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Jason Strandquist received his B.A. in History from the University of Illinois and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. A specialist in the social impact of religious change in German-speaking Europe, his current research explores links between the polemical conflicts of the “confessional age” and the “culture wars” of the twenty-first century.

At Union, Dr. Strandquist teaches core courses in World Civilization (His 101 and 102), Human Geography and Social Geography (Geo 215 and 216), and the upper-division history courses Twentieth-Century Europe, The French Revolution and Napoleon, and Renaissance and Reformation. His newest course, a history of technology entitled “Tech and the Modern Person,” debuted in Spring 2025. He lives in Jackson with his wife and dogs.