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Silas Webster Allard Emory University The People after the Nation: Natives, Foreigners, and a Political Theology of Ingathering Learn More »
DANIEL BALLON-GARST Emory University Queer Religious Capital: Race, Religion, and LGBTQ Politics in Washington, DC, and the DMV, 1968-2008 Learn More »
Rubén David Bonilla-Ramos Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto Teología, imaginación y otras maneras de ser hombre: A decolonial exploration of “Man” in Latin American and Caribbean liberation theologies. Learn More »
LaRyssa Dawn Herrington The University of Notre Dame Theorizing Diaspora: Africana Marian Popular Piety as Embodied Political Theology Learn More »
Kimberlee Ann Medicine Horn Jackson Naiits: An Indigenous Learning Community "Because They Were Dakota: The Deloria Family’s Responses to the Western Colonized Christian Interpretation,” Learn More »
Gilha Lee Emory University Reciprocating with the Diakonia of Reconciliation: A Socio-Politico-Economic Reading of Paul’s Theology of Reconciliation Learn More »
Susan Ruth McElcheran Regis St. Michael's College An Affective Pneumatology: The Holy Spirit in The Cloud of Unknowing from a Mimetic and Disability Perspective Learn More »
Chandra Corena Plowden Harvard University From Cheap Labor to Good-Work: Black Laboring Religious Women’s Organizing and Ethico-Religious Visions in Charleston, SC from 1930-present Learn More »
Flora X. Tang University of Notre Dame Multidirectional Pasts, Diasporic Futures: An Asian American Eschatology from the Middle Learn More »
Noemi Vega Quiñones Southern Methodist University Migrant Women’s Agencies in Predominantly Spanish-Speaking Communities of California’s Central Coast: An Exploration of Faith, Ethical Negotiations, and the Burdens of Virtues Learn More »
Jess Winderweedle Princeton Theological Seminary Public Indecency: Toward a Queer Futurity in the Homiletical Instruction of Mainline Preachers Learn More »
Xenia Chan Regis St. Michael's College "My Mother Is My Grave’: A Transpacific Sinophone Reading of Necropolitical Trauma in Jeremiah’s Confessions" Learn More »
Elisha Chi Villanova University Stories and Silence: Issues and Methods Supporting the Decolonization of the Catholic Church Learn More »
Kelsey Hanson Woodruff Harvard University Faithful Dissent: The Feminist Counterpublic on the Margins of Evangelicalism Learn More »
Rachel Mihee Kim-Kort Indiana University Koreanity: Citizenship, Transpacific Entanglements, and the Racializing Assemblages of American Christianity Learn More »
Anneli Loepp Thiessen University of Ottawa Whose Worship? An Examination of Gendered Limitations on Women in the Contemporary Worship Music Industry Learn More »
Deivit Montealegre Cuenca Emmanuel College, University of Toronto Debt, Guilt, and Coloniality: On the Economics of Christian Salvation Learn More »
Chanelle Robinson Boston College Entangled Poetics: Womanist and Decolonial Expansions of the Imago Dei Learn More »
Austin Washington Phillips Academy Andover An Ethic of Self-Surrender: An interpretation of the tradition of protest inherent to Black Pentecostal practices Learn More »
Jessie Washington Emory University For Colored Girls Who Have Attempted Suicide: A Practical Theology of Black Women's Mental Health Learn More »
Wing Yi Wong Emmanuel College, University of Toronto Preaching the Disturbing Ghost in the Pulpit: The Use of Haunto-Postcolonial Preaching Model for the Wounded Hearers Learn More »
Nauff Mohammed Zakaria Vanderbilt University The Reclamation of a Lost Voice: An Analysis of “Dinah’s Agency” in Genesis 34 and the Reception Thereof Learn More »
Tala AlRaheb Emory University “Singing Allah’s Song in a Foreign Land”: Palestinians and Christian Zionism in America Learn More »
Jee Hyun Baek Methodist Theological School in Ohio Mourning Across Generations:Theological Witness to Intergenerational Trauma in the Korean Diaspora Learn More »
Ji Min Bang Brandeis University The Politics of the Grotesque Body:The Body as a Site of Subversion and Resistance in Biblical Discourse Learn More »
Hunter Bragg Drew University Condemning Whom We Do Not Know: A Political Theology of Plea Bargaining in American Criminal Justice Learn More »
Kyle Byron University of Toronto To Every Creature: Language, Law, and Masculinity in U.S. Street Preaching Learn More »
DeAnna Monique Daniels Rice University Thinking Through the Slash: Horror’s Entanglement in Black Religious Thought and Culture Learn More »
Ambre Dromgoole Yale University There’s a Heaven Somewhere: Itinerancy, Intimacy, and Performance in the lives of Gospel Blues Women, 1915-1983 Learn More »
Jason Oliver Evans University of Virginia If God Be for Us: Toward a Theology of Atonement and Christian Life from a Black Queer Perspective Learn More »
Sarah C Jobe Interfaith Prison Ministry for Women (Ad)ministering God’s Yes in a World of No: Karl Barth and a Practical Theology of Prison Chaplaincy Learn More »
Rosy Kandathil Wake Forest Seriously Funny: Violence and Comedy in the Narrative Traditions of Esther Learn More »
Katherine Karam McCray University of Toronto The Unattainable Body: Reconstructing a Theological Anthropology of Disability Learn More »
Denise Meda-Lambru Texas A&M University A Chicanx Transborder Investigation of the Aesthetic and Ethical Practices to Re-Member our Dead Learn More »
Marlon Millner Northern Illinois University Without the Body, Within the Flesh – Blackness, Biopolitics, Spirit Baptism, and the Exilic Afterlife of Pentecostalism Learn More »
José L. Santana Southern Methodist University Slave Servants and Saved Souls: Jesuit Evangelization and the Development of Afro-Caribbean Catholicism, 1605-1654 Learn More »
Kevin O. Vandiver Church of the Reformation (Lutheran) From Slave to Savior: An Epistemological Paradigm of Black Preaching Learn More »
Leonard Curry Vanderbilt University Problems of Feeling: Affect, Social Power, and Contingency in Black American Life Learn More »
Isaiah Ellis University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Southern Gospel of Good Roads: Religion, Race, and Infrastructure in the American South Learn More »
Madeline Gambino Princeton University Just and Grave Causes: Decline as Religious Change in Catholic Philadelphia Learn More »
Manuel A Grajales Texas A&M University “Our Fight is Here: The Puerto Rican Anti-War Movement, 1940-1975" Learn More »
Chwi-Woon Kim Davis Community Church Nostalgia in the Book of Psalms: Reconsidering Collective Dimensions of "I" through a Postcolonial Lens of Korean Resistance Poetry Learn More »
Roxanne Lee Korpan University of Toronto Scriptural Relations: Colonial Formations of Anishinaabemowin Bibles in Nineteenth-Century Canada Learn More »
Shirley Lung Johns Hopkins University Hyphenated Identities: Transnational Taiwanese Church Organizations and Taiwanese Identity Formation Learn More »
Shari Chana Mackinson Texas Christian University Postcolonial Blackness Learn More »
Keith Andrew Menhinick Emory University, Graduate Department of Religion Resilience Theology and Care: LGBTQ+ Trauma, Complicity, and Spiritual Practice Learn More »
Christina Pasqua University of Toronto Drawing Out the Word: Remediating the Bible through Comics Learn More »
R. Nicholas Peterson Emory University Violence, Blackness, and Intra-Black Care: Towards a Black Theology of Practice Learn More »
Miray Philips University of Minnesota Politics of Persecution: Middle East Christians in US Foreign Policy Learn More »
Nelly Wamaitha Boston College "Law and the Lunatic Express: Progress and the Legitimation of Inequality" Learn More »
Bryson White Santa Clara University Racial Rapture: Mass Incarceration as Distorted Christian Eschatology Learn More »
Joseph Williams Rutgers University-New Brunswick Black Club Women, the Production of Religious Thought, and the Making of an Intellectual Movement, 1854-1933 Learn More »
Hyejung Jessie Yum Emmanuel College, University of Toronto Planetary Peace: A Postcolonial Mennonite Peace Theology in a Multicultural Context Learn More »
Erick Berrelleza Santa Clara University The Religious Lives of Latin American Immigrants: Geographies & Shifting Landscapes in the New South Learn More »
Elizabeth Cable University of Virginia The Courage to Be Otherwise: A Neurodivergent Theology of Liberation and Survival Learn More »
Jennifer Carlier Columbia Theological Seminary Redeeming the Atonement: In search of an articulation of salvation that is helpful to those struggling with addiction Learn More »
Emily Dubie Duke University “The Limits of Love: Perplexity, Exhaustion & Prayer” Learn More »
David Jesus Flores University of California, Los Angeles Religion and the Chicana/o Movement Learn More »
Seth Emmanuel Gaiters University of North Carolina Wilmington Black Sacred Politics: (Extra)Ecclesial Eruptions in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement Learn More »
Claire Gilliland UNC Chapel Hill Clergy Voices: How Conflicts over Race and Sexuality in America are Framed from the Pulpit Learn More »
James Howard Hill Jr Boston University Undecidable Blackness: Popular Culture, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Michael Jackson Cacophony Learn More »
Jeongyun April Hur Claremont School of Theology Ethnography of Parents of Children with Disabilities: Role of Class in the Construction of Parents' Lived Theology Learn More »
Mx WE King University of Washington Dissertation Title: A Match Made in Heaven?: Queer Christians and Dating Apps Learn More »
Mark Michael Lambert The University of Chicago The Sacramental Sickness: The Aesthetic Interplay between Leprosy and the Eucharist in Historical Theology Learn More »
Peace Lee Duke Divinity School Unsettling Preaching: Toward an Unthought Homiletic Learn More »
Erik Kim Nordbye Harvard Divinity School The Cost of Free Religion: Religious and Economic Liberties in New England after the Great Awakening Learn More »
Oneya Fennell Okuwobi The Ohio State University The Costs of Diversity: How Pastors of Color Experience Diversity Programs and Policies within Multiracial Churches Learn More »
Marie Purcell Southern Methodist University Faithful Citizens: Religious, Gender, and Political Identities of Women at First Baptist Dallas Learn More »
Jorge Juan Rodríguez V Union Theological Seminary Lived Theologizing at the People’s Church: Latinx Religious Activism and the Young Lords Learn More »
Nicole Symmonds McAfee School of Theology Trafficking in God: Exploring the Intersection of Race and Sexuality in Evangelical Commercial Sex Trade Interventions Learn More »
Thomas Frederick Thornton Johns Hopkins University A Pastoral Prison: Ethics, Violence, and Place in Cotton County, Alabama Learn More »
Judith Ellen Brunton University of Toronto A Pandemonium of Hope: Oil, aspiration, and the good life in Alberta Learn More »
Jessica Lauren Criales Rutgers Women of Our Nation: Gender, Race, and Christian Indian Identity in Mexico and the United States, 1753-1867 Learn More »
Elizabeth F.L. Dolfi Columbia University Restoring Broken Selves: Gender, Humanitarian Affects, and the Evangelical Anti-trafficking Movement Learn More »
Michael Remedios Grigoni Lexington Theological Seminary The Gun in American Life: An Ethnographic Theological Ethics Learn More »
Nikki Hoskins University of Scranton “Everyday Experiments in the Projects: Urban Black Women’s Moral Visions for Earth” Learn More »
Ki-Eun Jang Fordham University The Sociology of "Gentilics" in Biblical and Northwest Semitic Literature Learn More »
Andrew Edward Jungclaus Columbia University Church Foundations and Family Trusts: A Religious History of the Secular Non-profit Family Foundation Learn More »
Michelle Marvin University of Notre Dame Remembering in Relation: Edward Schillebeeckx's Theological Anthropology and the Neuroscience of Memory Loss Learn More »
Jane McCamant University of Chicago The Role of Religion in Education for Democracy: the case of Cold War Chicago and Roman Catholicism Learn More »
Hyemin Na Drew University Theological School Digital Productions of the Sacred: Megachurch Visual Cultures in the U.S. and Korea Learn More »
Joi R Orr Interdenominational Theological Center Liberation from the Ground Up: Food Sovereignty, Land Tenure, and the Black Struggle for Justice Learn More »
Matthew J Smith Northwestern University The Age of Plastic(s): Theorizing Race and Religion in the Protestant World Order Learn More »
Grace Vargas Texas Christian University North American Protestantism and Cross-cultural Religious Encounter in the Shadow of Empire: a twentieth century Cuban case Learn More »
Andrew Walker-Cornetta Georgia State University Spiritual Rehabilitation: A Religious History of Intellectual Disability in Postwar America Learn More »
Alexia Victoria Williams University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Black Revolutionary Saints: Roman Catholicism & the U.S. Racial Imagination Learn More »
Briana Lynn Wong Wake Forest School of Divinity Conversion, Cosmology, Spirituality, and Ministry Practices among Cambodian Christians, 1970–Present Learn More »
Elyse Ambrose Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary Black Queer Ethics: Integrative Communality as Liberative Christian Sexual Ethics Learn More »
Amaryah Shaye Armstrong Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blackness and the Problem of Belonging: Political Theological Readings of the Family Learn More »
Sarah J Barton Duke Divinity School The Baptized Body: Exploring Disability and Theological Anthropology Learn More »
Roger Baumann Hope College Black Visions of the Holy Land: African American Christian Solidarities in Israel and Palestine Learn More »
Lindsay Wood Glassman University of Pennsylvania "In the Lord's Hands:" An Exploration of Faith, Class, and Culture in Divine Healing Practices Learn More »
Rachelle Renee Green Fordham University A Good Life Here?: The Meaning, Purposes, and Potentiality of Theological Education in Contexts of Confinement Learn More »
Néstor A. Gómez Morales Iliff School of Theology "En el Poder del Espíritu:” A Qualitative Research Study on Social Ethics/Theology among U.S. Latina/o Pentecostals Learn More »
Lydia Hernandez-Marcial Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Life under the Sun: Contradictions and Resistance in Ecclesiastes from a Puerto Rican Perspective Learn More »
Andrew Sinclair Hudson Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion The Pentecostal Construction of Race: Churches of God in the American Religious Frontier 1884-1955 Learn More »
Candace Bridget Lukasik UC Berkeley Transnational Anxieties: Shaping a Minority Community between Egypt and the United States Learn More »
Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas Temple University Sacred Subjects: Christianity, Commemoration, and Religion’s Presence in the Past Learn More »
Minjung Noh Drew University Salvation, Salvage, and the Fashioning of Care in the Haitian Religious Field: A Study of Korean American Protestant Women Missionaries in Haiti Learn More »
Jillian Pamela Plummer University of Notre Dame "Saving Latin America: Catholic Sisters, Communism, and the Cold War, 1958-1979" Learn More »
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz Northeastern University East of Appalachia: The New Russian Turn in American Christianity Learn More »
Hilary Jerome Scarsella Colgate Rochester Crosier Divinity School Sexual Violence: Trauma in Theological Perspective Learn More »
Wonchul Shin Columbia Theological Seminary Resurrecting Virtues against Structural Evil: A Study on the Cultivation and Exercise of Virtues of the Oppressed through Their Practices of Resistance and Flourishing Learn More »
Kyle Eugene Brooks Methodist Theological School in Ohio Who Speaks for Black Flesh? Rethinking the Public Leadership of Black Clergymen in Socio-Political Movements Learn More »
Courtney Alma Bryant Vanderbilt Graduate Department of Religion Erotic Defiance: A Womanist Ethic of Political Agency Learn More »
Peter Capretto Vanderbilt University Social Recognition and the Ethics of Empathy in Pastoral Theological Anthropology: A Phenomenological and Relational Psychoanalytic Study Learn More »
Leonel Guardado Fordham University Church as Sanctuary: A Preferential Option for the Displaced Poor Learn More »
Lisa Nichols Hickman Duquesne University A Disability Theology of Limits for Responding to Moral Injury Learn More »
Nathan Jeremie-Brink New Brunswick Theological Seminary "'Gratuitous Distribution': Distributing African American Antislavery Texts, 1773-1850" Learn More »
Melanie Chante Jones Chicago Theological Seminary UP AGAINST A CROOKED GOSPEL: BLACK WOMEN’S BODIES AND THE POLITICS OF CHARACTER IN RELIGION & SOCIETY Learn More »
Jaisy A. Joseph Villanova University Reimagining Catholicity: An Interstitial Perspective Learn More »
Andrew Krinks Vanderbilt University White Property, Black Trespass: A Theological-Political Account of Criminalization Learn More »
Elena Lloyd-Sidle University of Chicago Divinity School Theological Anthropologies of Connectivity: Spirit, Context and Toxic Whiteness in 21st Century North America Learn More »
Ekaterina Lomperis Portland Seminary of George Fox University Human Bodies in Pain as Spiritual Battlefields: Christian Illness, Medicine, and Healing in Early Modern and Contemporary Thought Learn More »
Gustavo Maya Princeton University The Work of the People: Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the Justice of La Causa Learn More »
Erica M Ramirez Auburn Seminary Making a Pentecostal Matriarchal Divinity: A Bakhtinian-Kristevan Reading of Azusa Street Mission Learn More »
Kera Street Harvard University Promises, Piety, and Black Women’s Religious Networking in the Digital Age Learn More »
Ekaputra Tupamahu Portland Seminary - George Fox University Tongue(s) and the Politics of Language in 1 Corinthians 14 Learn More »
Hannah R Waits UC Berkeley Missionary Positions: American Evangelicals and the Transnational History of the Culture Wars, 1945-2000 Learn More »
Nathan Walton University of Virginia "Blessed and Highly Favored": The Theological Anthropology of the Prosperity Gospel Learn More »
Marvin Wickware Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Rain for the Unjust: Love and the Racial Enemy Learn More »
Peter S. Cajka Boston College The Theology of Conscience in America, 1940-1989 Learn More »
Catrina L Ciccone Luther Seminary A Refuge to Its Own Refugees: A Theological Ethnographic Study of Three Congregations Learn More »
Jessica Coblentz Saint Mary's College Depression, Salvation, and the Human Person Learn More »
Brandy R. Daniels Vanderbilt University Who's the We? Community, Futurity, and the Formation of (Spiritual) Subjectivities Learn More »
Mary Emily Briehl Duba University Dubuque A Theology of Place and Displacement Learn More »
Rachel Ellis University of Pennsylvania Daughters of Christ in the D.O.C.: How Religion Matters for Incarcerated Women Learn More »
Ashleigh Elser University of Virginia Felix Culpa: A Theology of Hermeneutic Frictions in Biblical Literature Learn More »
Andrew C. Forsyth Yale University Common Law and Natural Law Learn More »
Ángel Jazak Gallardo Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Mapping the Nature of Empire: The Legacy of Theological Geography in the Early Iberian Atlantic. Learn More »
Eduardo M Gonzalez Boston College Neighboring the Invisible: Liberation Theologies, the Exodus Narrative and the Catastrophe of Canaan Learn More »
Kyle Brent Thompson Lambelet Virginia Theological Seminary ¡Presente! Political Theology at the Gates of Fort Benning Learn More »
Timothy L. McGee Southern Methodist University Beyond Redemption: James Cone, Eschatological Freedom, and the End of the (White) World Learn More »
Xavier Pickett NC State University Black (Ir)religious Fire: The Literary and Moral Imagination of James Baldwin and James Cone Learn More »
Catherine E. Williams Lancaster Theological Seminary Towards a Decolonial Homiletic Learn More »
Jonathan Calvillo Candler School of Theology/ Emory University Identity Construction Among Mexican Congregants in Santa Ana, CA: How Religious Affiliation Influences Intra-ethnic Divergence in Acculturation Learn More »
Daniel Cosacchi Loyola University, Chicago Earthly Destruction: Catholic Social Teaching, War, and the Environment Learn More »
Kristen Gaylord Institute of Fine Arts, NYU "Infiltrate the masses": Immaculate Heart College and Corita Kent in the 1960s Learn More »
Philipp Gollner Goshen College Good White Christians: How Immigrants Shaped Race, Changed America – and Lost their Flavor Learn More »
Sean M. Gross Graduate Theological Union Sensus Homosexualitatis: Exploring Sensus Fidelium Through an Examination of Pastoral Care for Catholic Sexual Minorities Learn More »
Aaron O Howard Vanderbilt University Dancing on Injustice: African American Pentecostal Experience and Prophetic Social Action Learn More »
Christiane M Lang Hearlson Princeton Theological Seminary Biblical and Religious Literacy as Social Practice Learn More »
Josey B Snyder Emory University Looking Back at Lot's Wife: A Reception-Critical Character Study Learn More »
Rebecca F Spurrier Columbia Theological Seminary Works of Love: Beauty and Fragility in a Community of Difference Learn More »
Joseph Strife Union Theological Seminary The Object of Charity Learn More »
Michele E. Watkins St. John's University A Socialized Soteriology: Democratic Womanism as a Communal Reconstrual of Theosis Learn More »
Charles D Wright University of Virginia Politics as Penitence: John Zizioulas and the Eucharistic Consummation of Ethics Learn More »
Gary Adler Penn State University Motivating Activism?: Religious Immersion Trips on the U.S.-Mexico Border Learn More »
Christopher D. Cantwell Newberry Library The Word Made Flesh: The Adult Bible Class Movement and the Transformation of Evangelical America Learn More »
John-Charles Duffy Miami University Christians, Cultists, Cobelligerents: Mormon-Evangelical Relations in the Era of the New Religious Right Learn More »
Michael S. Evans University of California, San Diego Mad Scientists and False Prophets? Religion and Science in American Public Life Learn More »
Alison Collis Greene Candler School of Theology Religion and the Great Depression in Memphis and the Delta Learn More »
Brendan Pietsch University of Kazaksthan Dispensational Modernism Learn More »
Angela H. Reed George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University Search for Community: Congregation-Based Spiritual Guidance Rooted in Jürgen Moltmann's Social Doctrine of the Trinity and Ecclesiology of Voluntary Friendship Learn More »
John Edward Senior Wake Forest University School of Divinity Political Agency and Christian Ethics: Constructing the Moral Self Through Political Work Learn More »
Gretel A. Van Wieren Michigan State University Restoring Earth, Restored to Earth: Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, Ecological Restoration Learn More »
Almeda M. Wright Yale Divinity School Integrated-Integrating Pedagogy: A Practical Theological Analysis of Fragmented Spirituality Among African American Adolescents Learn More »
Jennifer R Ayres Candler School of Theology, Emory University With an Urgency Born of This Hope..: A Constructive Practical Theology of Reformed Christian Social Witness Practice Learn More »
Seth Dowland Pacific Lutheran University Christianity and Masculinity on Tobacco Road: Gender, Order, and the Bible in the Recent South, 1965-2000 Learn More »
Brantley W. Gasaway Bucknell University An Alternative Soul of Politics: The Rise of Contemporary Progressive Evangelicalism Learn More »
Conrad Hackett Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Religion and Fertility in the United States Learn More »
Charlene Jin Lee San Francisco Theological Seminary Life-Breathed Curriculum: Reconceptualizing Christian Education Through Autobiography Learn More »
Nancy J. Martin California State University, Long Beach Small Groups in Big Churches Learn More »
Jennifer M. McBride Wartburg College The Church "for the World": Confession of Sin as the Privileged Church's Sociopolitical Praxis Learn More »
Bruce Rittenhouse Aurora University Shopping for Meaningful Lives: A Christian Existential Reinterpretation of the Moral Motivation of Consumerism Through the Theology of Paul Tillich Learn More »
Tobin Miller Shearer University of Montana The Danger of Purity: How White Mennonites Maintained Racial Distance, 1940 to 1971 Learn More »
Josef Sorett Columbia University Spirit Soundings: Religion, Race and the Arts in Twentieth Century America Learn More »
Shelby M. Balik Metropolitan State College of Denver The Religious Frontier: Church, State, and Settlement in Northern New England 1780-1830 Learn More »
Judith S. Casselberry Bowdoin College Power and Performance Among African American Holiness-Pentecostal Women Learn More »
Sarah B. Costello University of Wisconsin-Madison Christian Citizenship: Ecclesiastical Conflicts and Political Rhetoric in the Early Republic Learn More »
Andrew S. Finstuen Boise State University Hearts of Darkness: American Protestants and the Doctrine of Original Sin, 1945-1965 Learn More »
Benjamin H. Houston Newcastle University The Nashville Way: A Southern City Confronts Racial Change, 1945-1975 Learn More »
Natalia M. Imperatori-Lee Manhattan College The Use of Marian Imagery in Catholic Ecclesiology Since Vatican II Learn More »
Michael Jo The Birth of Free Enterprise: Business, Religion, and Conservatism in Philadelphia, 1900-1950 Learn More »
Rebecca E. Sager Loyola Marymount University The Politics of Religion's Promise: State Implementation of Faith-Based Initiatives Learn More »
Alan Terlep Central Christian Church Headwaters of Fundamentalism, 1825-1885 Learn More »
Tamara J. Van Dyken Western Kentucky University Singing the Gospel: Evangelical Hymnody, Popular Religion, and American Culture: 1870-1940 Learn More »
Karen L. Yonemoto Claremont McKenna College Sacred Changes: Multiracial Alliances and Community Trans/formation among Evangelical Churches in the U.S. Learn More »
Anne L. Borden Morehouse College Making Money, Saving Souls: The Emergence and Evolution of the Christian Bookstore Field in the United States Learn More »
Dorothea Browder Western Kentucky University Working Women, Religion and Race in the YWCA Industrial Clubs, 1908-1948 Learn More »
Laura Rebecca Clawson Working America I Belong to this Band, Hallelujah: Faith, Community and Tradition Among Sacred Harp Singers Learn More »
Curtis Junius Evans University of Chicago The Burden of Black Religion: Representing the Race and Enlisting the Black Churches in the Nation's Racial Struggle Learn More »
Stephen M. Hageman William Woods University Confronting Backlash, White Flight, and Urban Decline: The Catholic Neighborhood Movement and Community Organizing in White Ethnic Chicago, 1966-1990 Learn More »
Christopher David Hinkle Arizona State University Secularization Troubles: The Sociology of Liberal Protestantism Learn More »
Matthew T. Loveland Le Moyne College Civic Congregations: Congregational Dynamics and Individual Civic Choices Learn More »
Pamela Ruth McCarroll Toronto School of Theology, Knox College Waiting for the Thief in the Night: The Character of Hope in a North American Theology of the Cross Learn More »
Marsha M. Michie Stanford University What God Has for Me, It is for Me: Living Religion in an Independent Pentecostal Church Learn More »
Bethany Ellen Moreton University of Georgia Wal-Mart World: The Christian Free Enterprise Ethos from the Sunbelt to the Panama Canal Learn More »
Justin D. Poché College of the Holy Cross Religion, Race, and Rights in Catholic Louisiana, 1938-1975 Learn More »
Peter G. Slade Ashland University Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship Learn More »
Matthew Avery Sutton Oakland University Hollywood Religion: Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostalism, and American Culture Learn More »
Christopher Daniel Tirres DePaul University John Dewey's Theory of Religious Experience: The Convergence of the Aesthetic and Ethical Learn More »
Socorro Castañeda-Liles Aspira Consulting Another Book on La Virgen?: Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Cultural Politics of Interpretation Learn More »
Jonathan H. Ebel University of Illinois Faith, Suffering, and American Soldiers' Experiences of the First World War Learn More »
Kathleen M. Garces-Foley Marymount University Crossing the Ethnic Divide: Racial Reconciliation in American Evangelicalism Learn More »
Miranda K. Hassett Episcopal Divinity School More Than Just Companions: Alliances between Conservative Episcopalians and African Anglicans in Contemporary Episcopal Church Conflicts Learn More »
Matthew S. Hedstrom University of Virginia Religious Middlebrow: Psychology, New Thought, and Christian Mysticism in Mass-Market Books, 1920-1960 Learn More »
Robert P. Hoch University of Dubuque Theological Seminary Between Pulpit and Totem: Towards a Pedagogy for Preaching in the Alaska Native Context Learn More »
Daniel M. Hungerman University of Notre Dame Are Church and State Substitutes? Evidence from the 1996 Welfare Reform Learn More »
Aaron Keith Ketchell University of Kansas Holy Hills: Religion and Leisure in Branson, Missouri Learn More »
Arlene L. Macdonald The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities Resurrected Bodies: Individual Experiences and Collective Expressions of Organ Transplant in North America Learn More »
Margarita A. Mooney University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Christian Faith and the Struggle for Immigrant Adaptation: Haitian Catholics in Miami, Montreal and Paris Learn More »
Richard A. Pizzi Indiana University Gospels of Wealth: The American Protestant Discourse of Prosperity in the Gilded Age and the Post-WWII Era Learn More »
R. Bryan Bademan MacLaurin Institute Church Questions & American Answers: Denominational Resurgence and the Making of Christian America, 1830-1900 Learn More »
Darren T. Dochuk Purdue University Salvation in the Southland: Wartime Migration, Grassroots Politics, and the Religious Origins of the New Right in Southern California, 1940-1980 Learn More »
Mary J. Henold Roanoke College Faith, Feminism. and the Politics of Sustained Ambivalence: The Creation of the American Catholic Feminist Movement, 1963-1980 Learn More »
Hilda P. Koster Concordia College For the Future of the Earth: Creation and Salvation in Contemporary Protestant Eco-Theologies Learn More »
Marie Friedmann Marquardt Emory University Shifting Landscapes, Revising Selves: Religion, Place, and Public Participation among Mexicans in the New South Learn More »
Christian Theological Seminary Lancaster Theological Seminary Ethnography as Theology: Holy Week in Northern New Mexico with La Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno Learn More »
Sonja Elizabeth Spear University of Iowa Spiritual Semites: The Holocaust in the Liberal Jewish-Christian Dialogue, 1939-1976 Learn More »
Randall J. Stephens Eastern Nazarene College The Fire Spreads: the Origins of Southern Pentecostalism Learn More »
W. David Stevens Consortium on Chicago School Research Taking the World: Evangelism and Assimilation Among Ghanaian Pentecostals in Chicago Learn More »
Tammy R Williams First Baptist of Cranford/Elizabeth, NJ Proclaiming the Lord's Death until He Comes: An Afro-Baptist Reflection on the Lord's Supper Learn More »
Chris R. Armstrong Bethel Seminary Negotiating a Relational Hope in a Modernizing Society: Gilded-Age Campmeeting Holiness Culture, 1867-1890 Learn More »
Valerie C. Cooper University of Virginia I Took the Sword Into My Hands: Black Women and the Bible, 1820-1920 Learn More »
James Calvin Davis Middlebury College Pluralism and Christian Conviction: The Moral Theology of Roger Williams Learn More »
Carolyn R. Dupont Eastern Kentucky University Mississippi Praying: White Religion and the Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1966 Learn More »
William H. Lockhart McLennan Community College Getting Saved from Poverty: An Investigation of the Effect of Religion in Programs That Help the Poor Find and Keep Employment Learn More »
Anne M. Martínez University of Groningen Reluctant Shepherds: Mexican Immigrants and the Catholic Church in Chicago, 1910-1930 Learn More »
Jennifer L. McKinney Seattle Pacific University Clergy Connections: The Impact of Clergy Networks on Evangelical Renewal Movements Learn More »
Mary Clark Moschella Yale Divinity School Mary, Star of the Sea: The Interplay of Religion and Immigration in Italian Catholic Devotional Practices in the Port of Los Angeles Learn More »
Christian Scharen St. Lydia's Dinner Church Public Worship and Public Work: Character and Commitment in Local Congregational Life Learn More »
Gregory C. Stanczak Williams College Restructuring Religion and the New Los Angeles Mosaic: An Ethnography of the Los Angeles Church of Christ Learn More »
Candy G Brown Indiana University Influencing Individual and Social Sanctification: Evangelical Reading and Writing Practices from Mid-Nineteenth-Century America Learn More »
Carolyn E. Chen Northwestern University Getting Saved in America: Religious Conversion to Evangelical Protestantism among Taiwanese Immigrants Learn More »
Peter Yuichi Clark Graduate Theological Union Japanese Americans and Aging: Toward an Interreligious Spirituality Learn More »
R. Scott Hanson SUNY Binghamton City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration and Pluralism in Flushing, New York Learn More »
Linda Marie Martin Ursuline College Fallen Women and Destitute Men: Gender, Religion, and the Redemption of Urban Space in the United States Salvation Army Learn More »
Omar M. McRoberts University of Chicago Saving Four Corners: Religion and Revitalization in a Depressed Neighborhood Learn More »
Martha L. Moore-Keish Columbia Theological Seminary Do This in Remembrance of Me: A Ritual Approach to Reformed Eucharistic Theology Learn More »
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