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David Katz

Visiting Professor of History
David  Katz
davidkatz@brandeis.edu
781-736-2799
Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex, 320

Departments/Programs

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


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