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Darren Dochuk
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 2005
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Main Office Phone: 765-494-4122
University Hall
672 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2087
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Specialization:
My research focuses principally on the
intersection of politics, religion, and culture in post-1940 America.
Overlapping with these research concerns are my primary teaching
interests in twentieth-century American political, cultural, and
religious history, the history of modern conservatism, and the history
of American society in the post-World War II era.
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Biography:
My interest in American history stems from
childhood experiences growing up in Edmonton, Alberta. When
looking for a summer vacation destination my family typically looked
south (we never saw much need in exploring tundra north of the city),
and it was this urge that chased us to far-off, exotic placed like
Dallas and Duluth. Determined to learn more about this strange,
foreign land I took up American history, first casually then as an
undergraduate history major at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby,
British Columbia. Bitten with the history bug I moved to Queen's
University in Ontario where I completed an M.A. degree by writing a
thesis on religion and politics in late-nineteenth-century Toronto.
It was my desire to study similar dynamics
in the twentieth-century American environment that led me to Notre Dame
for my Ph.D. There I completed a dissertation that sought to
explain the rise of the Republican Right in postwar Southern California
by accounting for the "plain folk" religious ideas, individuals, and
institutions that moved west from Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas during
and after World War II. Awarded the 2006 Allan Nevins Dissertation
Prize by the Society of American Historians, my dissertation manuscript,
now titled "From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain Folk Religion, Grassroots
Politics, and the Rise of the Conservative Southwest," is currently
under consideration and revision for publication. While wrapping
up this project I will continue researching my next book and writing
shorter pieces on conservative religion and politics in the twentieth
century, as well as on other related themes in urban and western
American and Canadian history.
At Purdue I have the privilege of offering
courses that allow me to combine my research and teaching interests.
General courses like American Political History, Post-1945 America, and
the Post-Civil War American Survey are my mainstays, but I also look
forward to offering undergraduate and graduate courses on Politics and
Culture in the Modern West, History of the American Right, Religion and
Politics in Cold War America, and The Seventies.
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