Dr. David L. Holmes, professor emeritus of Religious Studies, College of William & Mary, will lecture and sign his recently published book, The Faiths of the Postwar Presidents: From Truman to Obama.
A native of Detroit (Redford H.S.), he is the son of the former athletic director
at Wayne University (now Wayne State). Holmes is Walter G. Mason Professor of
Religious Studies Emeritus at the College of William and Mary. He received a
bachelor’s degree in English from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in
Religious Studies from Princeton University. He served both as an enlisted man
and as an officer in the United States Army. At William and Mary, Dr. Holmes has
won the Outstanding Faculty Award of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Graves
Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching, and the Society of the Alumni
Teaching Award. In 2006 he also received the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest
award given to an administrator or professor at William and Mary.
