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ReligionandPoliticsinEarlyAmerica

A special topics conference of The Society of Early Americanists

Sponsoredby

The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics

and

The Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy

St.LouisMarch1-4,2018

OrganizerAbram Van Engen

We are grateful for our generous sponsors:

Society of Early Americanists

Center for the Humanities Washington University in St. Louis

American Culture Studies Washington University in St. Louis

Revista de Estudios Hispánicos

We are grateful for our generous sponsors:

Washington University in St. Louis

ArtsandSciences

DepartmentofEnglish

DepartmentofHistory

ReligiousStudiesProgram

Eighteenth-CenturyInterdisciplinarySalon

St. Louis University

DepartmentofEnglish

DepartmentofHistory

DepartmentofPhilosophy

Program Committee

KristinaBrossAlexandreDubéLorriGlover

ToniWallJaudonPeterKastorStephanieKirkRobertMorrisseyMarkValeri

AbramVanEngenKellyWisecup

Society of Early Americanists Officers

GordonSayre,UniversityofOregonPresident

PatrickM.Erben,UniversityofWestGeorgiaVicePresident

RalphBauer,UniversityofMarylandExecutiveCoordinator

Made possible through the generous help of:

KariAlcaLeslieDavisMeredithLane

THURSDAY 7

SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 1 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

TheLongAwakening:RethinkingthePoliticalSignificanceofRevivalisminEarlyAmerica–Maryland

• BrentSirota,NorthCarolinaStateUniversity,“TheAmericanizationofHighChurchmanship,1789-1815”

• HunterPrice,WesternWashingtonUniversity,“SecondGreatAwakeningandtheDestructionofAmericanNationalism”

• MarkBoonshoft,NorwichUniversity,“TheFirstGreatAwakeningandtheEmergenceofAmericanCivilSociety”

• EmilyConroy-Krutz,MichiganStateUniversity,ChairReligionBeyondtheChurch:NegotiatingthePoliticsofReligiousPracticeinEarlyAmericanPublicLife–Forsyth

• KristenBeales,WilliamandMary,“‘IwentupinmyShopChambertoSeekethefaverofGod’:ReligiousPracticeinCommercialPlaces,1730-1750”

• AlyssaPenick,UniversityofMichigan,“‘Lord,HaveMercyUponthePoor’:EstablishedReligionandPoorReliefinVirginia,1750-1800.”

• DavidJ.Gary,AmericanPhilosophicalSociety,“ThePoliticalUsesoftheFirstSeminaryLibraryintheUnitedStates:JohnMitchellMason’sChallengetotheJeffersonians,1802-1829”

• JonathanD.Sassi,CollegeofStatenIslandandCUNYGraduateCenter,ChairandCommentator

ProcessandPoliticsofConversioninEarlyAmerica–Waterman

• CullenBrown,UniversityofMississippi,“‘IShallgoonwithmyStoryofHim’:ReadingtheProcessofConversioninMayhew'sIndianConverts(1727)”

• StevenHeise,NewburyCollege,HolyokeCommunityCollege,“TheContentiousFont:TheDebateOverBaptismforNativeandAfricanPeoplesinSeventeenthCenturyMassachusettsBay”

THURSDAY 8

• StaceyDearing,PurdueUniversity,“SigningGrace:Disability,Accomodation,andPoliticalEnfranchisementinIncreaseMather’sAnEssayfortheRecordingofIllustriousProvidences”

• MarkValeri,JohnC.DanforthCenteronReligionandPolitics,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,Chair

MoldingPublicOpinion:PrintCulture,Religion,&PoliticsintheEighteenthCentury–Westminster

• DustyDye,UniversityofMaryland,“Faith,Fights,andFunerals:InsightsfromEighteenth-CenturyMourningCustoms”

• JonathonAwtrey,LouisianaStateUniversity,“ChallengingAnti-Semitism:Philadelphia’sNewspaperCulture&thePoliticalFateofJewishPartisans”

• KeithPacholl,UniversityofWestGeorgia,“PeriodicalsandthePoliticizationofReligioninthe1790s”

