Dr. Douglas Bradburn, an award-winning author and well-known scholar of early American history, will be the featured speaker at the EPPS Leaders and Luminaries Lecture Series. His topic is Freedom of Religion: A View from the Founders.
The event is scheduled for Monday. April 24th at 6:30 p.m, in the ATC Lecture Hall, with a reception starting at 6:00 p.m. RSVP for “Leaders and Luminaries” here.
Leaders and Luminaries, sponsored by the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, brings leading practitioners and academics to UT Dallas to speak on prominent policy issues. Bradburn is the President and CEO of George Washington’s Mount Vernon, and the former Founding Director of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon.
Bradburn is the author of The Citizenship Revolution: Politics and the Creation of the American Union, 1774-1804, and three anthologies, including Early Modern Virginia: Reconsidering the Old Dominion. He is also the co-founder and editor of the award-winning book series, Early American Histories, at the University of Virginia Press, and the winner of numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including the Gilder Lehrman Research Fellowship at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello.
In addition, Bradburn is the recipient of five Telly awards for his work on animated documentaries for use in the classroom and a “Thea” award for the popular Be Washington interactive educational game. Dr. Bradburn has appeared on CSPAN, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, and was most recently featured in The History Channel’s docudrama, WASHINGTON.
Before joining Mount Vernon, Bradburn served as Chair of the History Department at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in history and economics from the University of Virginia.