Faculty

William J. Bulman
Research Assistant Professor Of History

PhD, Princeton University, 2009

Early Modern Britain and Europe

Telephone:  615-343-4328
Email:  bill.bulman@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours:  by appointment
Office: 102 Benson Hall room

Bill Bulman studies early modern European politics, religion, and culture, and focuses on the seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century British empire.  His interests include England’s seventeenth-century revolutions; late humanism and the Enlightenment; colonial religion; historiography; travel writing; relations among Christians, Muslims, and Jews; historical theory and methods; and the post-Reformation Church of England.

Bulman’s article on political decision-making, “The Practice of Politics: The English Civil War and the ‘Resolution’ of Henrietta Maria and Charles I,” will appear this year in Past and Present.  He is writing a book based on his dissertation, “Constantine’s Enlightenment: Culture and Religious Politics in the Early British Empire, c. 1648-1710,” and completing articles on theater and imperial politics in the first Restoration crisis; the politics of the Restoration bookshop; and the spatial boundaries of social norms as documented in witchcraft trial narratives.  Bulman is also beginning a second major project that will draw on social-scientific methods to study the emergence of adversarial politics in Britain.  His work has been supported by a number of awards, including the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, and Princeton’s Laurence S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellowship.

Bulman’s teaching interests include Britain and the empire; the Renaissance; the Reformation; the Enlightenment; comparative religious violence, revolution, and state formation; Europe and the Islamic empires; travel and exploration; and historical theory and methods.

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

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