Dale K. Vankley  [1941]

Academic/Scholar

Professor Dale Vankley is a distinguished scholar and professor of Early Modern European History at Ohio State University [OSU]. He joined OSU in 1998, after previously having served as a history professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Professor Van Kley’s academic specialization is focused on the French Revolution and its religious origins.

His studies of the history of France, and of the French Revolution, have resulted in a number of academic studies which were subsequently published in several academic books. His first book was entitled, “The Jansenists and the Expulsion of the Jesuits from France, 1757-1765”, published by Yale University Press in 1975. His next book appeared in 1983, and was entitled, “Damien’s Affair and the Unraveling of the Ancient Regime: Church, State, and Society in France, 1750-1770”, published by Princeton University Press in 1983. After a gap of over ten years, his next book, a book he edited, arrived, and was entitled, “The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789”, published by Stanford University Press in 1994.

Vankley’s most important book of his academic career, an award winning book, appeared in 1996. It was entitled, “The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791”, published by Yale University Press. And his latest book arrived in 2002. It was entitled, “Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe”, published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Professor Vankley has recently devoted more time to eighteenth century Dutch history. Two articles emanated from this research in 2008, including, “Religion and the Age of Patriot Reform”, published in the “Journal of Modern History”, and, “Civic Humanism in Clerical Guise: Gallican Memories of the Early Church and the Project of Primitivist Reform, 1719-1791”, published in the journal, “Past and Present”. Van Kley is also engaged on a book project entitled, “Catholic Reform in an Age of Anti-Catholic Revolution”.

Professor Vankley did his graduate work in history at Yale University and graduated with his Ph. D. degree in 1970. While working on his doctoral dissertation, he taught history for a year at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. Following graduation, he joined Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and remained there for 28 years, until he joined Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 1998.

 

REFERENCES

Dale Vankley, The Ohio State University, College of Arts and College of Humanities

 

E-BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON; GOOGLE: Kindle Store Pegels

 

PROMINENT DUTCH AMERICANS, CURRENT AND HISTORIC

EIGHT PROMINENT DUTCH AMERICAN FAMILIES: THE ROOSEVELTS, VANDERBILTS AND OTHERS, 2015

FIFTEEN PROMINENT DUTCH AMERICAN FAMILIES: THE VAN BURENS, KOCH BROTHERS, VOORHEES AND OTHERS, 2015

PROMINENT DUTCH AMERICANS IN U.S. GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP POSITIONS, 2015

 

DUTCH PEGELS INVOLVED IN WARS

ALLIED EUROPE CAMPAIGN—1944/1945: TACTICAL MISTAKES, 2017

THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE NETHERLANDS: MEMOIRS, 2017

FRENCH REVOLUTION, NAPOLEON AND RUSSIAN WAR OF 1812, 2015