Biography

Donald J. Harreld has been a member of the History Department since 2001, and is also a member of the European Studies faculty. Professor Harreld is the Executive Director of the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, and international academic organization. In Spring/Summer 2005, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Urban and Cultural History at University of Antwerp (Belgium). Before joining BYU’s faculty, Professor Harreld taught at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and at the University of Minnesota. Harreld is the author of the book, High Germans in the Low Countries: German Merchants and Commerce in Golden Age Antwerp (Brill, 2004), and several articles on subjects that include the social and economic history of the Low Countries, the Dutch Revolt, and early modern merchant culture. His current research projects include a book-length study of early seventeenth-century Dutch circumnavigations, and broader research into early modern commercial networks. Professor Harreld teaches courses in European economic history, the age of discovery/expansion of Europe, European revolutions, and early modern history.

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