Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

Dr James Ungureanu

Honorary Research Fellow
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Historian in Residence, George L. Mosse Program in History
Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr James Ungureanu

Researcher biography

BA(Hons) (UCD), MA(magna cum laude) (TIU), PhD (UQ)

James C. Ungureanu has a BA in Religious Studies and Philosophy from the University of California-Davis, where he graduated in 2008. He also has a MA in Church History from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and a PhD in Studies in Religion from University of Queensland. He is Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at University of Queensland and Historian in Residence in the George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. An historian of science and religion, his research is mostly focused on nineteenth-century religious thought. He resides in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife and two children.

Book reviews and articles can be found on James's Academia site.

Publications

Journal Articles (6)
Conference Papers (2)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Ungureanu, James C. (2021). “Your god is too small”: retracing the origins of conflict between science and religion. Theology and Science, 20 (1), 23-45. doi: 10.1080/14746700.2021.2012916
Ungureanu, James C. (2019). Science and religion in the Anglo-American periodical press, 1860-1900: A failed reconciliation. Church History, 88 (1), 120-149. doi: 10.1017/S0009640719000532
Ungureanu, James C. (2017). Review of THOMAS A. HOWARD and MARK A. NOLL, eds.: Protestantism after 500 Years. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2016; pp. 384.. Journal of Religious History, 41 (4), 571-573. doi: 10.1111/1467-9809.12475
Ungureanu, James C. (2015). A Yankee at Oxford: John William Draper at the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford, 30 June 1860. Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 70 (2), 135-140. doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2015.0053
Ungureanu, James C. (2015). Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity. Zygon, 50 (2), 548-550. doi: 10.1111/zygo.12181
Ungureanu, James C. (2015). The Age of Scientific Naturalism: Tyndall and His Contemporaries. Zygon, 50 (1), 248-251. doi: 10.1111/zygo.12147

Conference Papers

Ungureanu, James (2014). J.W. Draper, dynamical physiology, and the law of progress. Historical Explanation: Contingency, Convergence, and Teleology Conference, Oxford, United Kindom, 17-19 July 2014.
Ungureanu, James (2014). Demystifying conflict: John William Draper and the conflict between religion and science. Religious History Association 2014 Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 7-11 July 2014.

Thesis

Ungureanu, James C. (2017). The Origins of the 'Conflict Thesis': Draper, White, and the Protestant Tradition. PhD Thesis, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.773