Scholarship
Only works which are available in full text are listed here. For a complete listing, see my CV.
Conference Proceedings and Papers
“The Vocabulary of Conversion: Text-Mining the East Windsor Conversion Relations,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Church History, Boston, January 9, 2011. PDF: text and slides
“Confessionalization and the Creedal Tradition,” The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (March 2010): 79–90. PDF
Book Reviews
* Additional book reviews have been posted to the blog.
Review of A Theology of Religious Change: What the Social Science of Conversion Means for the Gospel, by David J. Zehnder, Journal of Markets and Morality, forthcoming. web
Review of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760–1835, by Cedrick May, Journal of Southern Religion 13 (2011). web, PDF
Review of The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career, by T. A. Milford, Historical Journal of Massachusetts 39, nos. 1–2 (summer 2011), 265–66. PDF
Review of Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Army History 78 (winter 2011), 44–45. PDF
Review of In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Anti-evolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch, The Southern Historian 30 (spring 2009), 103–5. PDF
Newspaper Articles
“Faith-based Tolerance,” The Brandeis Hoot, December 3, 2010. web, PDF
ProfHacker Posts
A complete listing of my ProfHacker posts is available on the Chronicle of Higher Education.