Andrew E. Barnes attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut where he graduated cum laude with a degree in history in 1975. He studied for his doctorate at Princeton University where he defended his doctoral thesis on Christian lay devotional life in early modern France in 1983. He taught and received tenure at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He left Carnegie Mellon for his present position as professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University in 1996. Barnes is the author of three monographs: The Social Dimension of Piety: Associative Life and Religious Change in the Penitent Confraternities of Marseille 1499-1792 (Paulist Press, 1994); Making Headway: The Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria (University of Rochester Press, 2009); Global Christianity and the Black Atlantic: Tuskegee, Colonialism and the Shaping of African Industrial Education (Baylor University Press, 2017), as well as more than 35 research journal articles and scholarly book chapters. He is presently editing The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present, while working on a study of the formation of African Christian consciousness in Africa during the era of European colonialism.
Barnes teaches courses on African, European and World history with a focus on the history of Christianity. His undergraduate course offerings include HST 101: Introduction to Global History since 1500; HST 361: Witchcraft and Heresy in Pre-Modern Europe. His graduate courses include HST 598: Africa in World History; HST 643: Introduction to World History. Barnes was a pioneer in online instruction, offering his first internet course in 1999. More recently he has focused on the development of internet courses for the SHPRS history online master's degree program.
-History of Christianity
-History of Christian Missions
-World History
-African History
-European History
“Thomas Jesse Jones, the Phelps Stokes Education Commissions and Education for Social Welfare in Colonial Africa,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History (2020)
“Christianity and Vocational Education,” in Toyin Falola and Jamaine Abidogun (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on African Education and Indigenous Knowledge (2020)
“Karl Kumm,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographic History (2020)
“The Cross versus the Crescent: The Missiology of Karl Kumm,” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, (2019)
“The Black Atlantic: African Americans, Ethiopianism and Christian Newspapers in Africa,” in Klaus Korschorke (ed.),“Giving publicity to our thoughts” Journale asiatischer und afrikanischer Christen um 1900 und die Entstehung einer transregionalen indigen-christlichen ‚Public Sphere‘ / Journals of Asian and African Christians around 1900 and the making of a transregional indigenous-Christian ‘Public Sphere’ (2019)
“‘Shadow and Sunlight’: Images of Christianization from the pages of The Sudan Witness” in Tim Geysbeek and Shobona Shankar (eds.) Breaking Barriers: the Sudan Interior Mission and African Pioneers Remaking Missions in the Sudan (2018)
"Samuel Ajayi Crowther: Yoruba Missionary Agent," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, 2018
“Christian Social Welfare and its legacy in Colonial Africa” in Martin S. Shanguhyia and Toyin Falola (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History, Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2018
Global Christianity and the Black Atlantic: Tuskegee, Colonialism and the Shaping of African Industrial Education, Baylor University Press, 2017
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
HST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 101 | Global History Since 1500 |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
Summer 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 590 | Reading and Conference |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
HST 792 | Research |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 590 | Reading and Conference |
HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 598 | Special Topics |
HST 643 | Global History |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 101 | Global History Since 1500 |
SGS 111 | Global History Since 1500 |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 101 | Global History Since 1500 |
SGS 111 | Global History Since 1500 |
HST 598 | Special Topics |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 643 | Global History |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 101 | Global History Since 1500 |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 598 | Special Topics |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 101 | Global History Since 1500 |
SGS 111 | Global History Since 1500 |
HST 643 | Global History |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 101 | Global History Since 1500 |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
In the past Barnes has served as Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department (1998-2000) and as Interim Associate Head of African American Studies (2003-2004). From 2003-2005 he was also the director of the faculty group, the Center for African and African American Research (CAAAR). From 2009- 2014 Barnes served as a member of the Development Committee for the College Board's Advance Placement (AP) test on European History. Since 2014 he has served as a member of the Development Committee for the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) test on Western Civilization.