FACULTY - Jacqueline R deVries
Associate Professor
Jacqueline deVries received a B.A. from Calvin College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1996). She has taught at Augsburg for 8 years and currently serves as Department Chair. She has also served as Augsburg's Coordinator of Women's Studies, and is now the Director the Women's Studies Program of the Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities (ACTC).
Her courses cover a range of topics in 19th and 20th century European social and cultural history (see list below.) Her research is focused primarily on British cultural life in the early 20th century. She is currently revising a book-length manuscript titled “A New Heaven and Earth: Feminism and Religion in Great Britain, 1880-1930,” which explores the relationship between women's emancipation in Britain and the changing place of religion in modern public and private life. Her essays on women and religion, the suffrage movement, and World War I have appeared in a variety of collections, including Women Preachers and Prophets in Christian Traditions, ed. Beverly Kienzle and Pamela Walker (1998), Borderlines: Gender Identities in Peace and War, ed. Billie Melman (1998), and Reader's Guide to British History, ed. David Loades (2002). Her review essays have appeared in Clio, The Historian, Victorian Studies, and North Dakota History.
In her leisure hours, Jacqueline likes to cook French and Italian food, raise heirloom vegetables and flowers, read novels, and train for 10K races.