• NicholasJunkerman,SkidmoreCollege,“’WonderfulDealings’:PoliticsofProtestantMiracleattheTurnoftheNineteenthCentury”

• MichaelBreidenbach,AveMariaUniversity,ChairandCommentatorReligionandRevolutionintheCaribbeanandAmerica–Portland

• CharltonYingling,UniversityofLouisville,“Afro-Catholicism,SpanishReconquista,andtheHaitianRevolution”

• EricaJohnson,FrancisMarionUniversity,“APoliticallyDivisivePriestintheFrenchAmericas”

• BenjaminE.Park,SamHoustonStateUniversity,“ThomasBranagan’sAmerica(s):Slavery,Religion,andPoliticsintheEarlyRepublic”

• AlexDubé,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,ChairandCommentator10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. CoffeeBreak

THURSDAY 9

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

ThePoliticsofHappinessintheEarlyRepublic–Maryland

• TomScanlan,OhioUniversity,“TimothyDwightandthePoliticsofVirtue:PublicHappinessinaSecularAge”

• AndrewB.Ross,UniversityofDelaware,“‘AlthoughILiketheWord‘Temple’IMustGiveitUp’:CharlesWillsonPealeandtheCivicReligionofthePhiladelphiaMuseum”

• CarliConklin,UniversityofMissouri,“‘fleetingandtemporal’or‘realandsubstantial’:HappinessanditsPursuitinthelate-EighteenthCentury”

• JustinDyer,KinderInstituteonConstitutionalDemocracy,UniversityofMissouri,Chair

NetworksandIntegrations:Quakers,Baptists,andCatholics–Forsyth

• DanielGorman,UniversityofRochester,“AbnerWoolman'sColonialWorld:QuakerPoliticsandLiteracyBeforetheAmericanRevolution”

• JacobHicks,GrandCanyonUniversity,“BaptistChurchesasTrainingGroundforYoungMen’sPoliticalActivisminEarlyNationalMasschusetts”

• JefferyR.Appelhans,UniversityofDelaware,“HowtoWinFriendsandInfluencePeople:CatholicPowerinEarlyAmerica”

• JeffreyL.Pasley,KinderInstituteonConstitutionalDemocracy,UniversityofMissouri,ChairandCommentator

Mather,Politics,andBibliaAmericana–Waterman

• ClarkMaddux,AppalachianStateUniversity,“PoliticalandReligiousSignificanceoftheSamaritansinBibliaAmericana”

• RobertE.Brown,JamesMadisonUniversity,“MatherandEnlightenedPoliticsinthePaulineEpistles”

• RickKennedy,PointLomaNazareneUniversity,“CottonMather,Eleutherians,andtheBible’s‘RepublicanStrain’ofPolitics”

• JanStievermann,HeidelbergUniversity,Chair

THURSDAY 10

Race,PowerandReligioninPost-RevolutionaryAmerica–Westminster

• RichardJ.Boles,OklahomaStateUniversity,“RevolutionaryPoliticalLegaciesandIntegratedChurchesintheNorth”

• RebeccaBrenner,AmericanUniversity,“‘TakeThisSabbathDay’:SundayMailControversyBeyondChurchandState,1810-1835”

• DanielR.Mandell,TrumanStateUniversity,“TheAmericanGreatJubilee”• StevenW.Thomas,WagnerCollege,“BiblicalEthiopia”• DouglasL.Winiarski,UniversityofRichmond,Chair

ACatholicAtlanticInterior?Governance,Order,andtheChurchinEarlyAmerica–Portland

• TangiVillerbu,UniversitédeLaRochelle,“BishopFlaget’sorderintheTransappalachianWest,1811-1821”

• RobertEnglebert,UniversityofSaskatchewan,“TitheandBoundariesintheIllinoisCountry,1763-1783”

• DominiqueDeslandres,UniversitédeMontréal,“AndFarFromFrance,youHaveRenamedtheFleurdeLys:SomeHypothesisAboutReligion,SovereigntyandGenderinFrenchAmerica,16th-18thc.”

