Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

Clark Maddux earned his PhD in American Studies from Purdue University in 2001. Committed to student success and academic excellence, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses ranging from first year seminar to early American literature and philosophy. He is a volume editor of the Biblia Americana series, the first full-scale biblical commentary written in America, and has also been awarded with two colleagues in English and Communication a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore how the humanities can help us comprehend the experience of armed conflict.  Dr. Maddux currently serves on the executive boards of the Residential College Society and Collegiate Way International.  He is working on a book relating the history of residential colleges in America.