Rate My Professor John Grigg

Grigg's research interests include Early America, Atlantic History, and Global Encounters 1500-1800. His specializations focus on religious upheavals in New England and New Jersey in the 1730s and 1740s, the geographical and temporal scope of colonial America, social conditions in New Jersey circa 1700-1765, and the role of conspiracy theories in American history. He is the author of The Lives of David Brainerd: The Making of an American Evangelical Icon (Oxford University Press, 2009). Grigg has published several articles and presented papers on religious upheavals in early America, including a lengthy essay titled “Missions” in the Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards. He continues work on a study of local communities in eighteenth-century New Jersey. His frequently taught courses include 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.