• Jean-PierreLeGlaunec,UniversitédeSherbrooke,Commentator• ChristineCroxall,JohnC.DanforthCenteronReligionandPolitics,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,Chair

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

LunchOnOwn 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

TranslatingandTransmittingThomasGage’sPolitics–DigitalHumanitiesandtheArtofCriticalEditions,aWorkshop–Maryland

• KristinaBross,PurdueUniversity• CassanderSmith,UniversityofAlabama

THURSDAY 11

ToThinkasMuchofUsasYouDoofYourselves:IntraracialAntagonism,Sectarianism,andColonialism–Forsyth

• LindaC.Jones,UniversityofArkansas,“ReligionandPoliticsontheMississippi:TheJesuitandSeminaryMissionarySquabbleoftheEarly18thCentury”

• EdwardWatts,MichiganStateUniversity,“ThusOurEnglishBrethrenLeaveUsandLaugh:TheMoheganJosephJohnsonandtheAmericanRevolution”

• DouglasL.Winiarski,UniversityofRichmond,“Shakers&theShawneeProphet:TheLocalPoliticsofReligiousViolenceontheEarlyAmericanFrontier,1805–1811”

• TracyLeavelle,CreightonUniversity,ChairandCommentatorMather,Religion,andPolitics–Portland

• ReinerSmolinski,GeorgiaStateUniversity,“Poxonit!ThePoliticsofCartesianDualismandCottonMather's‘Nishmath-Chajim’”

• JanStievermann,HeidelbergUniversity,“CottonMather’sBiblicalPoliticsofReligiousToleration”

• BrianBaaki,RutgersUniversity,“CottonMatherandtheConstructionoftheAfricanAmericanCriminal”

• ClarkMaddux,AppalachianStateUniversity,ChairColloquywithMollyFarrellonCountingBodies–Westminster

• JoshuaBartlett,UniversityatAlbany,SUNY• MollyFarrell,OhioStateUniversity• AnaSchwartz,MontclairStateUniversity• JasonShaffer,U.S.NavalAcademy• HilaryWyss,TrinityCollege• NicholasMiller,HollinsUniversity• DennisMoore,FloridaStateUniversity,Chair

Slavery,Dissent,andtheLanguageofBenevolence–Waterman

• TomKrise,PacificLutheranUniversity,“BenevolenceandHypocrisyinVeryEarlyCritiquesofSlavery”

• ElisabethCeppi,PortlandStateUniversity,“APublicofChristianMasters:Re-readingtheSewall-SaffinDebate”

THURSDAY 12

• SusanImbarrato,MinnesotaStateUniversityMoorhead,“ProblematicBenevolence:ThePlantersandMerchants’Personae,St.Kitts&Grenada”

• StevenW.Thomas,WagnerCollege,ChairandCommentator3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

CoffeeBreak4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. MediaHistoriesofEvangelicalism–Maryland

• MatthewP.Brown,UniversityofIowa,“ControvertingWhitefield:Duty,Agency,andtheBookTrades”

• SethPerry,PrincetonUniversity,“ChronotopicCosmopolite:LorenzoDow’sChaininSpaceandTime”

• SoniaHazard,FranklinandMarshallCollege,“WhatDoesEvangelicalBenevolenceFeelLike?:TheAmericanTractSocietyandtheRitualsofPrintDistributioninEarlyAmerica”

• DanaLogan,JohnC.DanforthCenteronReligionandPolitics,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,Chair

PushingandPulling:ReligiousandPoliticalIdentitiesintheAmericanFounding–Forsyth

• SamuelAlonzoDodge,LehighUniversity,“‘PerverseDisputingsofMenofCorruptMinds’:ReligiousLiberty,Virtue,andtheSecuringoftheAmericanRepublic”

• Cho-ChienFeng,SaintLouisUniversity,“‘RestoringPeace,OrderandGoodGovernmentAgaininthisCountry’:thecultural-politicalassumptionsofAnglicanClergymeninRevolutionaryNewYork”

• JohnMorton,BostonCollege,“Thelessconnection…thisprovincehaswiththeAmericanStatesthebetter:Howchurchnetworksdefinedthenortheasternborder”

• TaraStrauch,CentreCollege,“‘AMirrorforAllPeople’:ReligiousIdentityinanEraofPoliticalCrisis”

