Christopher Grasso
Professor of History
Office:
Blair 351
Email:
[[cdgras]]
Regional Areas of Research:
Atlantic World, Early America, United States
Thematic Areas of Research:
Cultural/Intellectual, Religion
Background
Christopher Grasso earned his PhD from Yale in 1992, taught at St. Olaf College, and came to William & Mary in 1999. From 2000 to 2013 he served as the Editor of the William and Mary Quarterly. He has published A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut (OIEAHC/ UNC Press, 1999), and articles in, for example, William & Mary Quarterly, the Journal of the Early Republic, and the Journal of American History. He has edited a Civil War memoir for Yale University Press and has completed a biography of the same character for Oxford University Press: Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy: The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso” (forthcoming, 2021). His most recent work, Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War appeared with Oxford University Press in 2018 and won the SHEAR Best Book Prize. His specialization is American religious history to 1900.
