Assistant Professor of History, Britain and British Empire – Baylor University
Subfield: Religion Application Deadline: October 1, 2022 Description Baylor University seeks an Assistant Professor of Britain and British Empire to start August 2023. The Department of History seeks a specialist in the history of Britain and British Empire, subfield in religion preferred, to teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in this area. The successful candidate…
Read MoreCall for Contributions – “Religions,” Special Issue on World Christianity
The journal, Religions, is seeking article submissions for a special issue on the topic of “World Christianity in History and in Culture.” Submission Deadline: September 30, 2022 Description Woven together like finely crafted fabric, world Christianity, history, and culture are always tightly interlaced. Historians realize that all Christians exist in a dynamic web of cultural and…
Read MoreVirtual Faculty Seminar: Theological Encounters of Race, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust in Transatlantic Context
June 17-24, 2022 – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Applications due April 18, 2022 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum announces the call for applications for the 2022 Annual Faculty Seminar on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust entitled “Theological Encounters of Race, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust in Transatlantic Context.” This year’s Seminar will examine…
Read MoreInterview with Dr. Christopher Bonura – 2020 Mead Prize Recipient
In this interview, we sat down with Dr. Christopher Bonura (PhD, UC Berkley) to discuss his recent Church History article, “Eusebius of Caesarea, the Roman Empire, and the Fulfillment of Biblical Prophecy: Reassessing Byzantine Imperial Eschatology in the Age of Constantine.” For this paper, Dr. Bonura received ASCH’s 2020 Mead Prize, which is granted to…
Read More2021 ASCH Research Fellowships Winners
We’re delighted to announce the winners of our two ASCH Research Fellowships: the John F. Wilson Research Fellowship and the American Society of Church History Research Fellowship. With a cash value of $1000, these competitive and prestigious awards were adjudicated by ASCH’s Graduate Students and Independent Scholars Awards Committee, chaired this year by Dr. Helen Jin Kim. John F. Wilson Research Fellowship…
Read MoreCall for Contributors: “Christians in the City” Book Series
Dyron Daughrity of Pepperdine University has announced a new 25-book series with Bloomsbury Academic titled Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity. This series is intended to contribute to the growing body of scholarship on world Christianity, lived religion, material religion, urban studies, and globalization as it engages people on the ground in…
Read MoreVirtual Issue (2020): “Looking Forward, Looking Back: Christianity in Latin America and the Caribbean
In this inaugural virtual issue, Christina Davidson’s article “Redeeming Santo Domingo: North Atlantic Missionaries and the Racial Conversion of a Nation,” winner of the American Society of Church History’s annual Sidney E. Mead Prize and published in our March 2020 issue, offers an opportunity to revisit the journal’s scholarship on the Caribbean and Latin America.…
Read MoreInterview 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…
Read MoreCalls for Papers
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Read MoreNew 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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