John Corrigan Professor of American Religious History, The Florida State University, and Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair of the Roosevelt Studies Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands Spring 2015 John Corrigan is a Professor of American religious history at the Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1982. His research focuses on religion and emotion, religious intolerance, and the spatial humanities. In his courses he has taught about religion and region in America, religion in the American 19th century, religious intolerance in America, religion in the colonial Americas, and the historiography of American religion and religion and emotion. Professor Corrigan’s research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. He is author of many books, among them The Hidden Balance (Cambridge University Press, 1987); The Prism of Piety (Oxford University Press, 1991); Emotion and Religion (coauthor, Greenwood, 2000); Religion and Emotion: Approaches and Interpretations (editor, Oxford University Press, 2004), Religion in American History (coeditor, Blackwell, 2010), and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion (editor, Oxford University Press, 2008). Currently, Professor Corrigan is the Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair for the Netherlands. Bevor that he was regular or visiting faculty at the University of Virginia, Harvard, Arizona State University, Oxford, University of London, University of Halle- Wittenberg, University College in Dublin and a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He also has taught in the FSU program in Florence. May 12, 2015, 6:15 p.m. Religious Intolerance and American Foreign Policy Location: HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstraße 120, Heidelberg CURT UND HEIDEMARIE ENGELHORN PALAIS HAUPTSTRASSE 120 • 69117 HEIDELBERG • TEL. +49-6221-54 3710 • www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de .