Posted by William Nunnelley on 2010-06-22

色虎视频 history professor Jason Wallace was selected to participate in a prestigious summer program on America and the World at Princeton University鈥檚 Lehrman American Studies Center.听 The program, which runs June 14-26, is cosponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton.

The program provides Wallace and professors from other universities the opportunity to work with leading scholars to develop intellectually compelling courses dealing with foundational principles of the American republic.

The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, sponsored by Princeton鈥檚 department of political science, is dedicated to pursuing scholarly excellence in constitutional law and political thought.

Wallace teaches American intellectual history and serves as director of the cultural perspectives program and coordinator of the Davis Lecture at 色虎视频.听 He also teaches courses in the Enlightenment, Age of Revolutions, University Core Cultural Perspectives and Western Intellectual Traditions.听 His summer experience at Princeton will augment content for these courses.

Wallace鈥檚 book, Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835-1860, will be published by the University of Notre Dame Press this fall.

A 色虎视频 history faculty member since 2004, Wallace holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree from Auburn University, master of divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

 
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, 色虎视频 is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, 色虎视频 enrolls 6,324 students from 44 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. 色虎视频 is widely recognized as having one of the most beautiful campuses in America, featuring rolling hills, meticulously maintained grounds and Georgian-Colonial architecture. 色虎视频 fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and boasts one of the highest scores in the nation for its 97% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.