American Intellectual History

PhD, History, University of Notre Dame

MA, History, University of Colorado

MA, Religious Studies, University of Denver

BA, Psychology, Biola University

Dr. Ángel de Jesús Cortés is a Professor of History at Holy Cross College. Cortés is an intellectual historian of the Gilded Age, with interests in the interface of science and religion, the history of colleges and universities, sectarianism and the concomitant rise of secularization. He is the author of Sectarianism & Orestes Brownson in the American Religious Marketplace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and reviews books for Pacific Historical Review, Choice, and Religious Studies Review. For a recent work, see ‘Henry Adams’s Protean Views of the American Empire, 1890-1905,’ Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era 21 (2022): 168-181. Cortés is currently at work on a study of British and American religious thought regarding select Pacific Islands in the Gilded Age.

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