Richard Godbeer

Dr. Richard Godbeer is the Charles W. Battey Distinguished Professor of History and the Director of the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas. Dr. Godbeer received his BA form Oxford University in 1984 and his PhD from Brandeis University in 1989. He has held teaching positions at the University of California Riverside, the University of Miami, and Virginia Commonwealth University. As a historian of witchcraft, religion, gender, and sexuality in early America, Godbeer has written six books, including The Devil’s Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England, The Salem Witch Hunt: A Brief History with Documents, and Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692.