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Michael G. Thompson

Spotlight/Insight: USIH Prize Winners Reflect–Michael G. Thompson

Hello readers, and welcome back to the Spotlight/Insight series. We spent most of last week publishing interviews from Eran Zelnik, Eli Cook, Keith Woodhouse, and Nick Witham. Today’s interview is with Michael G. Thompson, a historian of Christianity at Australian Catholic University.  His focus is on Christianity’s intersections with American intellectual life and US foreign relations. His research on American theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr, and on missionary internationalist Sherwood Eddy, has appeared in journals such as American Quarterly and Modern Intellectual History. The article on Sherwood Eddy was awarded the Society for US Intellectual History’s 2016 Dorothy Ross Award, given for Read more