• DavidHolland,HarvardDivinitySchool,ChairandCommentator

THURSDAY 13

ConversionTactics:Women’sReligiousandPoliticalAgency–Westminster

• WendyRoberts,UniversityatAlbany,SUNY,“‘ALadyinNewEngland’:TheEvangelicalVerseMinistryofSarahMoorhead”

• TheresaStrouthGaul,TexasChristianUniversity,“EvangelicalPrintCulture,‘PoorSarah,’andWomen’sCross-RacialAdvocacy”

• GretchenMurphy,UniversityofTexasatAustin,“TheProblemofRationalChristianityinCatharineMariaSedgwick’sRedwood”

• MelissaAdams-Campbell,NorthernIllinoisUniversity,ChairThePoliticsofDiseaseandDeathintheAtlanticWorld–Portland

• KristenBlock,UniversityofTennessee,Knoxville,“DrinkingGraveDirt:DeathbeyondDespairinEnslavedRitualandPractice”

• JanetMooreLindman,RowanUniversity,“‘ShouldProvidenceordainsicknessforthyportion’:Spirituality,DiseaseandDeathamongPhiladelphiaQuakerWomen”

• ErikSeeman,UniversityatBuffalo(SUNY),“TheProtestantCultoftheDead,1800-1848”

• ErikSeeman,UniversityatBuffalo(SUNY),ChairPreventingHarassmentandFosteringEthicalMentoringinAcademiaandOurField:AnOpenDiscussion–Waterman

• GordonSayre,UniversityofOregon,Moderator• LauraStevens,UniversityofTulsa,ModeratorInthewakeofrecentnewsaboutwidespreadsexualharassmentandabusebothinacademiaandbeyond,theSocietyofEarlyAmericanists’leadershipwelcomesallattendeesofthisconferencetoparticipateinamoderatedbutopendiscussionaboutwhatmeasureswecantake,inthefieldofearlyAmericanStudiesbutalsomorebroadlyinhighereducation,tofosterinclusiveenvironmentsinwhichallparticipantsarerespectedandarefreefromharassment,discrimination,orabuse.Pleasenote:asecondmeetingisscheduledforSaturdaymorning,forfurtherdiscussionandforthoseunabletomakethisdiscussion.

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. OpeningReception,ZodiacRoom,ChaseParkPlaza Drinkticketincludedinconferenceregistration

LightHorsD’oeuvresServed

FRIDAY 14

Friday, March 2

9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

MaterialIdentitiesandAmericanTheologies–MarylandMaterialCulture,Religion,andPoliticsinEarlyAmerica#1SeriesOrganizer,CarolineWigginton(sponsoredbyAmericanCultureStudies)• SophieWhite,UniversityofNotreDame,“Louison’sCorset:SlaveryandCatholicisminFrenchColonialLouisiana”

• DanielleSkeehan,OberlinCollege,“‘AHieroglyphicofFeathers’:Masking,Marking,andRepresentingIndigeneityinEarly”

• LaurenHeintz,PomonaCollege,“JohnBrown'sBodyPolitics:Cross-RacialDesireandtheQueerEcstatic”

• JasonLaFountain,SchooloftheArtInstituteofChicago,“PlyingPuritan:MichaelFried,CarlAndre,HollisFrampton”

• MichaelGaudio,UniversityofMinnesota,ChairandCommentatorFiliopiety’sPresentism–Forsyth

• KirstenSilvaGruesz,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz,“TheOppositeofPatrimonyisnotMatrimony:GenderingMatherStudies”

• AlanNiles,HarvardUniversity,“KingPhilip’sWarandtheImpulsetoPrint:TheCaseoftheColonyLaws”

• AnaSchwartz,UniversityofPennsylvania,“Belief,Bequeathed:Redemption,Resentment,andtheRageofthePeople”

• LauraSoderberg,WashingtonCollege,“TheDouble-BindoftheBlackInfantasProdigy:Race,Medicine,andChristianKinship”

• AjayKumarBatra,UniversityofPennsylvania,ChairandCommentatorEarlyPossibilitiesforReligiousDisestablishment–Westminster

