Dwight D. Brautigam

Professor of History
Chair, Department of History
Huntington University
Huntington, IN 46750
Tel. (260) 359-4223
E-mail: dbrautigam@huntington.edu
Fax: (260) 359-4144

Education:

Ph. D. in history, May 1987, University of Rochester
M. A. in history, August 1982, University of Kentucky
B. A. in history, May 1979, Houghton College

Awards and Grants:

University of Kentucky Nonservice Academic Fellowship, 1980-81
University of Rochester Rush Rhees Fellow, 1982-85
University of Rochester Department of History Willson Coates Award to outstanding graduate student in British history, 1983
University of Rochester Department of History Dissertation Fellow, 1985-86
Participant, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, "The Theory and Practice of Cultural History: Shakespeare," Summer 1990
Huntington College Faculty Lecturer, 1990-91 academic year.
Huntington College Distinctive Professor of the Year, 1993 (student-selected)

Participant, Calvin College Faculty Summer Seminars in Christian Scholarship, "Puritanism and Its Discontents," Summer 1997
Huntington College Distinctive Professor of the Year, 1999 (student-selected)

Participant, Summer 2003 National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, “Cultural Stress from Reformation to Revolution”, held at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC

Publications:

Court, Country, and Culture: Essays on Early Modern British History in Honor of Perez Zagorin , co-editor with Bonnelyn Y. Kunze. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1992. Also contributed article "The Court and The CountryRevisited" (pp. 55-64) to that volume and co-wrote the introduction.
“Prelates and Politics: Uses of ‘Puritan’, 1625-1640” in Puritanism and Its Discontents, ed. Laura Knoppers. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003.

Papers presented and related activities:

"Conflict and Consequences: The 1626 Parliament" presented at the Midwest Conference on British Studies, Miami University, October 1988, and the Ohio Academy of History, Ohio State University, April 1989.
"Court and Country Revisited" presented at "British History in the Tudor and Stuart Periods", a conference honoring Prof. Perez Zagorin, held at the University of Rochester, November 1989.
"Puritans and Arminians: Ideology and the Roots of the English Revolution" presented at the Conference on Faith and History biennial meeting, Cedarville College, November 1990.
"Puritans and the English Revolution: A Case Study in Religion and Politics" presented as the Huntington College Faculty Lecture, April 1991.
"A review of William Kilpatrick's Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong: Moral Illiteracy and the Case for Character Education," presented to the Huntington College Faculty Forum, October 27, 1993
"JFK's Assassination: What Has It Meant to America?" guest speaker presentation to the Huntington Exchange Club, November 22, 1993

"Public Life and Private Morals? The Relationship?" panel remarks at a symposium for high school students sponsored by U. S. Representative David McIntosh, Anderson, IN, November 1998
"Prelates and Politics: Uses of 'Puritan', 1625-1640" presented at followup conference to Calvin College Summer Seminars on Christian Scholarship, May 1998, and at the American Society of Church History, Point Loma Nazarene University, April 1999
Chair and moderator, panel discussion on "Christian Faith and Teaching History: Tools and Communities" at the 2002 Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Huntington College, Huntington, IN, October 2002
Participant, respondent panel for Conference on Faith and History session on Christian History at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2004

Professional Activities:

Panelist, NEH Younger Scholar Award Program, World History division, 1990, 1991, 1992.
Memberships in the North American Conference on British Studies, the Conference on Faith and History, The Historical Society and The American Historical Association.
Participant, Council of Christian College and Universities Disciplinary Faculty Development Workshops in History, July 23-28, 2001
Local Arrangements Chair, Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History and Student Research Conference, October 9-12, 2002 (over 240 attendees)
Treasurer and office administrator, Conference on Faith and History.
Co-editor: Conference on Faith and History newsletter.

Additional activities:

Adult Sunday School Teacher, College Park United Brethren Church, Huntington, IN
Volunteer, Huntington County Upward Sports Ministry

Personal Interests:

Exercise, reading mysteries, sports (especially Huntington University basketball, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pittsburgh Pirates), Macintosh computers, and the Harry Potter book series.

If you have any questions or comments about this page, please e-mail me at dbrautigam@huntington.edu

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