Terence V. McIntosh

Candidate statement

Terence McIntosh (PhD, Yale University, 1989) teaches in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work focuses on early modern Germany, especially its social, religious, and intellectual history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His publications include Urban Decline in Early Modern Germany: Schwäbisch Hall and Its Region, 1650-1750 (Chapel Hill, 1997) and several articles and book chapters. His current project, “Disciplining the Parish: Godly Order, Enlightenment, and the Lutheran Clergy in Germany, 1517-1806,” examines the dynamics by which a shifting array of social, theological, and intellectual forces induced prominent churchmen, rulers, and secular thinkers to examine critically and recast significantly the purpose, scope, and nature of Lutheran church discipline at key moments in the early modern period. McIntosh has received research grants and fellowships from the DAAD, the National Humanities Center, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, the Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has participated in ten GSA conferences since 1996.