DissentandReligiousDisestablishmentintheAmericanStates#1SeriesOrganizers,JonathanDenHartogandCarlH.Esbeck• JamesKabala,RhodeIslandCollege,“RhodeIsland”• DavidLittle,GeorgetownUniversity,“Pennsylvania”• JohnFea,MessiahCollege,“NewJersey”• NicholasMiller,AndrewsUniversity,ChairandCommentator

FRIDAY 15

IndianMissionsandtheChurch-StateConundrum–Waterman

ReligionandPoliticsinEarlyAmericanMissions#1SeriesOrganizer,BrianFranklin• RachelWheeler,IndianaUniversity-PurdueUniversity,“ContemporaryPoliticsandtheStudyofEarlyAmericanMissions”

• BrianR.Franklin,SouthernMethodistUniversity,“Church-StateCooperationinAmericanHomeMissionstoIndians,1796-1815”

• JenniferGraber,UniversityofTexasatAustin,“TheCatholic-ProtestantProblemintheDevelopmentofFederalIndianPolicy”

• JoshuaRice,CorbanUniversity,“ReligiousEstablishmentandtheRiseandDevelopmentoftheCivilizationFund”

• RichardPointer,WestmontCollege,ChairTheRevisionofAdversityinPuritanPolitics–Portland

• JohnDavidMiles,UniversityofMemphis,“‘Singularregarduntothesimpletruth’:Bradford,Plymouth,andtheSuccessoftheDeclensionNarrative”

• KatharineCampbell,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,“TheDifferentHistoriographicalMethodsofCottonMather’sMagnaliaChristiAmericana”

• DanWalden,BaylorUniversity,“TheArkofState:Politics,Religion,andProvidenceintheSeventeenthCentury”

• KacyTillman,UniversityofTampa,Chair 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Lunch:StarlightBallroom,ChaseParkPlazaLunchbuffetserved(includedinconferenceregistration)12:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

SacredObjectsintheNewNation–MarylandMaterialCulture,Religion,andPoliticsinEarlyAmerica#2SeriesOrganizer,CarolineWigginton(sponsoredbyAmericanCultureStudies)• ChristopherM.B.Allison,UniversityofChicago,“JaneMcCreaandtheFragmentsofSacredSacrifice”

FRIDAY 16

• MartinBruckner,UniversityofDelaware,“SacredCartographies:AmericanMapperyandtheRefugeofTransitionalObjects”

• JamieL.Brummitt,DukeUniversity,“‘InvaluableRelique[s]oftheHeroandthePatriot’:MourningforGeorgeWashingtonandtheForgingofaNewNation”

• SallyPromey,YaleUniversity,ChairandCommentatorRoundtable:WilliamPennat300–Forsyth

WilliamPennandtheQuakerLegacy#1SeriesOrganizer,AndrewMurphy• StephenAngell,EarlhamSchoolofReligion• ThomasHamm,EarlhamCollege• MarieMcDaniel,SouthernConnecticutStateUniversity• AndrewMurphy,RutgersUniversity• ElizabethMilroy,DrexelUniversity

MissionariesandtheGlobalPoliticsofColonization–Waterman

Colonial/Global#1SeriesOrganizer,StephanieKirk(sponsoredbyREH)

• SantaArias,UniversityofKansas,“GeographicalEdgesattheBourbonCourt:California,Florida,PhilippinesandPuertoRicoaccordingtotheBenedictineFriarIñigoAbbadyLasierra”

• SarahRivett,PrincetonUniversity,"MissionaryImperialismandIndigenousAllianceintheSevenYearsWar"

• RalphBauer,UniversityofMaryland,"PhysiciansoftheSoul:LlullismandMissionaryScienceintheEarlyAmericas."

