Lehigh Affiliations

• Global Studies
• History

Areas of Research

• Atlantic World and European History
• Britain
• British Empire
• Early Modern Europe
• Eighteenth Century Studies
• Global Development and Social Change
• Historical Studies
• History and Literature
• Political Science
• Religious Traditions

Profile

Bill Bulman is an historian of Britain and its empire who teaches in both History and Global Studies at Lehigh.  His interdisciplinary research focuses on politics, religion, and culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  He has published articles on political decision-making and the politics of theater in Past and Present and The Journal of British Studies.  His first book project is a re-interpretation of early Enlightenment culture and religious politics in the later Stuart period.   He is also currently at work on a second major project that examines the rise of majoritarian politics in the representative institutions of the British Atlantic world.