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Education Ph.D.,
University of California at Berkeley, 1992
Major advisor: Leon Litwack
BA, Oklahoma Baptist University, 1983
Books Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Click on link above, do title search under "redeeming the south" in the search box. Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005). Jesus in Red, White, and Black (co-authored with Edward J. Blum, under contract with University of North Carolina Press) Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South (to be delivered as Lamar Lectures in Southern History, November 2008, and published by University of Georgia Press) A History of African American Religion (in progress, to be published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2010) Edited
Volumes Themes in Religion and American Culture , eds. Paul Harvey and Philip Goff (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2004). The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1945, ed. Paul Harvey and Philip Goff (Columbia University Press, 2005). The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2009) Sources in Religion and American Culture (work of primary documents ongoing with for University of North Carolina Press) Project Underway Religion, Race, and American Ideas of Freedom: From the 17th Century to the Present (advance contract signed with Yale University Press). This
work will explore the long and complex relationship between the struggle for
human and civil rights in American history, the legacy of race and racism, and
the complicated role of religious institutions and religiously-motivated
individuals in this struggle. In struggling to worship freely, create
religious institutions, practice rites and customs handed down from tradition,
and appeal to God as the author and guarantor of equality, Americans of
diverse ethnic backgrounds have challenged and
redefined the fundamental bases of citizenship. |
ARTICLES, ENCYCLOPEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS "Freedom Song," Books and Culture, July - August 2008, 31-2. "Black Protestants: An Historiographical Appraisal," in New Perspectives on American Denominations, ed. Keith Harper (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, forthcoming) "The Country Gospel," in Gulf South Historical Review 21 (Fall 2005): 49-56 "The Strangely Ordinary Career of Freedom's Coming," Journal of Southern Religion, 2006, online at http://jsr.fsu.edu " 'That Was About Equalization After Freedom': Southern Evangelicalism and the Politics of Reconstruction and Redemption, 1861-1900," in Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2005), 73-93. "At Ease in Zion, Uneasy in Babylon: The Evangelical Belt," in Religion and Public Life in the South: In the Evangelical Mode, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and Mark Silk (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), 63-79. "Religion," in Rebecca Mark and Rob Vaughan, eds., The South: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004), 407-38. "Race, Gender, and Southern Baptist Identity Politics," in Southern Baptists at the Millennium: Identity, Orthodoxy, Cooperation, ed. Greg Wills (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming). "Religion, Race, and the Right in the South, 1945-1990," in Religion and Politics in the South Since World War Two, ed. Glenn Feldman (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005), 101-25. " 'God and Negroes and Jesus and Sin and Salvation': Racism, Racial Interchange, and Interracialism in Southern Religious History," in Religion in the American South: Protestants and Others in History and Culture, ed. Donald Mathews and Beth Barton Schweiger (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 283-329. "The Bible and the Evangelical South," in Coming Home: Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004). " 'The Color of Skin Was Almost Forgotten': Biracialism in the Twentieth-Century Southern Religious Experience," in Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century, ed. Winfred B. Moore et al. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003), 159-180 " 'A Servant of Servants Shall He Be': The Construction of Race in American Religious Mythologies," in Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction, ed. Craig R. Prentiss (New York: New York University Press, 2003), 13-27. "Richard Henry Boyd: Black Business and Religion in the Jim Crow South," for Nina Mjagkij, ed., Portraits of African American Life Since 1865 (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 2003), 51-68. "Religion in the American South Since the Civil War," in A Companion to the American South, ed. John Boles (Blackwell Publishers, 2001), 387-406. "Proselytization," in Paul Harvey and Phil Goff., eds., Themes in Religion and American Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004). "Saints but Not Subordinates: The Woman's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention," in Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism, eds. Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and Virginia Brereton (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001), 1-28. "These Untutored Masses: The Campaign for Respectability Among White and Black Evangelicals in the American South, 1870-1930," Journal of Religious History 21 (October 1997): 302-17. " 'Yankee Faith' and Southern Redemption: White Southern Baptist Ministers, 1850-1890," in Religion and the American Civil War, eds. Charles Reagan Wilson, Randall Miller, and Harry Stout (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 167-86. "Sweet Homes, Sacred Blues, Religious Identities: Studying Religion, Race, and Culture in the American South," Religious Studies Review 23 (July 1997): 231-38. "The Ideal of Professionalism and the White Southern Baptist Ministry, 1870-1920," Religion and American Culture 5 (Winter 1995): 99-123 "Sweet Home Alabama: Southern Culture and the American Search for Community," Southern Cultures 3 (Spring 1995): 321-34. " 'The Holy Spirit Come to Us and Forbid the Negro Taking a Second Place': Richard H. Boyd and Black Religious Activism in Nashville, Tennessee," Tennessee Historical Quarterly 55 (Fall 1996): 190-201. "Southern Baptists and the Social Gospel: White Religious Progressivism in the South, 1900-1925," Fides et Historia 27 (Summer 1995): 59-77. "Thoroughly Centered: The Reformed Tradition and American Religious History," Reviews in American History 23 (September 1995): 421-26 "The Politicization of White and Black Southern Baptist Missionaries, 1880-1930," American Baptist Quarterly 13 (September 1994): 204-220 "Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Expansion of Evangelical Protestantism," Crossroads: A Journal of Southern Studies 2 (Fall 1993/Winter 1994): 18-26. "The Importance of Being Elvis: Fame, Religion, and the Color Line in 1950s America," Cresset, March 1995. "Dixies, Yams, and Shreves: Why the Zeitgeist Has Moved to the South," Cresset (October 1994): 5-11. "Wifely Submission," Christian Century, June 17 and 24, 1998, 31-33 (co-authored with R. Marie Griffith). "Freedom Songs and the Civil Rights Movement," introductory article and primary documents for Religions of the United States in Practice, ed. Colleen McDannell (Princeton University Press, 2001), volume II, 90-103. "African American Spirituals," introductory article and primary documents for Religions of the United States in Practice, ed. Colleen McDannell (Princeton University Press, 2001), vol. I, 138-150. "The Christian Doctrine of Slavery," introductory article and primary documents for Religions of the United States in Practice, ed. Colleen McDannell (Princeton University Press, 2001), volume I, 466-483. "Social Activism," encyclopedia article for new edition of Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris (University of North Carolina Press). "Charles Harrison Mason," encyclopedia article for Encyclopedia of Mississippi History (University of Mississippi Press, forthcoming 2005). 5 encyclopedia articles for Carroll Van West, ed., Encyclopedia of Tennessee History (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998). (1000 words each) 6 encyclopedia articles for Nina Magjski, ed., Encyclopedia of African-American Associations (ranging from 250 words to 1000 words) 4 encyclopedia articles for Encyclopedia of Protestantism, ed. Hans Hillberbrand (Routledge Press)--articles of 1000 words on "General Baptists," "Primitive Baptists," "National Primitive Baptist Convention"; article of 3000 words on "David Friedrich Strauss." Online Study Component, to accompany course based on the text Unfinished Nation and accompanying video-- authored discussions questions, multiple choice exams, questions to accompany audio component, and activities section for the tele-course, offered at high schools, community colleges, and universities across the country, working with Intelecom Inc. Test-Item File, computerized bank of test questions composed to accompany Leon Litwack and Winthrop Jordan, The United States: A History (Prentice Hall, various editions). 200 pages of essay, multiple choice, and true-false questions, 30 questions per chapter. COURSES TAUGHT, 1989-2002 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT COLORADO SPRINGS (1996 to present)
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES: Summer Stipend Research Award ($8,000), awarded 2008 for research on book Religion, Race, and American Ideas of Freedom Full-year faculty research fellowship, 1999-2000, for work on book Freedom's Coming: Religion, Race, and Culture in the South, 1860-2000 LAMAR LECTURER IN SOUTHERN HISTORY, MERCER UNIVERSITY, 2008 Named to deliver the Lamar Lectures in Southern History, Mercer University, 2008; lectures will be published by Mercer University Press CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE, IUPUI, INDIANAPOLIS Chosen as one of two Senior Co-Leaders of the Young Scholars in American Religion group for 2008-2010, including charge to co-lead five seminars over two years with a group of ten pre-tenured scholars on teaching and research in the field of American religious history COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH AND CREATIVE WORKS, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO Research Fellowship, $4,250, 2005-2007, for work on book Religion, Race, and American Ideas of Freedom LOUISVILLE INSTITUTE Research Fellowship, $8,000, 2006-2008, for work on book Religion, Race, and American Ideas of Freedom OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARD, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO Named Outstanding Teacher at the