• StephanieKirk,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,ChairMissionsandtheNationalVision–Portland

ReligionandPoliticsinEarlyAmericanMissions#2SeriesOrganizer,BrianFranklin• MatthewSmith,MiamiUniversity-Hamilton,“Missions,Revivalism,andRepublicanismontheFrontier”

• ScottLibson,IndianaUniversity,“‘InconceivablyImportant’:TheWorkofItinerantAgentsandtheEarlyAmericanBoardConstituency”

FRIDAY 17

• CalebMaskell,PrincetonUniversity,“'TheTimesArePregnantWithGreatEvents’:EschatologicalImaginationandNationalEvangelicalBenevolence,1815-1820”

• BartonPrice,IndianaUniversity-PurdueUniversityFortWayne,“AmericanHomeMissionsasOccidentalism”

• BrianFranklin,SouthernMethodistUniversity,ChairCommunalIdentityinPuritanNewEngland–Westminster

• RichardCogley,SouthernMethodistUniversity,“NewEnglandasNewIsrael:TheCaseForandtheCaseAgainst”

• CynthiaVanZandt,UniversityofNewHampshire,“NewEngland’sEbenezer,TheRestoration,andtheTrans-AtlanticPoliticalUnderground”

• LucasHardy,YoungstownStateUniversity,“CommunitiesofAfflictioninPuritanNewEngland”

• JonathanBaddley,HarvardDivinitySchool,“‘ThoseWhoAddImpenitencytoIniquity’:TheologicalAnthropologyandCapitalPunishmentinColonialNewEngland”

• JoannevanderWoude,UniversityofGroningen,Chair2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

TheMaterialWord–MarylandMaterialCulture,Religion,andPoliticsinEarlyAmerica#3SeriesOrganizer,CarolineWigginton(sponsoredbyAmericanCultureStudies)• ChristopherN.Phillips,LafayetteCollege,“ThisHymnbook’sBoundtoPoetry;or,TheGenreoftheMoroccoBindinginEighteenth-CenturyBritishAmerica”

• JohnJ.Garcia,CaliforniaStateUniversity,Northridge,“TheBookseller’sNetwork:CirculatingConsumerGoodsintheWarforIndependence”

• ChristenMucher,SmithCollege,“TheNaturalHistoryoftheBibleandtheAmericanObjectificationof‘theEast’”

• DanielRadus,StateUniversityofNewYork,CollegeatCortland,“BirchbarkBibles:IndigenousMediaandthePoliticsofReligion”

• HilaryWyss,TrinityCollege,ChairandCommentator

FRIDAY 18

PuritanismandQuakerismRevisited–ForsythWilliamPennandtheQuakerLegacy#2SeriesOrganizer,AndrewMurphy• AnnaHellier,TheSorbonne,“BreakingDowntheRestorationBarrier:RadicalDiscourseandPoliticalEngagementBeforethe‘HolyExperiment’”

• AdrianWeimer,ProvidenceCollege,“Quakers,Puritans,andtheTheologyofCivilDisobedienceintheEarlyRestoration”

• MarieTaylor,PurdueUniversity,“ApostatesintheWoods:Quakers,PrayingIndians,andCircuitsofCommunicationinHumphreyNorton’sNew-England’sEnsigne”

• AndrewMurphy,RutgersUniversity,ChairPluralism,Religion,andFreedom–Portland

• KatharineGerbner,UniversityofMinnesota,“MissionariesandMaroons:TheReligiousPoliticsofFreedomin18thcenturyJamaica”

• SaraPartridge,NewYorkUniversity,“RogerWilliamsamongtheNarragansett”• DanielRoeber,FloridaStateUniversity,“ChurchinState:ReligiousServicesintheU.S.CapitolBuilding”

• E.ThomsonShields,Jr.,EastCarolinaUniversity,ChairRevolutionaryFermentforReligiousDisestablishment–Westminster

DissentandReligiousDisestablishmentintheAmericanStates#2SeriesOrganizers,JonathanDenHartogandCarlH.Esbeck• NicholasMiller,AndrewsUniversity,“NorthCarolina”• KyleBulthuis,UtahStateUniversity,“NewYork”• CarlH.Esbeck,UniversityofMissouriSchoolofLaw,“Virginia”• MilesSmithIV,RegentUniversity,“SouthCarolina”• JohnFea,MessiahCollege,ChairandCommentator

HowtheIntersectionofReligionandPoliticsShapesourWorkasHistoriansDanforthCenteronReligionandPoliticsSpecialPanel–Waterman

