Paul Douglas Lockhart has been teaching history at Wright State since 1989, when he completed his Ph.D. under the direction of Gunther E. Rothenberg at Purdue University. Although his research centers around the political and constitutional history of early modern Scandinavia, with an emphasis on pre-absolutist Denmark, he has also taught courses on the Thirty Years’ War, the “Wars of Religion” in France and the Netherlands, warfare in the early modern period, and a variety of other topics on early modern and modern Europe.

Dr. Lockhart is currently at work on two book-length projects: a survey history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Denmark (Denmark 1513-1660: The Rise and Decline of a Limited Monarchy), to be published by Oxford University Press in 2006; and a study of the notorious “judicial murder” of the Danish priest Søren Jensen Quist in 1626. Dr. Lockhart has resided in Denmark as “visiting lecturer” (gæstelektor) at the Institut for Historie, Kultur og Samfundsbeskrivelse, Odense Universitet, in 1997, and was named National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York/College at Potsdam during the fall semester 2000. He has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the American-Scandinavian Foundation.

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BOOKS

Denmark in the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State (Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 1996).

Sweden in the Seventeenth Century (European History in Perspective series, edited by Jeremy Black; London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

Frederik II and the Protestant Cause. Denmark’s Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559-1596 (The Northern World series, edited by David Kirby; Leiden: Brill, 2004).

SELECTED ARTICLES

“Political Language and Wartime Propaganda in Denmark, 1625-1629.” European History Quarterly 31 (2001): 5-42.

“Dansk propaganda under Kejserkrigen, 1625-29.” Historie (Efterår 1998): 222-48.

“Religion and Princely Liberties. Denmark’s Intervention in the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1625.” The International History Review 17(1995): 1-22.

“Denmark and the Empire: A Reassessment of Danish Foreign Policy under King Christian IV, 1596-1648.” Scandinavian Studies 62 (1992): 390-416.

“Danish Interwar Politics and the Defence Law of 1937.” War and Society 7 (1989): 54-70.

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