David Katz
Visiting Professor of History
Degrees
Oxford University, D.Phil.Oxford University, M.Phil.
Columbia University, B.A.
Expertise
The history of ideas in the long early modern period (1500-1900), especially the history of religion.Profile
He has published three books about the Jews in early modern England; three books about Christianity and radical Christian thought, same time and place; and one book about Turkey in the British imagination, 1776-1923. He is now writing a book about William James as an historian of religion.Courses Taught
| HIST | 150b | Reading the Writing of European History |
| HIST | 152b | The European Occult Tradition, 1200-2021 |
| HIST | 173a | What's the Big Ideas? People and Concepts You Should Know About from Darwin to Derrida |
| HIST | 188b | The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1350-1900 |