Interview With Mead Prize Winner Christina Davidson

2019’s Sidney E. Mead prize for best unpublished article from dissertation research of advanced graduate student or recent PhD went to Christina Davidson. Now a postdoc at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, her “Redeeming Santo Domingo: North Atlantic Missionaries and the Racial Conversion of a Nation” is included in our latest…

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New Scholar Essay Prize for Catholic Studies in the Americas

The Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies invites applications for its first annual competition for the New Scholar Essay Prize for Catholic Studies in the Americas. We invite the submission of essays penned by new scholars–Ph.D. or Th.D. awarded no earlier than 2013–and offering cutting edge research about Catholics and Catholicism in North,…

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Two Teaching Assistant Professorships, Oklahoma State University (11/7)

The Religious Studies program at Oklahoma State University invites applications for two faculty positions at the level of Teaching Assistant Professor (career-track renewable contract) beginning August 2019.  Ph.D. in Religious Studies or related discipline at time of employment and some teaching experience required.  Areas of specialization must include at least one of the following:  Hebrew…

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Wheaton College Tenure-Track Job – Deadline 10/9/17

The History Department of Wheaton College (IL) seeks to appoint a tenure-track, assistant professor in History of American Christianity beginning August 2018. Ph.D. required. Candidates should have a secondary field. Secondary fields can be thematic (such as gender, economic or business, labor), regional (excluding Europe) or methodological (such as digital humanities, pedagogy). Standard teaching load…

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Regional Late Antiquity Consortium Southeast Workshop: October 19-20, 2017

The Program in Classical and Mediterranean Studies and the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University are pleased to announce the program for the 2017 meeting of ReLACS (Regional Late Antiquity Consortium Southeast), a regional workshop on Late Antiquity to be held October 19-20, 2017. The workshop is free and open to all interested scholars. Highlights of the…

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A Short Interview with Professor Adrian Weimer

Adrian Weimer is a historian of colonial America and early modern religion and politics at Providence College. Her research focuses on the history of toleration, martyrdom and Protestant historical imagination, Calvinist resistance theory, the history of spirituality, and Protestant-Catholic relations. Her most recent publications include “Elizabeth Hooton and the Lived Politics of Toleration in Massachusetts…

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A Short Interview with Bradley Kime

Bradley Kime is a doctoral student in Religious Studies and Jefferson Fellow at the University of Virginia. We thank Bradley for taking the time out of his schedule to answer a few questions for us about his upcoming article in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, which is titled, “Infidel Deathbeds: Irreligious Dying and…

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