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Spring 2008, award of
$3,000 Named recipient of campus-wide award for Excellence in Research, certificate and award of $4,000, University of Colorado, 2006 OUTSTANDING TEACHER AWARD, COLLEGE OF LETTERS, ARTS, AND SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO Named 2007 recipient of
Outstanding Teacher award, College of LAS Named 2006 recipient for outstanding work in research and creative work, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIVIDUAL Research fellowship of $6,000 for archival travel and research in support of book project Religion, Race, and American Ideas of Freedom BAYLOR ORAL HISTORY INSTITUTE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Research fellowship for $3,000 for research in the Texas Collection archives and Oral History Institute Archives at Baylor University, Spring 2003 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FELLOWSHIP $1000 to support one month at archival research at the University of Wisconsin Library, 2003 VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES, University of Virginia Semester fellowship in residence, spring 2001, for research and public conversations in the humanities GILDER-LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY, New York City $2500 research grant for work at Oral History Research Office, Columbia University COLORADO ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES: $2,958 awarded to support public lecture/dialogue series "African-American History and Culture at the Millennium," at CU-Colorado Springs, Spring 2000. PRESIDENT'S
FUND FOR THE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF DIVERSE FACULTY,
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $5000 awarded to support opportunity hire proposal for recruitment of professor in African and Islamic Studies, resulting in a hire for 2002-2003 school year in this field at CU-Colorado Springs PRESIDENT'S FUND FOR THE HUMANITIES: Lead grant writer for $2,800 to support public lecture/dialogue series "Ordinary Men: The Holocaust and History," featuring guest speaker Christopher Browning, CU-Colorado Springs, Fall 2004. Lead grant writer for $4,400 to support public lecture/dialogue series "The Visual and the Popular in History." Funded lecture and workshop series to be held at CU-Colorado Springs, Fall 2002, featuring David Morgan (Valparaiso University) and Grace Elizabeth Hale (University of Virginia) lecturing on the use of visual evidence and popular cultural artifacts in historical study. Lead grant writer for $3500 to
support public series "Religion, Race, and Culture: Three
Studies," held at CU-Colorado Springs, fall 2002, featuring
guest lecturers Joel Martin (UC Riverside), Tracy Fessenden
(Arizona State University), and Kim Searcy (Oberlin), lecturing
on Native American, African American, and Islamic religious
history. Lead grant writer for $5,000 awarded to support public lecture/dialogue series, "African-American History and Culture at the Millennium," at CU-Colorado Springs and CU-Boulder, Spring 2000, featuring lecturers Leon Litwack, Waldo Martin, and Yvonne Chireau Lead grant writer for $2000 awarded to support public lecture series "New Directions in American Religious History," at CU-Colorado Springs, Fall 2000, featuring lecturers Philip Goff and Jualynne Dodson Lead grant writer for $3000 to support photographic exhibition and accompanying lecture "Photographic Images of American Religion from the Farm Security Administration," Spring 2002, University of Colorado. CHANGING THE LEARNING PARADIGM THROUGH TECHNOLOGY: $14,630 from University of Colorado, for use of technology in instruction, purchase of CD-ROMS and software, and creation of departmental Web page (one of 13 system-wide), 1996-1997, and $12,308 for continuation of work 1998-1999 CU ONLINE INCENTIVE GRANT $5000 for payment to Real Education for development of online internet course "War and Twentieth Century American Society," taught Spring 1998. BEST PRACTICES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO University of Colorado, award given spring 2001 for contributions to teaching and learning at UCCS campus FACULTY TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT AWARD $2500 for mentoring faculty colleagues in use of technology for teaching, summer 1998. COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH AND CREATIVE WORK, UNIV. OF COLORADO $5000 from University of Colorado for research on 3rd book project, 2005 $4971 from University of Colorado for summer research on 2nd book project, 1998 $4250 from University of Colorado for summer research on 2nd book project, 1997 JACKSON FELLOWS GRANT, COLORADO COLLEGE $1600 for archival research in documents pertaining to Religion in the Southwest, for inclusion in book project Religion in the U.S. 1945-2000: A History in Documents AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION RESEARCH GRANT $1500 for travel to research at the Amistad Research Center in African-American History, Tulane University, New Orleans, Fall 1998 WOMEN'S STUDIES GRANT, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO $500 for travel to deliver scholarly lectures in England and Ireland, 2008-07-24 $195 for purchase of research materials, Summer 2002 $250 for purchase of research materials, Summer 2001 $500 for purchase of research materials, Summer 2000 $600 for research assistance and purchase of materials for history department, 1998 TEACHING ENHANCEMENT GRANT, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO $300 for purchase of CD-ROM teaching materials, 1999 $500 for curricular innovations and purchase of materials, 2000 WOMEN'S STUDIES RESEARCH GRANT, DUKE UNIVERSITY $800 from Duke University for travel and research at Special Collections Library, Duke University (1 of 9 nationally), 1997 "BEHIND THE VEIL" PROJECT, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY, DUKE UNIVERSITY $500 to support travel to Duke University for research in oral histories of the "Behind the Veil" project (oral histories of African American life in the Jim Crow South), August 2001 WOMEN AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY PROTESTANTISM PROJECT $3400 for research and work on article for forthcoming book (1 of 9 nationally) NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 1. Summer Seminar "Teaching the History of the Civil Rights Movement," W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, June 20 - July 25, 1998. (1 of 25) 2. Summer Seminar "Religion and Diversity in American Society," Haverford College, July 9 - August 15, 1996 (1 of 23 nationally) 3. Summer Seminar "Religious Traditions of the South," University of Mississippi, 1992 (1 of 12 nationally) LOUISVILLE INSTITUTE $8000, Summer research grants in 1993 and 1996 for work on 1st and 2nd book projects (1 of 9 nationally) YOUNG SCHOLARS IN AMERICAN RELIGION Named to select group of ten recent Ph.Ds in field of American religious history, convening four times over two years (1994-96) at Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indianapolis, for consultation on teaching and research in field. PEW PROGRAM IN RELIGION AND AMERICAN HISTORY $32,000 full-year Faculty Fellowship awarded by Yale University for completion of 1st book (1 of 6 nationally); and $4000 awarded for summer research, 1994. LILLY FELLOWS PROGRAM IN HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS $31,000 awarded in 1993-94 and 1994-95 for teaching postdoctoral fellowship at Valparaiso University (1 of 3 nationally) TORBET PRIZE Awarded by American Baptist Quarterly for best article published in 1993 FACULTY EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR ADVANCING TEACHING AND LEARNING THROUGH TECHNOLOGY UCCS Campus Nominee for system-wide award, 1999 FACULTY PARTNERSHIP GRANTS, CU-COLORADO SPRINGS, 2001 and 2003 Two faculty partnership grants, $2000 each, to mentor and partner with colleague in another discipline to redo course syllabus and integrate teaching with technology into courses. BOOK
REVIEWS AND REFEREE WORK REVIEWER OF BOOK AND ARTICLE MANUSCRIPTS FOR: Journal of Southern History Journal of Southern Religion Religion and American Culture Journal of American History American Historical Review The Historian Agricultural History Arkansas Historical Quarterly Mercer University Press Oxford University Press University of North Carolina Press University of Tennessee Press University Press of Kentucky University of California Press Routledge Press Houghton-Mifflin Publishers (for textbooks) Longman Publishers (for textbooks) Bedford
Books (for textbooks) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SERVICE Memberships American Historical Association American Academy of Religion Southern Historical Association (serve on membership and program committees)American Society of Church History Organization of American HistoriansAmerican Society of Church History Board of Editors Journal of Southern Religion, at http://www.jsr.as.wvu.edu Religion Compass Membership Committee: Southern Historical Association, 1999-present; Chair of Committee, 2007-2008 Program Committee: Southern Historical Association, 2001, 2007 Panelist: Reviewer for National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Applications, 2001 Reviewer: Fellowship Applications for the American Council of Learned Societies, 2007 and 2008 SERVICE RECORD AT UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
ACADEMIC REFERENCES Leon Litwack James Gregory Department of History Department of History University of California at Berkeley University of Washington Berkeley, CA 94720 Seattle, WA 9810 Jon Butler Stephen Prothero Whitney Humanities Center Department of Religion 53 Wall Street, Rm 320 Boston University Box 208298 145 Bay State Rd, Suite 204 Yale University Boston, MA 02215 New Haven,
CT 06520 Tracy Fessenden Philip Goff Department of Religious Studies Director, Center for Study of Religion and Culture Arizona State University IUPUI Mail Code
3104 425 Univ.
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