Emily Conroy-Krutz
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
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I am an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. Here in East Lansing, I teach courses on US women’s history, colonial America, the American Revolution, the US and the World, religious history, and historical methodology. Some of these are in the history department, while others are offered through MSU’s integrative studies programs, bringing me into contact with a wide range of students. Aside from the individual subject material in each class, I try to teach my students that history matters for them today. Of course, history courses teach them them the important skills of careful reading, analytical thinking, clear writing, and so on. But more than this, learning about history teaches them that events have consequences, but that effects are not determined in advance. In my classrooms, I try to help my students see the ways that the past has echoes in the present and why that matters.

My research focuses on the international dimensions of reform and religion in the early American republic. My first book (forthcoming in Cornell University Press’ US and the World Series) examines the global reach of the American foreign mission movement in the years between the 1790s and 1840s and analyzes the missionary response to imperialism. I enjoy bringing my research into the classroom whenever possible (and have blogged here about the difficulties and joys of doing so). For more on my research, see my website at emilyconroykrutz.com.

I am an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. Here in East Lansing, I teach courses on US women’s history, colonial America, the American Revolution, the US and the World, religious history, and historical methodology. Some of these are in the history department, while others are offered through MSU’s integrative studies programs, bringing me into contact with a wide range of students. Aside from the individual subject material in each class, I try to teach my students that history matters for them today. Of course, history courses teach them them the important skills of careful reading, analytical thinking, clear writing, and so on. But more than this, learning about history teaches them that events have consequences, but that effects are not determined in advance. In my classrooms, I try to help my students see the ways that the past has echoes in the present and why that matters.

My research focuses on the international dimensions of reform and religion in the early American republic. My first book (forthcoming in Cornell University Press’ US and the World Series) examines the global reach of the American foreign mission movement in the years between the 1790s and 1840s and analyzes the missionary response to imperialism. I enjoy bringing my research into the classroom whenever possible (and have blogged here about the difficulties and joys of doing so). For more on my research, see my website at emilyconroykrutz.com.