Associate Professor of History
On faculty since 2001
706.419.1627
Richard.Follett@covenant.edu
Faculty Website
Education
Ph.D., Washington University, 1996
M.A., Washington University, 1992
B.A., Arizona State University, 1986
Professional Interests
My teaching responsibilities at Covenant College include the European history survey and upper division European history courses, as well as the history of modern political theory. My special areas of interest include crime and the law in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, Evangelicalism and nineteenth-century British politics, imperialism and culture, and European integration since 1945. I am currently working on a biography of the British law reformer and anti-slavery activist Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1845), who succeeded William Wilberforce as leader of the abolitionist movement in the 1820s.
Personal Interests
Although teaching and research demand a lot of time during the school year, I am actively involved in adult recreational soccer, supporting my wife and our three daughters in various activities, and in following local political and social issues. I served as deacon in a PCA church in St. Louis prior to moving to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and in fall 2007 my family started attending Highlands Presbyterian Church in Lafayette, Georgia.
Covenant Activities
I currently serve the campus as Pre-Law Advisor and have been active on the Academic Standards Committee of the Faculty since fall of 2002. In the past I have served as advisor to the Student Senate and also to the Kaleo Center, but am currently very active as coordinator of the Christian Mind course for new Covenant students. I have also served on several ad hoc committees for the Faculty and the Administration of the College.
Professional Membership
- American Historical Association
- North American Conference on British Studies
- Western Conference on British Studies
Recent Publications
"After Emancipation: Thomas Fowell Buxton and Evangelical Politics in the 1830s," in Parliamentary History, Vol. 27, Issue 1 (February 2008), 119-129.
Review of John Wolffe, The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney, Vol. 2 of A History of Evangelicalism, ed. David W. Bebbington and Mark Noll. In Fide et Historia, forthcoming.
Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law Reform in England, 1808-30. London: Palgrave Press. 2001.
"Sir Noël Coward," "C.S. Lewis" and "J.R.R. Tolkien." Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, 1914-2000. John Powell, ed. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Publishing. 2004.
"William Wilberforce." Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914. John Powell, ed. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Publishing. 2001.