John Fea (Ph.D, Stony Brook University, 1999) is Associate Professor of American History and Chair of the History Department at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. Fea has written extensively for both scholarly and popular audiences.
He is the author of The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2011) and co-editor of Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation. (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010). His book The Power to Transform: A Christian Reflection on the Study of the Past will appear sometime in the next couple of years with Baker Academic.
John's essays and reviews on the history of American culture have appeared in The Journal of American History, The William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of the Early Republic, Explorations in Early American Culture, the New Pantagruel, The Cresset, and Common Place. He has also written for the Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Daily News, Houston Chronicle, Austin-American Statesman,m Harrisburg Patriot News, Salt Lake City Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and other newspapers. He writes a weekly column called "Confessing History" at the religion website Patheos and blogs daily at The Way of Improvement Leads Home
John has been a fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the Lilly Fellows Program at Valparaiso University. His work has received funding from the American Philosophical Society, the New Jersey Historical Commission, the Louisville Institute, the McNeil Center, the David Library of the American Revolution, and the Spencer Foundation.
He is the author of The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2011) and co-editor of Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation. (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010). His book The Power to Transform: A Christian Reflection on the Study of the Past will appear sometime in the next couple of years with Baker Academic.
John's essays and reviews on the history of American culture have appeared in The Journal of American History, The William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of the Early Republic, Explorations in Early American Culture, the New Pantagruel, The Cresset, and Common Place. He has also written for the Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Daily News, Houston Chronicle, Austin-American Statesman,m Harrisburg Patriot News, Salt Lake City Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and other newspapers. He writes a weekly column called "Confessing History" at the religion website Patheos and blogs daily at The Way of Improvement Leads Home
John has been a fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the Lilly Fellows Program at Valparaiso University. His work has received funding from the American Philosophical Society, the New Jersey Historical Commission, the Louisville Institute, the McNeil Center, the David Library of the American Revolution, and the Spencer Foundation.
