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Professor Crawford Gribben

MA (Dublin, j.o.) PhD (Strathclyde) FRHistS

Professor of Early Modern British History

Institute Fellow, Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities (S2)

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Email: c.gribben@qub.ac.uk
Office: 13UQ/104

 

Before taking up my current position at Queen's in January 2013, I held posts in early modern literature and history in the University of Manchester and Trinity College Dublin. I was elected a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2012-13 I will be a Fellow of the Institute for Collaborative Humanities in Queen’s University Belfast, working with John Thompson and Keith Lilley to establish a world-class centre of excellence for inter-disciplinary research in the arts and humanities.

Research:

I am a cultural and literary historian whose work concentrates on the development and dissemination of religious ideas, especially in terms of apocalyptic and millennial thought, in the print cultures of Puritanism and evangelicalism. My current projects in the earlier period include writing John Owen and English Puritanism (under contract to Oxford University Press, 2014) and editing Dublin: Renaissance City of Literature (with Kathleen Miller). My current projects in the later period include writing Survival and resistance in evangelical America (with Scott Spurlock). I serve as co-editor of a series of monographs and edited collections entitled 'Christianities in the trans-Atlantic world, 1550-1800' (Palgrave Macmillan), and am a general editor of a major new multi-volume and multi-authored project entitled Calvin and Global Calvinism 1509-2009. I direct the 'Radical Religion in the trans-Atlantic world, 1500-1800' project (funded by the Irish Research Council, 2012-13).

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PhDs and Postdocs:

I have mentored several postdoctoral research fellows whose projects have included The Minutes of the Antrim Ministers, 1654-8 (Four Courts [2012], funded by the Ulster Scots Agency, 2008), 'Christian Zionism and English identity' (funded by IRCHSS, 2011-13), and 'Memorialising the killing times: History, religion and nation in pre-Enlightenment Scotland' (funded by IRCHSS, 2011-14). I am interested in hearing from anyone who is interested in pursuing postdoctoral or PhD research on the literary cultures of Puritanism and evangelicalism in an inter-disciplinary context.