Meredith Veldman

Meredith Veldman

Professor
250F Himes Hall
578-4413
hyveld@lsu.edu

 

Courses Taught

Western Civilization, 1500 to present; Home Fronts: The Civilian Experience in WWII; European Cities since 1500; 19th-Century Britain; 20th-Century Britain; History of Modern Ireland; 20th-Century Europe; Undergrad Seminar: “Living with the Bomb: Anglo-American Nuclear Culture;” Undergrad Seminar: "Revolution! The Fall of Communism, the End of the Cold War, and the Making of a New Europe;" Undergrad Seminar: "Saving the World: The British Hero in Pop Culture;" Undergrad Seminar: "History and Memory: The Easter Rising of 1916;" Graduate Research Seminar; Graduate Reading Seminars in 19th and 20th Century Britain

 

Current Research Interests

19th-20th century British religious, cultural, and social history

 

Interested in Directing Theses On

19th and 20th Century British cultural, religious, and social history

 

Education

B.A., Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, 1982; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1988

 

Awards and Honors

LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation President's Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2016; College of Humanities and Social Sciences Tiger Athletic Foundation Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, 2014; College of Humanities and Social Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, 2009; Louisiana State University Council on Research Summer Faculty Research Grant, 2007; Council on Research Grant, 2003; College of Arts and Sciences Research Award, 1993; LSU Manship Summer Fellowship, 1993; ACLS Fellowship, 1991

 

Notable Articles

"'Dressed in an Angel’s Nightshirt’: Jesus and the BBC,” Journal of British Studies 56 (January 2017): 117-137.

"From Dutiful Daughter to All-Boy: Jesus, Gender and the Secularization of Victorian Society,” Nineteenth-Century Studies 11 (1997): 1-24.

 

Books

The British Jesus, 1850-1970 (Routledge, 2022)

The West: Encounters and Transformations (co-author), 5th edition, Pearson, 2017.

Margaret Thatcher: Shaping the New Conservatism. Oxford, 2015.

Peoples of the British Isles, Volumes 2 and 3 (co-author), Oxford, 2014.

Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protest, 1945-1980. Cambridge, 1994.