Telephone: 336-841-4574 Office: David Hayworth Hall
109 Email:
pmulder@highpoint.edu
Professor
Mulder studies and teaches early
American history through the era of
the Revolution. His book, A
Controversial Spirit:Evangelical Awakenings in the
South (Oxford University Press,
2002) explores religious ideals and
rituals, denominational organization,
the great awakenings, and the politics
of religious freedom and competition
in the forming United States.The book built on the research
Mulder began as a graduate student at
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill where he studied with
Donald G. Mathews.
In his current
research, Mulder
links his interest in religious
exchange to his fascination with
landscape and geography. He
explores the
boundaries—both physical and
metaphorical—of religious interactions
during early national expansion, and
the various expressions of ecumenism
and schism that accompanied religious
change in the trans- Appalachian
west. The project allows his mind to
linger in the places he has most
treasured during in his journeys: the
Appalachians and the Great Lakes
region. In addition, Mulder was
the 2007 organizer for SHOPtalk
(Southern Historians of the Piedmont),
and served on the Planning and Program
committees of Winston-Salem's
BookMarks reading festival. Mulder has lived in Michigan
and North Carolina, and he has
traveled throughout the North American
continent.
Courses Taught by Dr.
Mulder
HST 101.Western
Civilization to the Enlightenment
HST 102.Western
Civilization since the Enlightenment
HST 205.United
State History to 1877
HST 206.United
States History since 1877
HST 332.Early
American History
HST 333.
Revolutionary and Early National United
States
