GARY S. DE KREY

Department of History, St. Olaf College

Northfield, MN 55057-1098

(507) 786-3165/3229 (w)

(952) 890-8503 (h)

 

DEGREES AND QUALIFICATIONS

1978                 Ph.D., History, Princeton University

1974                 M.A., History, Princeton University

1971                 B.A., History major, summa cum laude, St. Olaf College

 

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

1988-                Associate Professor and Professor, St. Olaf College, also serving as

     Director, Center for College History, 1998-

     Archivist, Norwegian-American Historical Association, 2004-

1979-88             Assistant and Associate Professor, Colgate University

1978-79             Assistant Professor, Columbia University

1976-78             Research Staff and Lecturer, Princeton University

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

A. Authored Books

á     Restoration and Revolution in Britain: A Political History of the Era of Charles II and the Glorious

Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

á     London and the Restoration, 1659-1683 (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

á     A Fractured Society:  The Politics of London in the First Age of Party, 1688-1715 (Oxford University

Press, 1985).

B. Edited Book

Called to Serve; The Vocation of a Church College, eds. Pamela Schwandt, DeAne Lagerquist, and

Gary De Krey (St. Olaf College, 1999; reprinted 2007).

C. Peer-reviewed Articles

á     ÒBetween Revolutions:  Understanding the Restoration in Britain,Ó History Compass, 6 (March,

2008), http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/hico with online ÒTeaching and Learning GuideÓ in

History Compass, 7 (February, 2009), at http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/history/.

á     "Reformation and 'Arbitrary Government': London Dissenters and James II's Polity of Toleration,

1687-1688," in Jason McElligott, ed. Fear, Exclusion and Revolution; Roger Morrice and Britain in

the 1680s (Ashgate, 2006), pp. 13-31.

á     "Radicals, Reformers, and Republicans:  Political Discourse in Restoration London," in Steven Pincus

and Alan Houston, eds., A Nation Transformed; England after the Restoration (Cambridge University

Press, 2001), pp. 71-99.

á     "Rethinking the Restoration: Dissenting Cases for Conscience, 1667-1672," The Historical Journal, 38, 1

(1995), pp. 53-83.

á     "The First Restoration Crisis:  Conscience and Coercion in London, 1667-73," Albion, 25 (Winter, 1993),

pp.565-80; and "Party Lines: A Reply," to Jonathan Scott, Ibid., pp. 639-43.

á     "Revolution Redivivus: 1688-89 and the Radical Tradition in Seventeenth-Century London Politics," in

Lois G. Schwoerer, ed., The Revolution of 1688-89; Changing Perspectives (Cambridge University

Press, 1992), pp. 198-217.

á     "Political Radicalism in London after the Glorious Revolution," The Journal of Modern History, 55

(December, 1983), pp. 585-617.

D. Commissioned Articles

á     Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004), 21 biographies, including

major articles about Slingsby Bethel and Stephen College.

á     ÒAgnes M. Larson: Historian,Ó in Pamela Schwandt, et. al., eds., Called to Serve (St. Olaf College, 1999),

pp. 117-23.

á     "Reformation in the Restoration Crisis, 1679-82," in Donna B. Hamilton and Richard Strier, eds.,

Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540-1688 (Cambridge University

Press, 1996), pp. 231-52.

á     "London Radicals and Revolutionary Politics, 1675-83," in Tim Harris, et. al., eds., The Politics of

Religion in Restoration England (Blackwell, 1990), pp. 133-62.

á     "The London Whigs and the Exclusion Crisis Reconsidered," in A. L. Beier, David Cannadine, and

James M. Rosenheim, eds., The First Modern Society; Essays in English History in Honour of

Lawrence Stone (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989), pp. 457-82.

á       Contributing author to Richard A. Harrison, ed., Princetonians, 1776-1783: A Biographical

Dictionary and Princetonians, 1769-1775: A Biographical Dictionary (Princeton University Press,

1980-1).

 

 

SCHOLARLY PRIZE

1984                 Walter D. Love Prize in History: Awarded by the North American Conference on British

Studies for the best journal article published in any field of British history in 1983.

 

FOUNDATION GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2009                 Elle and Kaare Nygaard Foundation (archival grant)

2002                 Elle and Kaare Nygaard Foundation (archival grant)

1995                 American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid

1994                 NEH Fellowship for College Teachers

1994                 Folger Shakespeare Library Short-Term Fellowship

1994                 Newberry Library/American Soc. for 18th-Century Studies Short-Term Fellowship

1993                 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

1993                 American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid

1987                 NEH Fellowship for College Teachers

1983                 NEH Summer Stipend

1982                 American Philosophical Society Research Grant-in-Aid

1971                 Danforth Foundation, Graduate Fellow

1971                 Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Graduate Fellow

 

INSTITUTIONAL AWARDS

2003                 Summer Faculty Development Grant, St. Olaf College

1998                 Senior Faculty Released Time Grant, St. Olaf College

1992                 Joyce Teacher Scholar Team, St. Olaf College

1992                 Summer Faculty Development Grant, St. Olaf College

1990                 Hustad Research Fellowship, St. Olaf College

1984                 Junior Faculty Research Leave, Colgate University

1980                 Davis Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University

 

ELECTED PROFESSIONAL OFFICES

Midwest Conference on British Studies:

1998-2000               President

1996-98                  Vice President

North American Conference on British Studies:

1995-97                  Nominating Committee

 

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

2008                 Chair and commentator, session about ÒProphecy, Piety, and Prejudice in later Seventeenth

and early Eighteenth-Century England,Ó Midwest and North American Conferences on

British Studies

2004                 Commentator, session about "Politics and Female Agency in Late Seventeenth and Early

Eighteenth-Century England," Midwest Conference on British Studies.

2003                 Paper, "Reformation and 'Arbitrary Government': The Politics of London Dissent in the

Reign of James II," at conference, ÒThe World of Roger Morrice," Clare College,

Cambridge, and session Chair, "Catholicism and Anti-Popery."

2001                 Commentator for session about "The Politics of Feasting in Stuart England," Midwest and

North American Conferences on British Studies.

1999                 Paper, Midwest and North American Conferences on British Studies: ÒBetween Law and

Resistance: The Politics and Discourse of the London Whigs, 1682-83.Ó

1998                 Chair for session about "Local Spheres in Early Modern English Politics,Ó Midwest

Conference on British Studies.

1996                 Invited Paper at "A Nation Transformed," a Huntington Library/NEH seminar:  "Radicals,

Reformers, and Republicans in Restoration London".

1993                 Chair, Program Committee, Midwest Conference on British Studies.

1992                 Paper and panel organization, American Historical Association Conference:

"Conscience in Crisis: The Politics of Dissent in London, 1667-73" in session, "Reconsidering

the Restoration in England."

 

Additional recent professional activities include:

á     Reviewer, book manuscripts for Oxford University Press, Stanford University Press, Basil Blackwell, and

the University of Rochester Press.

á     Referee, articles for Albion, The Journal of British Studies, and The William and Mary Quarterly.

á     Grant consultant, National Endowment for the Humanities.

á     Book reviews: Albion, H-Albion, American Historical Review, Church History, Faith and Philosophy,

Journal of British Studies, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Modern History, and

Parliamentary History.