Interview 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2019’s Sidney E. Mead prize for best unpublished article from dissertation research of advanced graduate student or recent PhD went to Christina Davidson.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,…
Read MoreTwo 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…
Read MoreEditorship of the Journal Quaker History (Due 4/15)
Position Announcement: Editorship of the Journal Quaker History Friends Historical Association (FHA) seeks an editor for its journal Quaker History to begin duties by May 2018. The editor receives a stipend of $2,500 for each issue ($5,000 a year). About Friends Historical Association: The Friends Historical Association is devoted to the study, preservation and publication of material relating to…
Read MoreDirector of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity (Due 3/15)
Calvin College is searching for the next director of the Nagel Institute. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact current director, Joel Carpenter, or Prof. Vanden Berg, search chair. DIRECTOR’S PROFILE/JOB POSTING Calvin College invites applications for the Director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity. The Nagel Institute…
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