Fields of Specialization
Early America, African American, Atlantic World, Religion
Education
Ph.D., Early American History, Duke University, 1992
B.A., History, University of Virginia, 1980
Professional Appointments
University of Florida.
Professor of History, 2006
Associate Professor, 2000-06
Assistant Professor, 1998-2000.
University of Southern Mississippi
Assistant Professor of History, 1994-98.
College of William and Mary
Assistant Professor of History, 1992-94.
Old Salem, Inc. Research historian, 1989-1992.
Selected Awards
National Humanities Center. NEH Fellow, 2001-02.
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and
Culture. Postdoctoral/NEH Fellow, 1992-94.
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Study and
Research Visit Grant, 2003.
University of Florida. Humanities Scholarship Enhancement
Grant, 2001, 2006
R.D.W. Connor Award. Best article, North Carolina Historical
Review, 1995
Selected Recent Publications
Books
Before the Bible Belt: Religions of the Early South (under contract,
Harvard University Press)
Rebecca’s Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic
World (Harvard University Press, 2005).
A Separate Canaan: The Making of An Afro-Moravian World in
North Carolina, 1763-1840 (University of North Carolina
Articles and Chapters
“Religion and the Early South in an Age of Atlantic Empire,”
Journal of Southern History LXXIII (2007), 631-42.
“Slavery, Race, and the Global Fellowship: Religious Radicals
Confront the Modern Age,” in Michele Gillespie and Robert
Beachy, eds., Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the
Atlantic World (Berghahn, 2007).
“’Self-Evident Truths’ On Trial: African Americans in the
American Revolution,” in Andrew Frank, ed., The American
Revolution (ABC-Clio, 2007), 43-64.
“Beyond Equiano,” invited essay for forum on Olaudah Equiano in
Historically Speaking VII (Jan.-Feb. 2006), 12-13.
“African-American Christianity, 1815-1915,” Cambridge History
of Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 429-42.
“Before the Bible Belt: Indians, Africans, and the New Synthesis
of Eighteenth-Century Southern Religious History,” in Donald
G. Mathews and Beth B. Schweiger, eds., Religion in the
American South: Protestants and Others in History and
Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 5-29.
“Conversion and Kinship: Christianity, Slavery, and the African-
American Family,” Plantation Society in the Americas (Fall
2001), 1-15.
“Interracial Sects: Religion, Race and Gender Among Early North
Carolina Moravians,” in Catherine Clinton and Michele
Gillespie, eds., The Devil’s Lane: Sex and Race in the Early
South (Oxford University Press, 1997), 154-67.
Retrieved from:
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More articles:
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“Charting a Course in Early African-American History, The William and Mary Quarterly, (1993), p. 394-405 |
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“Culture and Conflict in the Early Black Church: a Moravian Mission Congregation in Antebellum North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review, (1994)
Works reviewed by Jon F. Sensbach:
“From Reich to Realm: German Immigrants in a New Land,” A.G. Roeber Reviews in American History, (1994), pp. 210-215
“Herrnhuter Indianermission in der Amerikanschen Revolution: Die Tagebucher von David Zeisberger 1772 bis 1781.” Hermann Wellenreuther; Carola Wessel.