• MarieGriffith,JohnC.DanforthCenteronReligionandPolitics• LaurieMaffly-Kipp,JohnC.DanforthCenteronReligionandPolitics• LeighSchmidt,JohnC.DanforthCenteronReligionandPolitics• MarkValeri,JohnC.DanforthCenteronReligionandPolitics

FRIDAY 19

4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

CoffeeBreak4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

EuropeanContextsforAmericanReligionandPolitics–MarylandPanelsponsoredbytheEighteenth-CenturySalonandtheReligiousStudiesProgramatWashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis• DavidD.Hall,HarvardDivinitySchool,Emeritus,“ShakingKingsbytheSleeve:TheIntensePoliticsofChurchandStateinBritainandNewEngland,1570-1640”

• JonathanSheehan,UniversityofCaliforniaBerkeley,“BloodSacrifice:TheologyandtheHistoryofCivilReligion”

• AbramVanEngen,ChairThePowerofPartisanship:NewPerspectivesonPoliticsandReligionintheEarlyAmericanRepublic–Forsyth

• AdamJortner,AuburnUniversity,“ThePatriotTorah:TheSeixasBrothers,Washington’sLetters,andanAmericanJewryinaChristianNation,1776-1790”

• KirstenFischer,UniversityofMinnesota,“DemocraticAnxiety:FearsaboutReligiousFreethoughtandPoliticalSeditionintheEarlyAmericanRepublic”

• MatthewRainbowHale,GoucherCollege,“DemocraticEcstasy,DemocraticRe-Enchantment:TheReligiousSignificanceofPro-FrenchAmericanPoliticalFervorintheMid-1790s”

• EricSchlereth,UniversityofTexasatDallas,ChairandCommentatorNewSitesforIndigenousSovereignties–Waterman

NativeAmericanReligionandPolitics#1SeriesOrganizer,KellyWisecup• PatrickM.Erben,UniversityofWestGeorgia,“‘Thebloodflowedinstreams’:HymnodyandthePerformanceofIndigenousGenocideandResistanceatthe1782GnadenhuttenMassacre”

• CarolineWigginton,UniversityofMississippi,“HymncraftandSovereigntyintheNativeNortheast”

FRIDAY 20

• AlannaHickey,StanfordUniversity,“PoeticSovereigntiesintheRemovalEra.”• ChristineCroxall,JohnC.DanforthCenteronReligionandPolitics,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,Chair

IslamandPoliticsintheEarlyNation–Westminster

• ChristineSears,UniversityofAlabama-Huntsville,“FromSavagetoCivilized:AmericanCaptives’ComplicatedMuslimCaptors”

• JacobCrane,BentleyUniversity,“AmericanSecularismandthe1797TreatyofTripoli”

• JulieR.Voss,Lenoir-RhyneUniversity,“WhoaretheBarbarians?ChristianityandIslaminEarlyRepublicanPoliticalDiscourse”

• JasonM.Payton,SamHoustonStateUniversity,“‘PiraticalStates’inRoyallTyler’sTheAlgerineCaptive”

• NicholasE.Miller,HollinsUniversity,“NarrativesofDispossession:WashingtonIrving,Islam,andtheSpectralImagination”

• JacobCrane,BentleyUniversity,andJulieR.Voss,Lenoir-RhyneUniversity,Co-Chairs

ColloquywithPabloF.GómezonTheExperientialCaribbean–Portland

• CristobalSilva,ColumbiaUniversity• HermanBennett,CityUniversityofNewYork• PabloGómez,UniversityofWisconsin• ToniWallJaudon,HendrixCollege

Eveningatleisureanddinneronown

SATURDAY 21

Saturday, March 3 8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

CoffeeBreak8:10 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. PreventingHarassmentandFosteringEthicalMentoringinAcademiaandOurField:AnOpenDiscussion–Waterman

• KristinaBross,PurdueUniversity,Moderator• RalphBauer,UniversityofMaryland,ModeratorInthewakeofrecentnewsaboutwidespreadsexualharassmentandabusebothinacademiaandbeyond,theSocietyofEarlyAmericanists’leadershipwelcomesallattendeesofthisconferencetoparticipateinamoderatedbutopendiscussionaboutwhatmeasureswecantake,inthefieldofearlyAmericanStudiesbutalsomorebroadlyinhighereducation,tofosterinclusiveenvironmentsinwhichallparticipantsarerespectedandarefreefromharassment,discrimination,orabuse.

