Dr. Joseph T. Stuart grew up in rural Michigan and received his doctorate in Modern Intellectual History from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He now heads the History program at the University of Mary but has also taught history in Canada and Rome. His travels and previous work in onion farming and land surveying have shaped his interest in the agricultural basis of human culture. In addition, Dr. Stuart’s scholarly interests concern the relation between religion and culture in modern history. He enjoys studying how that relationship is seen particularly through the phenomena of secular religions and the way these can serve as temporary ideological replacements for a religious vision in a society. His research has focused on the spiritual and cultural effects of World War I in Great Britain and the wider Western world during the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the work of the English historian of culture Christopher Dawson.