Definitely glad to see that it's live (for anyone teaching American religious history). I'm grateful to Ben Wright for the invitation to edit a chapter on the Great Awakening(s) and to see all of the brilliant contributions from colleages. www.thunderinggods.com

Teaching about religion in America, or just interested in the topic? Check out this great new open-access resource, edited by Joseph L. Locke and Ben Wright.

Our department is hiring. TT position in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism. I’ve found great colleagues and students here. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/189845?fbcli...

Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...

I'm thrilled to say that we are hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor of Religion in the Islam subfield at Denison University! Please share widely among your networks. apply.interfolio.com/188984

Not available on Cornell UP’s site yet, but my book is available to preorder at various online retailers. Cover forthcoming (hopefully soon!).

Summer reading #amreading

Enjoyed this. www.chartography.net/p/a-voyage-i...

A Voyage Is Not a View

A lost Chinese map and the third graders who knew how to read it.

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Excited to be attending and being a part of this conference on religions and freedom in early America.

Good morning friends-- this evening we kick off a conference on a topic that's pretty darn On Point -- how do we think about religion*s* and freedom*s* in early America? News you can use. And we start with a conversation w @benjaminepark.bsky.social abt Mormonism. Join us via zoom! Link below⬇️

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Tomorrow! We're thrilled to welcome participants in the Religions and Freedom c. 1776 conference to campus, and we are excited to welcome Dr. Benjamin Park as our keynote speaker. Full conference proceedings are available online at jcblibrary.org. Join us!

Tomorrow! We're thrilled to welcome participants in the Religions and Freedom c. 1776 conference to campus, and we are excited to welcome Dr. Benjamin Park as our keynote speaker. Full conference proceedings are available online at jcblibrary.org. Join us!

In case you missed when I posted last night, my piece on Pope Leo, slavery and the context of the apology in light of AI www.ms.now/opinion/pope...

Opinion | Why the pope included an apology for slavery in a warning about AI

Anthea Butler: Pope Leo putting slavery and emergent AI technology together is not strange at all.

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Excited to share that starting the 2026-2027 academic year, I will be a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Vermont. I'm grateful and excited to continue my research and teaching alongside amazing colleagues @uvmvermont.bsky.social

Registration is open for Religions and Freedom, c. 1776! :) jcblibrary.org/events/confe...

Check out @gradualdigging.bsky.social's forthcoming *American Preacher: The Life and Times of the Eccentric Lorenzo Dow,* now with a cover image and available for pre-order.

American Preacher – Penn Press

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We’re hiring! 📣 The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale seeks a recent humanities PhD with experience in program-building, innovative humanities work, and higher ed service for a Postdoctoral Associate in Humanities Leadership. $70K + $3K stipend | Deadline: June 12, 2026 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/185526

Really excited to be part of this volume edited by @kecarte.bsky.social on Religion and America's Founding Era, alongside brilliant colleagues. It is available for pre-order and will be published this upcoming September! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10229/...

Revolutionary Turns

<p><b>Exploring the dynamic interplay between religion and revolution in the founding era</b></p><p>Religion lies at the heart of how many Americans u

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The Friends Historical Association is pleased to announce its grants application cycle is officially open for 2026-2027.! Funds are available in support of research, projects, and book subventions in the fields of Quaker History and Quaker Studies. The deadline for each application is June 19, 2026:

Another late-breaking postdoc in Humanities Leadership at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center. The person in charge has said they will begin reviewing applications June 13 (which means the deadlines on this posting are to be ignored)

Really looking forward to sharing my work on religion and the printing press for the Conference on Religions and Freedoms c. 1776 @jcblibrary.bsky.social

Meet the host and panelists for the upcoming Religion & Revolution episode! Register and learn more: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...

In case anyone happens to be in New Haven today, my book launch is this afternoon. I’m honored to be in conversation with these brilliant folks

Job alert! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is hiring a tenure-track digital archivist. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. Please share widely! This is a great collection, full of hidden gems, in an academic library committed to students. apply.interfolio.com/184021

10 grants available (up to €300) for travel and expenses to join us in Trento, Italy, 16-18 September, for postgrads and ECRs working on a topic related to 'Circulating Faith: Christian Missions in a Global Perspective (1500–2000)' deadline 30 April isig.fbk.eu/it/news/deta... #earlymodern 🗃️

CALL FOR TEN (10) PARTICIPATION GRANTS | Circulating Faith: Christian Missions in a Global Perspective (1500–2000)

International Conference — 16–18 September 2026 Fondazione Bruno Kessler – Italian-German Historical Institute (FBK-ISIG) Trento, Italy

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By studying the visual, material, and religious cultures of Africa, Latin America, and Europe in the early modern Atlantic world, Professor Cécile Fromont, PhD '93, uses art and visual culture to interrogate what societies choose to see—or ignore.

The Power of Looking

Inspiring students and scholars to look at questions, imagery, and themselves in new ways is central to Professor Cecile Fromont’s research and teaching at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.…

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Doing a cool JCB Reads event today at noon (eastern)-- join us to hear from Katharine Gerbner about her fascinating book on 18th century Obeah. And working through and around the archives of criminalized religiosity. Join us! jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

RIP Jurgen Habermas - one of the five major social theorists of the past 60 years. Much to learn from his work. Many gaps, some errors, but he was so rigorous that he inspired some of the best simultaneously dissenting and generative thought of any postwar academic.

Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96

German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figur...

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Postdoc on American Religion at Indiana University www.aarsbl.org/listing/amer... #aarsbl #religiousstudies

I'm hiring! 🏛️ This is a VA-based, hybrid 3-year position for a historian working on digital projects related to religious history. We'll also be hiring a historian working on onsite programming and training related to religious history. Feel free to reach out! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...