Abram Van EngenAbram Van Engen is Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. His articles have been published in multiple scholarly journals, as well as Avidly, Comment Magazine, Common-place, The Conversation, Humanities Magazine, Religin and Politics, Salon.com, and other venues. In 2012, he won the Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History. He is the author of Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow-Feeling in Early New England (2015) and City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism (2020). His research and writing have won a Benjamin F. Stevens Fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society, as well as a Faculty Fellowship and a Public Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read More Read Less