , Society of Colonial Wars and New England Historic and Genealogic Society, 1985. 

Salem: Maritime Salem in the Age of Sail, U. S. National Park Service, 1987. (AAM Publication Award) 

Treasures of a Seaport Town, Beverly Historical Society and Museum, 1998. 

Salem: Cornerstones of a Historic City, Commonwealth Editions, 1999.  

Salem Witchcraft Trials, New York, Greenwood Press, forthcoming   


Tal Howard

     Thomas A. Howard  
Associate Professor  
History
Director, Jerusalem & Athens Forum

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B.A. University of Alabama
M.A., Ph.D. University of Virginia

Teaching Fields:
Modern European History, Modern Church History, Honors Program 

Research Fields:
Modern German Theology and Thought, History of Higher Education, Religion and Modernity, Transatlantic Intellectual Relations

Selected Publications:
Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Religion and the Rise of Historicism (Cambridge University Press, 2000). 

"American Religion and European Anti-Americanism," Hedgehog Review 8 (2006): 116-126

"Jacob Burckhardt, Religion, and the Historiography of Crisis and Transition,"  Journal of the History of Ideas 60 (January 1999): 149-164

"On Prudence and Historical Inquiry,"  Fides et Historia 37/38 (2006): 23-34.

Other Activities:

Director of "Critical Loyalty: Christian Vocation at Gordon College," a project supported by the Lilly Endowment

Director of the Jerusalem and Athens Forum, great books honors program

 


Dong Wang

Dong Wang
Executive Director, East-West Institute of International Studies
Professor, History

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B.A., M.A. Shandong University
Ph.D. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Ph.D. University of Kansas

Teaching Fields:
Art, Religion and International Relations, China, Japan, and Modern World History 

Research Fields:
U.S.-China Relations, International Law, Chinese Politics, Nationalism, Intellectual History, Christianity in China, and Management of Higher Education.

Selected Publications:
China's Unequal Treaties: Narrating National History, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Lexington Books), 2005, hardcover; 2008, paperback, pp. 190.  

Managing God's Higher Learning: U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888-1952, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), 2007, pp. 224.

Editor, special theme volume of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, "Christianity in China as an Issue in the History of United States-China Relations," 2008.

She is currently completing the manuscript of a book on United States-China relations from the 18th century to the present. A second ongoing book project is provisionally titled The Longmen Grottoes in a Changing World: Art, Religion, and Representation.

Other Activities:
Research Associate of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University 

Associate Editor of The Journal of American-East Asian Relations


David Wick

David P. Wick
Associate Professor
History 

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B.A. Crown College
M.A., Ph.D. University of Washington

Teaching areas:
Ancient Mediterranean, Classical, Bronze Age history, Archeology, Ancient Cultural, Religious and Military Studies.  

Research Areas:
Ancient Urban Studies, Classical Religious and Social Change. Ancient Technologies and Social Context. Co-director of Gordon's International Seminar in Greece and the Aegean. 

Selected Publications:
"Decoding Ancient History: A Toolkit for the Historian as Detective," co-author with Carol G. Thomas, (Prentice-Hall, 1994, Natural Sciences Book Club Edition, 1996.). 

"An Athenian Alchemy: The Survival of Athens as a Destination of Refuge for Foreigners at the End of the Roman Republic," Proceedings of the Third International Conference on European History (Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2006). Paper also delivered at keynote session of the Conference, Athens, Dec. 2005.


ADJUNCT AND PART TIME FACULTY

Ian Drummond

Ian Drummond
Part-Time Instructor
History

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B.A. George Mason University
M.Div. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
M.A. Candidate, Tufts University

 


Agnes Howard

Agnes Howard
Adjunct Professor
History

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B.A. Cornell University
M.A., Ph.D. University of Virginia


Richard Pierard

Richard V. Pierard
Scholar in Residence and Stephen Phillips Professor of History

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B.A. California State University - Los Angeles
M.A. California State University - Los Angeles
Ph.D. University of Iowa

 


Liesl Smith

Liesl R. Smith
Adjunct Professor
History
Director of Global Education

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B.A. Virginia Tech University
M.A. Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. University of Toronto


David Sparks
Adjunct Professor
History

B.A. Wheaton College
M.Div. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
D.Min. Drew University

Teaching Areas:
Early Church History, Classical Context of Roman Christianity, Modern Greece.

Research Areas:
Political, Social Context of the Apostolic Fathers. Co-Director of Gordon's International Seminar in Greece and the Aegean. Director, Greek Center for Biblical Studies.

Selected Publications:
The Journal of Paul: Devotional Insights into the Message of the Apostle Paul, (Brentwood, 1998).