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A Short Interview with Professor Andrew Pettegree
In commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the journal Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture will be releasing a volume specifically dedicated to the subject in December 2017. The interview below is the second of several that will feature authors of articles for this special issue. For this interview, we were fortunate…
Read MoreA Short Interview with Professor A.M. Walsham
In commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the journal Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture will be releasing a volume specifically dedicated to the subject in December 2017. The interview below is the first of several that will feature authors of articles for this special issue. For this first interview, we were…
Read MoreAssistant/Associate/Full Professor at Indiana University in in Race, Migration, and Indigeneity
The College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University (IU) Bloomington invites applications for a tenure-track position in Race, Migration, and Indigeneity (RMI), to begin Fall 2018. RMI is a pioneering multi-disciplinary unit that investigates the complex social dynamics of race, ethnicity, human movement, and power relationships. The primary geographical focus is the United States,…
Read MoreWhy Should Historians of Early Modernity, and Early Modern Religion Specifically, Blog? – Jacob M. Baum
I’d like to begin by responding to Joshua Smith’s fine introductory post, and tweak his question somewhat: why should historians of early modernity, and early modern religion specifically, blog? This is important to me because I’m an historian of late medieval and early modern Germany. I consider myself a cultural historian by training, and one…
Read MoreLake Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Official Announcement: https://philanthropy.iupui.edu/institutes/lake-institute/grants-scholarships/dissertation-application.html Lake Institute on Faith & Giving at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy will offer a one year doctoral dissertation fellowship of $25,000 for the academic year 2018-2019. This doctoral dissertation fellowship will be given to a graduate student whose research engages and intersects issues within religion and philanthropy or…
Read MoreWhy Historians Should Blog – Joshua Caleb Smith
Blogs. The very word causes a remarkable range of emotions from historians. Some are excited about the possibilities online outlets provide for them and their scholarship. Some furrow their brows at what must surely be a trend that will go the way of VHS and Pong. Others shiver in Luddite horror at the prospect of…
Read MoreJob Posting – Department of Religious Studies – University of Arizona
Official Announcement – https://uacareers.com/postings/20002 The Department of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona is seeking to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position in Catholic Studies. We seek a dynamic scholar and educator rooted in the academic field of Religious Studies, who will contribute to the nonsectarian, land-grant, and inclusive excellence mission of…
Read More"American Religious History: Belief and Society through Time" Seeking Contributors
Gary Scott Smith (gssmith@gcc.edu), retired chair of the Department of History at Grove City College, is looking for contributors to his encyclopedia. See the below message for details: I am editing a three volume encyclopedia for ABC-CLIO titled American Religious History: Belief and Society through Time. Its description is: Often controversial, religion has been an…
Read MoreWheaton 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…
Read MoreRegional 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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