David D. Criscione
Ph.D. Candidate Graduate Academic Chair, Baylor History Department, 2023-2024
Advisors
Dr. Philip Jenkins, Dr. Thomas Kidd
Education
M.Litt. in Early Modern History, University of St. Andrews, 2019
B.A. in History and International Relations, Wheaton College (IL), 2018
Research Interests
Broadly speaking, I am interested in the comparative history of religion, science, and imperialism in the Atlantic World.
My dissertation, entitled “The New Science and the New World,” examines how Christian missions to Amerindians in seventeenth-century North America produced scientific advancements in Europe. This transatlantic study unites Catholic and Protestant missions to Amerindians with the events of the Scientific Revolution by analyzing correspondence between colonial missionaries and metropolitan scientists. My research also argues that certain Amerindian communities experienced their own revolutions in scientific understanding and natural knowledge from their encounters with European colonists.
Exam Fields: American History to 1877. Atlantic World, Early Modern Science
Selected Publications
Digital Humanities Projects and Blog Posts
“Science in New France: Reading the Jesuit Relations (1613-1791).” August 9, 2022. Access Visualization.
“Novel Ideas on Religious Toleration during the Age of Enlightenment.” Contributor to Religious Toleration in Enlightenment Europe. Access Article. Access Visualization.
“Fearing the Witch: Margaret Hamilton, Fred Rogers, and Brian Levack’s The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe,” The Anxious Bench, October 27, 2021. Access Article.
Selected Activities
Awards/Fellowships
- Graduate School Fellowship, Baylor University, 2020-2024
- Data Research Fellow, Baylor University Libraries, 2022
- Data Scholar Certification, Baylor University Libraries, 2022
- Conyers Scholar, Baylor University, 2021-2022
- Bryce C. Brown Research Fellowship, Mayborn Museum at Baylor University, 2021
- Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society