Grant Brodrecht
Grant Brodrecht
History Teacher
Grant Brodrecht currently teaches American Government and has been teaching at Geneva since 2006. He previously taught US History, American Social Thought and Experience: Government and Economics, Western Civilization II, Ancient Greek History, and various elective courses in American history and developed and directed the Geneva Capstone Senior Thesis program. While at Geneva, he has received the Headmaster’s Award and the Paideia Award for Teaching Excellence.
Grant’s areas of interest are in political, intellectual, and religious history, which are reflected in his education and experience. He holds MA and PhD degrees in American history from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under George Marsden and was a Pew Younger Scholar; while there, he also served as assistant to the director of graduate studies in the history department. In addition, Grant earned an MA in church history from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he was a President’s Scholar. Prior to that he earned a BA from the University of Northern Iowa, double majoring in history and philosophy. In addition to teaching at Geneva, he has taught courses at the University of Notre Dame, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Belhaven University. He is the author of Our Country: Northern Evangelicals and the Union During the Civil War Era, which is part of Fordham University Press’s series The North’s Civil War, and he has written book reviews for the Florida Historical Quarterly, The History Teacher, The Journal of Southern History, and Civil War History. Furthermore, he has spoken at the Organization of American Historians’ annual meeting and at the Conference on Faith and History.
Grant also possesses a diverse non-academic background. He served twenty years as an electronics technician in the US Navy and Navy Reserve, during which time he was named Sailor of the Year once and Sailor of the Quarter on two occasions. He has held numerous odd jobs over the years, which include working as a convenience store clerk, sorting letters for the US Post Office, assembling and repairing electronics equipment, filling department store catalog orders, and sorting packages and working in management for United Parcel Service.
The husband of Kelli and the father of five—all of whom graduated from The Geneva School—and the grandfather of six, Grant loves Florida summers, enjoys an occasional India Pale Ale, has been a passionate fan of the Chicago Blackhawks, Cubs, and Bears since the early 1970s, and still loves to play hockey in his spare time.
Grant is an ordained priest in the Anglican Province of America and serves as sub-dean at St. Alban’s Anglican Cathedral in Oviedo.
