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Courses taught 2009/2010:
HIS105 Development of Western Civilization
HIS221 Canadian History: Pre-confederation
HIS222 Canadian History: Post-confederation
HIS312 Totalitarianism in 20th century
HIS357 Middle East Since 600
HIS411 Church History Reading Seminar |
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2009), McMaster University
Dissertation: "The Survival and Decline of the Evangelical Identity of the United Church of Canada, 1930-1971."
M.A. (2004), History, University of Western Ontario
B.A. (2003), Economics, University of Waterloo
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Protestantism in Canada
- Secularization and religious change in Western societies
- Social and cultural change in Canada since 1945
CURRENT RESEARCH
Dr. Flatt is currently revising his doctoral thesis, “The Survival and Decline of the Evangelical Identity of the United Church of Canada, 1930-1971,” with a view to publication of this research in book form. He is also working together with researchers from Wilfrid Laurier University and Trent University on a study of the effectiveness of a recent national advertising campaign of the United Church
RESEARCH FUNDING
"A Mainline Minority: Evangelical Renewal Groups within the United Church of Canada, 1966-2009", funded by Centre for Research on Canadian Evangelicalism, 2009-2010
Canada Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005-2008
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Flatt, Kevin. "Theological Innovation from Spiritual Experience: Henry Alline's Anti-Calvinism in Late Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia and New England." Journal of Religious History 33:3 (September 2009).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Conference on Faith and History