Jon Butler

Jon Butler is Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Howard R. Lamar Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies.  He grew up in rural Minnesota and received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.  His books include Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order (1978; new ed. 2009), The Huguenots in America:  A Refugee People in New World Society (1983);  Awash in a Sea of Faith:  Christianizing the American People (1990);  Becoming America:  The Revolution Before 1776 (2000), and Religion in American Life:  A Short History, co-authored with Grant Wacker and Randall Balmer (2003), as well as many articles and reviews.  He is writing a book about religion in New York City between the Civil War and the Kennedy election tentatively entitled God in Gotham:  The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan.