Job 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…
Read MoreASCH Constitution and Bylaws Update
The latest proposed drafts of the ASCH Constitution and Bylaws are now live! You can find them at http://www.churchhistory.org/about-us/constitution-bylaws/
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreA Short Interview with Professor Eric Wickman
Eric Wickman is an adjunct faculty in the College of Christian Studies at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. Eric received his PhD from the University of Saint Louis in 2013 under the direction of Father Ken Steinhauser. His research focuses on Hilary of Poitiers and early Christian soteriology. We thank Professor Wickman for taking the…
Read MoreA Short Interview with Professor Peter Harrison
Peter Harrison is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland (Australia). Professor Harrison has published extensively in the area of intellectual history with a focus on the philosophical, scientific, and religious thought of the early modern period. He has been a Visiting Fellow…
Read MoreLinda F. Dietz Prize
Please see the message below for information about the Linda F. Dietz Prize! Each year the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire offers the Linda F. Dietz Prize — $500 and publication of the winning article. The Linda F. Dietz prize is awarded to the best submission written in either French or English by a…
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