William Schultz is an historian of the modern United States, with a focus on the relationship between religion and politics. His dissertation, "Garden of the Gods: Colorado Springs and the Origins of the Culture Wars," explores this relationship through a close study of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Colorado Springs was the capital city of the culture wars of the 1980s and '90s. Home to dozens of evangelical Christian ministries, including the enormously influential Focus on the Family, the city was nicknamed "The Evangelical Vatican" for its significance to the Christian Right. My dissertation explores the economic factors that drew Christian organizations to Colorado Springs and the political factors that made the city so influential. But it also demonstrates the limits to the Christian Right's power, limits evident even in the movement's ostensible capital.

Schultz earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University and his B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.