Areas of interest
global history, history of religion, history of ideas and emotions
Dr. Clossey's research program seeks to spotlight, and challenge, the modernist and Eurocentric values and assumptions that underlie our common sense today. Rather than reinforce our current sensibilities, his work argues for the use of history--especially pre-colonial, traditional, Indigenous, and non-Enlightenment histories--as a source of "new" old solutions to contemporary problems.
鈥淭he Unbelieved and Historians鈥� argues for taking spiritual beings seriously as historical actors, while 鈥淚t's A Small World After All鈥� advances a historical geography that goes beyond the West. His "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind" book is now available for free download. He is currently working on projects about academic humour and on contemporary Buddhism鈥檚 turning to ancient India to develop 鈥渘ew鈥� old pathways to well-being.
Biography
Born at the edge of the Colorado Desert, Luke Clossey has studied and taught world history for the last decade, near the San Francisco Bay, the Danube, and the Yellow Sea. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, awarded him the doctorate in history in 2004 for his dissertation on early Jesuit networks linking Germany, Mexico, and China. He joined the 51猎奇入口History Department later that year.
Courses
Future courses may be subject to change.
