Dr. Mitchell Snay Affiliation: Faculty Title: Professor Email: snay@denison.edu Phone: 740-587-6599

Dr. Snay, who received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University, teaches courses in American history from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. These classes include the American history survey from settlement through the Civil War and upper-level classes like the Age of Jefferson (1800-1828). His research and writing focus on the intellectual and political history of the United States between 1815 and 1877. Mitchell Snay was educated at the University of Michigan and Brandeis University, where he received his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization. Before coming to Denison in 1986, Snay was a lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University. His books include Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (1993), and Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction (2007). He is also the co-editor of Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery (1998). Snay has published numerous articles and review essays on Southern political and intellectual history and nineteenth-century American politics.