Past Lectures:

McGregor Student Research Presentations [Sept. 26, 2007]
Ashley Hutchinson: "The Crisis in American Religion, Pre-Civil War"
Austin Hakes: "Warriors for Christ: Gender, Militarism, and American Evangelicalism"

Calvin College History Dept. Honors Student-Senior Thesis Presentations[May 2, 2007]
Jon Bratt - "Racial Ango-Saxonism, the United States, and the Boer War"
Jenna Hunt - "Women's Religiosity in Late- and Post-Soviet Russia"
Joshua Dekker - American Discourse on the Church in China Today [McGregor Fellow]

Calvin College History Dept. Honors Student-Senior Thesis Presentations [April 25, 2007]
Elizabeth Osinga - Egyptian influence on Nabatean art and architecture
Ashley Tamminga - "My Pake's Going to Disown Me; The Myth of the Frisian"
Zach Meyer - "All the Emperor's Men: The Emperor's Power in Ammianus Marcellinus."

Anna Svetlikova, PhD. Candidate, Dept. of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague; Fulbright scholar at Yale University (08/06-06/07), "Jonathan Edwards on Religious Imagination" [April 10, 2007]

William H. Katerberg, Calvin College History Department, "Cybernetic Frontiers, Ecotopias, and Visions of Apocalypse: The American West in Science Fiction and Film." [March 7, 2007]

Daniel Miller, Calvin College History Department, "Protestantism and Radicalism in Mexico from the 1860s to the 1930s" [February 14, 2007]

Book Release Party for James Bratt: "Antirevivalism in Antebellum America" and Bert de Vries: "Wadi el-Far'a Project Report, No. 8"
and "The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan" [December 6, 2006]

Frans van Liere of the Calvin History Department "Christ or Antichrist: The Jewish Messiah in Twelfth-Century Christian Eschatology." [November 8, 2006]

Bruce Berglund, Calvin College History Dep't. "Christianity in 20th century Eastern Europe: Studying the Church in the Age of Commissars and Ethnic Cleansing" [October 18, 2006]

Leif Manger, University of Bergen (Norway), Anthropology “Between Asia, Africa and Europe: Global Moments in the LEVANT.” [October 12, 2006]

Gottfried Hagan, University of MI Department of Near Eastern Studies "Image and Icon: Visual representations of the Prophet Muhammad." [October 4, 2006]

Bert de Vries and Elizabeth Osinga, Calvin College History Dep't. "A History of Nabtaean Temples - from Independence to Roman Rule." [March 15, 2006]

Kate van Liere, Calvin College History Dept. "The History of the Cult of St. James in Spain" [February 15, 2006]

Michael Gomez, New York University, speaking on a new history of the African diaspora. Co-sponsored by Calvin's African and African Diaspora Studies minor. [February 7, 2006]

Dan Miller, Calvin College History Dept. "What's the Christian Reformed Church Doing in Cuba? " [November 16, 2005]

Will Van Arragon, Calvin College History Dept. "Dreadful, Ghostly, Ghastly Cotton Mather: Remembering an American Puritan in the Nineteenth Century" [October 19, 2005]

Calvin College History Dept. Honors Student-Senior Thesis Presentations [May 4, 2005]
Steve Dozeman: "The Treatment of the Nabataeans in the Works of Josephus"
Ross Weener: "Hugo Chavez: A Radical Break from Democracy?"

Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Calvin College History Dept. [April 20, 2005]
“The Forgotten Woman's Bible: The Feminist Theologies of Katharine Bushnell, Lee Anna Starr, and M. Madeline Southard”

Brian Dippie, University of Victoria [Feb. 16, 2005]
"Wild West, Lost West: The Art of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell" - 6th Annual Mellema Lecture
The Mellema Program in Western American Studies is a special asset in the History Dept made possible by a generous endowment from department alumnus Dirk Mellema and his wife JoAnn.

Robert Schoone-Jongen, Calvin College History Dept. [Nov. 17, 2004
"Farms, Faith, and Families: The Dutch-American Colonies of Theodore F. Koch (1885-1915)"

Bo-Mi Choi, (Class of 1994) University of Chicago/Harvard [October 21, 2004]
Faustus Goes To Hollywood: Thomas Mann and Theodor W. Adorno in Los Angeles, 1941-1949
first annual presentation in the Alumni Lecture Series

Calvin College History Dept. Honors Student Senior Thesis Presentations [April 14, 2004] Jeffrey Rop : "Hellenistic Mystery and Gnosis in Early Christianity"

Wayne teBrake, Purchase College, SUNY [March 17, 2004]
Religious War and the Cultural Politics of Peace in Europe

Eduardo Sánchez, Grand Valley State University [Feb. 25, 2004]
Resources Management: The Clash of Two Cultures in Los Andes of Ecuador
Co-sponsored with the Spanish Dept. and Third World Development Studies.