William M. Spellman
University of North Carolina
at Asheville
One University Heights
Carmichael Hall 227, CPO
1620
Asheville, NC 28804-8505
(828) 232-5038
Education
Ph.D. 1986 Early
Modern British History
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University
M.A. 1981 Colonial
American History
Syracuse University
B.S. 1978 Summa
Cum Laude in History
Suffolk University, Beacon Hill, Boston, MA
Administrative
and Teaching Experience
2002- Present Interim Dean of Curriculum
2000-2002 National
Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor
Director of Interdisciplinary Humanities
1998-2000 Professor and
Chair of History
1994-1998 Associate
Professor of History
University of North Carolina at Asheville
1988-1994 Assistant
Professor of History
University of North Carolina at Asheville
1987-1988 Assistant
Professor of History
Suffolk University, Boston
Books
2002 The
Global Community: Migration and the Making of the Modern World, 1500-2000. London: Sutton Press.
2001 Monarchies, 1000-2000.
London: Reaktion Press.
1998 European Political Thought,
1600-1700. London: Macmillan Press; New York: St.
Martin’s Press.
1997 John Locke. London: Macmillian Press; New York:
St. Martin’s Press.
1993 The
Latitudinarians and the Church of England,
1660-1700.
Athens and London: University of
Georgia Press.
1988 John Locke and the
Problem of Depravity.
Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Forthcoming
Books (under
contract)
2003 Civilization and
Survival: A History of Western Civilization
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
(co-auhor)
Co-Edited
Books
2000 Exceptional Women
of the Middle Ages and
Renaissance: A Biographical Dictionary.
(co-author) New York: Greenwood Press.
1999 The Asheville
Reader: Medieval and Renaissance
World. Asheville: Pegasus Press.
Articles
2000 Six 500 word
biographical entries for Reformations: Protestant
and Catholic, 1500-1620. New York: Greenwood
Press.
1998 Three 800 word
biographical entries for Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers. London: Routledge Press.
1997 "Mapping the
Afterlife in Seventeenth-Century England".
Journal of the Association of Historians in
North Carolina.
vol. 4.
1995 "Queen Mary II and the Illusion of Power".
In Carole Levin, ed., Political Rhetoric,
Power, and Renaissance
Women. New
York: State University of New York Press.
1994 "Between Death and Judgment: Conflicting Images of the
Afterlife in Late Seventeenth-Century English Eulogies".
Harvard Theological Review.
vol. 87,
no. 1.
1994 "Almost Final
Things: Jeremy Taylor and the Anglican Dilemma of the Dead Before
Resurrection" Anglican and Episcopal
History. vol. 63, no. 1.
1994 "The
Image of Henry VIII". In Arnold Blumberg, ed., Great
Leaders/Great Tyrants. New York: Greenwood Press.
1988 Locke
and the Latitudinarian Perspective on Original Sin".
Revue
Internationale de Philosophie. vol. 62, no. 165.
1987 "Archbishop Tillotson and the Meaning of
Moralism".
Anglican and Episcopal History. vol. 61, no. 4.
1987 "The Christian Estimate of Man in Locke's Essay".
The Journal of Religion. vol.67, no. 4.
Research Fellowships
2000 National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute,
East-West Center, University of Hawaii.
1998 Pew Charitable Trust Summer Research Fellowship,
Calvin College, MI.
1995-1996 George
and Delores Eccles Research Fellow.
Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah.
1995 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA.
Short-Term Fellowship, Summer 1995.
1994 Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Fellowship.
Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. (declined)
1989-1990 National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for
College Teachers and Independent Scholars.
1987 Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia. (declined)
1985-86 Maxwell
School Dissertation Fellowship.
Syracuse University.
Academic
Awards
1997 UNC-Asheville
Division of Student Affairs, Faculty Appreciation Award.
1994 UNC-Asheville
Feldman Professorship for Research.
1993 UNC-Asheville
Distinguished Teacher Award.
1986 Distinguished
Dissertation Award, Syracuse University.
Professional
Papers
1998 Commentator at session:
"Politics and Godliness: Issues During
the Civil War and Interregnum". Southern Conference on British Studies,
Birmingham, AL, 13 Nov. 1998.
1997 Commentator at session:
"The Search for Settlement in the English Civil War and
Restoration".
Carolinas Symposium on
British Studies, Augusta, GA, 5 Oct.
1997.
1996 "Locke on the Nature of the
Afterlife". Association of
Christian Philosophers. Logan, Utah.
1994 "Conflicting Views of Body
and Soul in Late Seventeenth-Century England". Southern Historical Association, European Section. Louisville, KY.
1994 "The Destiny of the Soul in
Latitudinarian Thought". American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
New York City.
1993 "Death and Punishment in
the Thought of Bishop Jeremy Taylor."
Carolinas Symposium on British Studies. Morgantown, WV.
1991 "Reason, Revelation, and
Grace in Latitudinarian Thought." Le Moyne Forum on Religion and Literature. Syracuse, NY.
1991 "The Latitudinarian
Movement". Association of
Historians in North Carolina.
Greensboro, NC.
1990 "Latitudinarianism, Deism,
and the Age of Reason". Southern Conference on British Studies. New
Orleans.
1988 "Benjamin Whichcote and the
Latitudinarian Movement". North
American Council on British Studies. Philadelphia, PA.
1988 "English Latitudinarianism
and the Early Enlightenment".
Carolinas Symposium on British Studies.
Harrisonburg, PA.
1988 "John Tillotson and the
Latitudinarian Search for Salvation".
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Knoxville, TN.
1987 "Education, Locke, and
Latitudinarian Thought". New York
State Association of European Historians. Geneseo, NY.
1987 “Locke and the
Latitudinarians". NEH Conference on Late Seventeenth-Century British
Culture.
Clark Library,
UCLA. Los Angeles, CA.
Book
Reviews (since
1995)
2001 Evelyn Cruiskshanks, The
Glorious Revolution Anglican and Episcopal History.
1998 A. S. McGrade, Richard Hooker
and the Protestant Face of Anglicans and Nigel Atkinson, Richard Hooker
and the Authority of Scripture, Reason and Tradition Anglican and
Episcopal History.
Michael Questier, Conversion, Politics and
Religion in England, 1580-1625 Anglican and Episcopal History.
1997 Paul Zahl, The Protestant
Face of Anglicanism Anglican and Episcopal History.
Neal Wood, A Trumpet of Sedition: Political
Theory and the Rise of Capitalism Albion:
A Journal of British Studies.
1996 Nicholas Wolterstorff, John
Locke and the Ethics of Belief Anglican and Episcopal History.
Howard Nenner, The Right to Be King: The
Succession Question to the Crown of England Journal of the Association
of Historians in North Carolina.
Brian Ball, The Seventh-Day Men: Sabbatarians
in England and Wales and Christopher Marsh, The Family of Love in
English Society American Historical Review.
1995 John Walsh, ed., The Church
of England, 1689-1833 The Scriblerian.
V. C. Miller, The Lambeth Articles Anglican
and Episcopal History.
David Wootton, ed., Republicanism, Liberty
and Commercial Society, 1649-1776 Albion: A Journal of British Studies.
Memberships
World History Association
Southern Historical Association, European
Section
North Carolina Association of Historians