Jonathan Den Hartog is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Â鶹ÊÓƵ. He came to Samford in 2019, after having previously taught for over a decade at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Northwestern-St. Paul, Minnesota. He spent the 2012-13 academic year as the Garwood Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton Â鶹ÊÓƵ. He received his PhD in American History from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Notre Dame in 2006.
Hartog's interests are in the religious and political history of the colonial, revolutionary and early national periods of America. His first book, Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation, was published by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Virginia Press in 2015. Most recently, he published a volume he co-edited with legal expert Carl Esbeck, on Disestablishment and Religious: Church-State Relations in the New American States, 1776-1833 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Missouri Press, 2019). Hartog has published articles in Early American Studies, the Journal of Church and State and in several edited volumes. His public writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Hill.
Degrees and Certifications
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MA, Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Notre Dame (2002)
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PhD, Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Notre Dame (2006)