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James B. Jeffries Professor Jeffries is a specialist in Native American history and American Colonial History. His interests center on the early religious encounters between Native Americans and Europeans. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His dissertation, "Denying Religion: French and Native American Spiritual Crossroads in Seventeenth-Century New France," examines early French claims that the indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes region did not possess religion. By exposing the non-theological grounding of native customs, the project reveals a Christian bias entailed in European definitions of religion—a bias, he contends, that is propagated in much of the current scholarship on the natives of New France. He is a recipient of the President’s Dissertation fellowship at the University of California. He is also a former fellow at the John Nicholas Brown Center at Brown University and the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Before coming to Clemson in 2006, he taught at Colgate University for three years in the Department of Philosophy and Religion.< Previous -- Faculty Home -- Next > |
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