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Marilyn J. Westerkamp

Marilyn J. Westerkamp   
Marilyn J. Westerkamp
    Title:  Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Concentration:  The Americas and Africa
    Email:  mjw@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-3427 Office
(831) 459-2555 Message
    Office:  273 Stevenson
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Wednesdays, 10:00 - 12:00pm

Courses Taught 
HIS-110A-01 - Colonial America, 1500-1750
HIS-112-01 - US Feminist Thought, 1750-1950
HIS-113C-01 - Women and American Religious Culture
HIS-13-01 - Introductions to American Religious Culture
HIS-190P-01 - Early American Society and Culture
HIS-190Q-01 - The Novel as History
HIS-190R-01 - Research in the History of American Religion
HIS-204A-01 - History of Gender and Research Seminar
HIS-210A-01 - Readings in US History
HIS-220-01 - The Atlantic World, 1500-1800

Research Focus 
British colonial and revolutionary America, early modern cultural and religious history, U.S. religious history, women's history, gender

Education History 
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Selected Publications 
Women and Religion in Early America 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

"Engendering Puritan Religious Culture in Old and New England." Pennsylvania History 64 (1997), 105-22.

"Puritan Patriarchy and the Problem of Divine Revelation." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 23 (1993), 571-95.

"Anne Hutchinson, Sectarian Mysticism, and the Puritan Order." Church History, 59 (1990), 482-96.

Triumph of the Laity: Scots-Irish Piety and the Great Awakening 1625-1760. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.