Thomas Kidd

Associate Professor of History, Baylor University
ISR Resident Fellow
Co-Director, Program on Historical Studies of Religion

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Thomas Kidd is associate professor of history at Baylor University. His latest book "American Christians and Islam" was published November 2008 by Princeton University Press. Additional recent books include "The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America", published by Yale in 2007 and "The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents, with Bedford Books in 2007. He is also writing "God and Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution," and "Patrick Henry: A Biography", both to be published by Basic Books.

Kidd teaches courses on colonial America, the American Revolution, and American religious history. He was selected for the 2004-05 Young Scholars in American Religion program, won a 2006-07 NEH Fellowship, and won a 2004 NEH Summer Stipend. Kidd came to Baylor University in 2002 after completing a Ph.D. in history at the University of Notre Dame, where he worked with the historian of religion, George Marsden. He received a B.A. and M.A. at Clemson University. He and his wife Ruby have two sons, Jonathan and Joshua.