History

James Strasburg

Associate Professor of History
“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.“
— George Eliot

Faculty Information

Additional Faculty Information for James Strasburg

Education

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2018
M.T.S., Duke University, 2013
B.A., Valparaiso University, 2010

 

Dr. James D. Strasburg is assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College. He formerly served as a visiting scholar at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and graduated with his Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of Notre Dame in 2018. At Hillsdale College, he teaches both the Western and American Heritage core courses, as well as upper-level surveys in twentieth-century U.S. history, with a thematic focus on political, religious, and diplomatic history. His first book, God’s Marshall Plan: American Protestants and the Struggle for the Soul of Europe, appeared with Oxford University Press in 2021. In his free time, Dr. Strasburg enjoys any and all pursuits in the great outdoors, including mountain biking, skiing, trail runs, and hiking.