Bryan Lamkin, Ph.D.

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Biography

Bryan Lamkin, Ph.D., teaches American history at Azusa Pacific University. His expertise includes American ethnic and immigration history, 19th century U.S. cultural history, and the history of the American West. He is working on several articles and books about Irish immigrants in the American West, based on a large database of Irish immigrant letters that he has created over the last decade. Dr. Lamkin was the co-founder and first elected president of the Western Regional branch of the Conference on Faith and History.

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1997
M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1990
M.A., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1989
B.A., University of Washington, 1981

Credentials/Certifications

Advanced Oral History Institute, sponsored by the Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley, 2006

Academic Area

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Department of History and Political Science

Expertise

19th Century U.S. Cultural History
American Immigration and Ethnic History
History of Religion in America
History of the American West

Courses Taught

HIST 151 – United States History to 1865
HIST 152 – United States History Since 1865
HIST 330 – History of Religion in America
HIST 338 – History of California
HIST 342 – The American West
HIST 346 – History of American Immigration
HIST 374 – Colonial Era
HIST 376 – The Revolution and the Republic
HIST 380 – Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 382 – Emergence of Modern America
HIST 386 – Modern America
HIST 420 - Topics in Cinema and History: The Western
POLI 496 – Senior Seminar: Religion and Politics
HUM 321 - Great Works
HUM 325 - Christian Classics