Jon Butler
Howard R.
Lamar Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious
Studies and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences
B.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Jon Butler has taught at Yale since 1985 and taught previously at California State University at Bakersfield and the University of Illinois at Chicago. With Harry Stout, he directed the Pew Program in Religion and American History between 1993 and 2003, and he is a member of the editorial board of The Works of Jonathan Edwards. He has held Guggenheim and NEH fellowships and has written Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order: The English Churches in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1730; The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society; Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People, Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776, as well as numerous articles and a book co-authored with Randall Balmer and Grant Wacker, Religion in American Life, A Short History. He is currently writing a book on religion in twentieth-century New York City, tentatively entitled God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan.
