Andrew Barnes
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COOR 4508 TEMPE, AZ 85287-4302
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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Andrew E. Barnes attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut where he graduated with honors 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 40 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 evolution of Ethiopianism among Christians of African descent across the Atlantic 1780-1930.
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 ASU history online master's degree program and ASU’s Study Hall project on You Tube.
- Ph.D. Princeton University, Princeton NJ 1983
- M.A. Princeton University, Princeton NJ 1978
- B.A. Wesleyan University, Middletown CT 1975
