Jonathan Den Hartog is the Carolyn and Don Drennen Chair of U.S. History, Civics, and the Constitution, as well as a full professor and the 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 a university in 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.
Den 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. Subsequently, he published a volume he co-edited with legal expert Carl Esbeck, on Disestablishment and Religious Dissent: Church-State Relations in the New American States, 1776-1833 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Missouri Press, 2019). His most recent work is an edited collection of the writings of the American Founding Father John Jay, titled The Political Writings of John Jay (Cambridge Â鶹ÊÓƵ Press).
Den Hartog has received grants from a number of historical and scholarly organizations, including the National Endowment for the Humanities. He 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
- MA, Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Notre Dame (2002)
- PhD, Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Notre Dame (2006)