Anglican Enlightenment: Orientalism, Religion and Politics in England and its Empire, 16481715

About William J. Bulman

William J. Bulman is an assistant professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem Pennsylvania where he teaches European history and global studies. He received his Ph.D. in 2010 from Princeton University where he received the Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellowship and other honors. Between 2009 and 2012 he held research fellowships at Vanderbilt and Yale. His doctoral work was supported by the Mellon Foundation and the US Department of Education and in 2012 he was among the two youngest scholars in eight disciplines to be awarded a Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs Grant from the Historical Society and the Templeton Foundation. His articles on the intellectual religious political and cultural history of England and its empire have appeared in Past and Present The Journal of British Studies History Compass and other venues. In addition to the themes covered in Anglican Enlightenment his current research examines the changing nature of political practice and decision-making in the British Atlantic world between the late sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is also co-editor of God in the Enlightenment (with Robert G. Ingram 2016).