William J. Bulman

William J. Bulman is an historian of Britain and its empire who teaches history and global studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Before moving to Bethlehem he held postdoctoral fellowships at Vanderbilt and Yale. His research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Templeton Foundation. His work focuses on politics, religion, and culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and in particular on the causes, nature, and consequences of the English Revolution. His first book, Anglican Enlightenment, offers a re-interpretation of the early Enlightenment and the religious politics of later Stuart England and its empire. Some of his current research continues lines of thought developed in Anglican Enlightenment, while his second major project examines the changing nature of individual and collective political decision-making in the early modern British Atlantic world.