Peter Dykema, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
History
Witherspoon Building Room 262
407 West Q Street
Russellville, AR 72801
Phone: 479-968-0453
Email: pdykema@atu.edu

 

Dr. Peter Dykema's teaching expertise encompasses the late medieval and early modern periods of European history (1300-1750) while his current research focuses on the education and training of the parish clergy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In his work, Dr. Dykema taking a comparative approach, looking for parallel lines and distinctive differences between the training of the late medieval catholic priest, the expectations laid upon the first Lutheran pastors, and the new demands faced by catholic clerics after the reforms of the Council of Trent. Dr. Dykema teaches both semesters of our World Civilizations sequence and upper-level courses on the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the history of Christianity. He offers the Senior Research Seminar and graduate courses on the Renaissance, Historiography, and the Reformation. Dr. Dykema has been at Arkansas Tech since 2001.

 

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