Academics

Meet the Faculty

Bryan Givens
Assistant Professor of History

Division: Humanities/Teacher Education Division
Office: Cultural Arts Center (CAC) 103c
Phone: (310) 506-4533
Fax: (310) 506-7307
E-mail: bryan.givens@pepperdine.edu

• Ph.D., Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
• M.A., Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999
• B.A., Spanish, Texas Tech University, 1996

Courses:

• Ancient History
• Medieval History
• The Renaissance
• The Reformation and Counter-Reformation
• The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
• The French Revolution and Napoleon
• Early Modern Europe
• Spanish History
• The European Witch-Hunt

Key Awards/Affiliations:

• Fulbright Researcher, Portugal, 2001-2002
• Robert I. Burns Lecturer in Iberian History, UCLA, 2003
• American Historical Association
• Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

Academic Interests:

• Early Modern Popular Religion
• Early Modern Social and Cultural History
• Early Modern Spain and Portugal
• Millenarianism and Messianism
• The Inquisition