Emily Conroy-Krutz is a historian of nineteenth-century America specializing in global history of the early American republic. She has particular interests in American ideas about empire and the international dimensions of American religion and reform.  Her first book, Converting the World in the Early Republic: Christian Imperialism and American Foreign Missions (Cornell, 2015) focuses on the American foreign mission movement and American imperialism.  She has written articles on empire in the early republic, the Anglo-American relations in the American missionary entry into India, international dimensions of 19th-century reform, and the female seminary movement.  Her current research focuses on the connections between foreign missions and foreign relations in 19th-century America.

Research

Christian Imperialism
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Teaching

At Michigan State University, I teach courses on American women's history, colonial America, the American Revolution, the US and the world, religion in American politics, and social science approaches to American history.