Society and Religion in Early Modern England
The Claremont Graduate School announces a
five-week summer Institute for College and
University Teachers, to be held at Claremont,
California, from July 15 through August 16,
1996. The Institute is sponsored by the
Humanities Center at Claremont Graduate
School and supported by a major grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities, an
independent agency. Its purpose is to examine
texts and topics in the social, cultural, and
religious history of early modern England
(especially the period 1550-1660) and to
explore fresh ways to present this material
in teaching.
Our focus is the interplay between society,
politics, religion, literature, ideas and
popular culture in the long aftermath of the
Reformation. We aim towards a deeper
understanding of debate on such issues as the
relationship of heaven and earth, sacred and
secular, government and people, in a time of
social and religious upheaval. Weekly themes
will include the role of the church in
English life and the effects of changing
policy; Godliness, Puritanism and popular
religion in Elizabethan and Stuart England;
the challenges of ceremonialism, Arminianism
and Laudianism; women and religion; and the
crisis of religious wars and revolution. Two
sessions of the Institute will be held at the
nearby Huntington Library. The Claremont
Graduate School, one of the Claremont
Colleges, is thirty-five miles east of Los
Angeles at the base of the San Gabriel
Mountains, within easy reach of the major
attractions of southern California.
Director
David Cressy, California State University,
Long Beach and The Claremont Graduate School,
author of "Bonfires and Bells: National
Memory and the Protestant Calendar in
Elizabethan and Stuart England."
Assistant Director
Lori Anne Ferrell, School of Theology at
Claremont and Claremont Graduate School.
Visiting Faculty
Patrick Collinson, Regius Professor of Modern
History, Cambridge University, author of "The
Birthpangs of Protestant England."
Patricia Crawford, University of Western
Australia, author of "Women and Religion in
England, 1500-1720."
Christopher Haigh, Oxford University, author
of "The English Reformation Revised."
John Morrill, Cambridge University, author of
"The Nature of the English Revolution."
Kevin Sharpe, University of Southampton,
author of "The Personal Rule of Charles I."
Visiting Lecturers
Mark Kishlansky, Harvard University, author
of "Seventeenth Century Britain"
Peter Lake, Princeton University, author of
"Anglicans and Puritans ?"
Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University, author of
"Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in
Seventeenth Century England"
Leah Marcus, University of Texas, author of "
Puzzling Shakespeare: Local Reading and its
Discontents."
Debora Shuger, University of California, Los
Angeles, author of " Habits of Thought in the
English Renaissance."
Applications are invited from full-time
college and university faculty, at all levels
of their careers. Twenty four participants
will be selected. Teachers of British
history, Renaissance literature, church
history, and colonial American studies are
especially encouraged to apply. In
accordance with guidelines of the National
Endowment for the Humanities, participation
in the Institute is limited to full-time
faculty teaching in the United States.
American citizens teaching in foreign
institutions are not eligible, but foreign
citizens who have taught in the United States
for a minimum of three years are eligible.
Application deadline is March 1, 1996.
Successful applicants will receive a stipend
of $1,250 plus an allowance toward room and
board and travel costs.
A completed application will include a
curriculum vitae, a statement of purpose,
and letters of recommendation from an
academic dean supporting participation and
from someone familiar with the applicant's
teaching and research. Application materials
are available from:
David Cressy, NEH Institute
Humanities Center, The Claremont Graduate
School
Claremont, California 91711-6192
phone: (909) 621 8612; fax: (909) 627 1221
email: humcen@cgs.edu
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