Professor Mark Noll Joins History Faculty
The Department of History warmly welcomes Professor Mark Noll as the new Francis McAnaney Professor of History. Noll comes to Notre Dame from Wheaton College, where he has taught since the late 1970s and compiled an extraordinary record. He will serve as the replacement to George Marsden, who retires in 2008, solidifying the department’s standing as the best place to study American religious history in the country.
Noll is also the department’s first member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of several dozen scholarly articles and a number of books. His most well-known—and award-winning—book is America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, (Oxford, 2004). Last spring he published The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (North Carolina, 2006). This fall he delivers at Princeton an endowed set of lectures sponsored by Princeton University and Princeton University Press on the subject of religion and race.