Rate My Professor John Grigg

Dr. Grigg has published several articles and presented papers on colonial religious history. His key works include the monograph The Lives of David Brainerd: The Making of an American Evangelical Icon (Oxford University Press, 2009), which explores the life and posthumous reinterpretation of the eighteenth-century missionary David Brainerd. He edited British Colonial America: People and Perspectives (ABC-CLIO, 2008) and contributed the chapter "Missions" to The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford University Press, 2021). Other publications feature "'Ye relief of ye poor of sd towne': Poverty and Localism in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey" in New Jersey History (2010). He frequently teaches courses such as Colonial America (HIST 4140/8146), Religion in Early America (HIST 4010/8016), American History to 1865 (HIST 1110), and graduate seminars in Early America and Global Encounters. Currently, Dr. Grigg is examining local communities in eighteenth-century New Jersey.