ROARK ATKINSON

Assistant Professor of History
M.A., Indiana University
Ph.D., Indiana University

Year Joined RCNJ:  2008

Courses Offered:

• Introduction to U.S. History I (HIST 101); Early American Religious History; Colonial North America (HIST 211); Era of the American Revolution (HIST 212); Empire and Independence in the Americas.

Teaching Interest:

• North America, Colonial and Revolutionary Periods; Religion in the Atlantic World, Latin America

Research Interest:

• Popular Religion in the American South; Scottish and Irish Culture

Recent Publications: 

• Forthcoming Book: Invisible Plantations: Religious Violence, Occult Healing, and Witchcraft in the Scottish Atlantic World, 1590-1820