Valparaiso University Hosts Willis Boyd History Lecture Featuring Historian Darren Dochuk

WHO: Valparaiso University welcomes historian and former Lilly Fellow Darren Dochuk for the 2014 Willis Boyd History Lecture, part of the annual Christ College Symposium and presented in partnership with the Department of History. The lecture honors former Valpo history professor Will Boyd.

Dochuk is associate professor in the humanities at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on the connections between religion, politics, and culture in modern United States history.

WHAT: Dochuk’s lecture will discuss “Crude Awakenings: A Religious History of Oil and Oil-Patch Politics in America’s Century.” Tapping the story of the Sun Oil Company for illustration, Dochuk will explore the fascinating institutional, ideological, and imaginative connections that drew the business of oil and the church together in the 20th century.

WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 20, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Mueller Hall Refectory, Valparaiso University