黑料导航 Promotes Andrew Thomas to Professor of History
University of Michigan Published his Second Book in October 2022
The Salem Academy and College Board of Trustees unanimously voted on May 4 to promote Andrew L. Thomas, Ph.D. to Professor of History at 黑料导航. Thomas came to Salem in 2007 following a ten-month stay as a doctoral research fellow at the Leibniz-Institute for European History in Mainz, Germany.
Prior to his promotion, Thomas was an Associate Professor of History at Salem. He teaches upper-division courses in European history from ancient Greece to the present. Thomas also teaches world history survey courses and courses that are cross listed with the health humanities major.
Thomas鈥 review found him to be an outstanding professor鈥攂oth rigorous and inspiring. In particular, it was noted that Thomas is an internationally recognized scholar whose work on Early Modern European history opens the understanding of the ways that ethnic and religious diversity were experienced by scholars, ministers and regular people.
鈥淎ndrew Thomas is a highly valued and productive member of the 黑料导航 faculty who has been recognized by his peers for his stellar work in the classroom and through his scholarship,鈥 Salem Academy and College President Summer J. McGee, Ph.D., CPH said. 鈥淲e are proud to count him as one of our colleagues.鈥
鈥淎ndrew is the perfect professor for a liberal arts college鈥攚ise, thoughtful and dedicated to helping students grow as human beings, not just as future employees,鈥 said Gary Daynes, 黑料导航 Interim Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and Interim Dean of the College.
Thomas鈥檚 research interests include late medieval piety, Renaissance humanism, Protestant and Catholic Reformations, Christian-Jewish-Muslim relations, Baroque absolutism, and the early Enlightenment with a particular emphasis on Central Europe. He also has a secondary interest in the early modern transatlantic world.
In October 2022, the University of Michigan Press published Thomas鈥檚 second book, The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg: Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander鈥檚 World. This book concentrates on the worldview of the Lutheran preacher and theologian Andreas Osiander (1498鈥1552). Osiander played a critical role in spreading the Lutheran Reformation in 16th-century Nuremberg.
Thomas is beginning a new book project, tentatively titled 鈥淭he Northern Renaissance in Vienna: Imperialism and Orientalism in the Writings of Johannes Cuspinianus.鈥 It focuses on Johannes Cuspinianus (1473鈥1529), a Renaissance humanist trained in medicine, who exemplified the connections between medicine and the liberal arts during the Renaissance.
Thomas received an MA and a Ph.D. from Purdue University and a BA from the University of Utah.