9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

BeyondEuropeanFrameworks:ConversionsandColonialisms–MarylandNativeAmericanReligionandPolitics#2SeriesOrganizer,KellyWisecup• AngelaCalcaterra,UniversityofNorthTexas,“The'NewMind':RethinkingConversioninIndianCountry”

• JeffreyGlover,LoyolaUniversityChicago,“TheGeopoliticsofFaith:RussianColonists,SpanishMissionaries,andNativePeoplesinEarlyCalifornia”

• DrewLopenzina,OldDominionUniversity,“WilliamApess,StandingRock,andthe1833ResistancetoMashpeeAssetsPlundering#NOMAPL”

• KellyWisecup,NorthwesternUniversity,Chair

SATURDAY 22

ThePowerandPurposesofNarrative–Forsyth

• AprilC.Langley,UniversityofMissouri-Columbia,“#earlyblackChristianwomenslivesmatter:SpiritualityandSocialJusticeMovementsin18thand19th-centuryAmerica”

• AndrewDyrliHermeling,LehighUniversity,“PropheticorRealpolitik?:TheEvolvingPoliticsofNeolin’sVisions”

• HannahWakefield,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,“TheVanishingSectarian:NarrativesofReligiousConsensusinJamesFenimoreCooper’sThePioneers”

• E.ThomsonShields,Jr.,EastCarolinaUniversity,ChairSeriesSummation–Portland

MaterialCulture,Religion,andPoliticsinEarlyAmerica#4SeriesOrganizer,CarolineWigginton(sponsoredbyAmericanCultureStudies)

• LedbyCarolineWigginton,UniversityofMississippi• Pleasenote:thisisaclosedsession,openonlyformembersoftheseries.

ReligiousDisestablishmentintheSouthandWest–Westminster

DissentandReligiousDisestablishmentintheAmericanStates#3SeriesOrganizers,JonathanDenHartogandCarlH.Esbeck• JoelNichols,UniversityofSt.ThomasSchoolofLaw,“Georgia”• KevinPybas,MissouriStateUniversity,“LouisianaandMissouri”• MichaelBreidenbach,AveMariaUniversity,“Maryland”• CarlH.Esbeck,UniversityofMissouriSchoolofLaw,ChairandCommentator

Legacies–Waterman

WilliamPennandtheQuakerLegacy#3SeriesOrganizer,AndrewMurphy• SandraGustafson,UniversityofNotreDame,“WilliamPennandthePeaceMovement”

• JayD.Miller,UniversityofNotreDame,“WoolmanintheAftermathofPenn”

SATURDAY 23

• JessicaChoppinRoney,TempleUniversity,“PennandInk:DrawingandRedrawingPhiladelphia”

• JohnSmolenski,UniversityofCalifornia-Davis,“WilliamPennandtheCreationofaCreolePennsylvania”

• AndrewMurphy,RutgersUniversity,Chair11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Cross-CulturalExchanges–MarylandNativeAmericanReligionandPolitics#3SeriesOrganizer,KellyWisecup• AndrewNewman,StonyBrookUniversity,“‘InaStrangeLand:’ChristianIndiansandPsalm137”

• MarieBalsleyTaylor,PurdueUniversity,“ReconfiguringReciprocity:TheRoleofIndigenousReligioninNewEnglandMissionaryTexts”

• RowenaMcClinton,SouthernIllinoisUniversityEdwardsville,“CherokeeSpiritualitySurfacesWhenConfrontingSettlerEncroachmentonLandandResources:CherokeeResponsestoTreatyCessionsBeginningwiththe1785TreatyofHopewell”

• KristinaBross,PurdueUniversity,ChairandCommentatorReligionandImperialSettlementProgramsinEighteenth-CenturyNorthAmerica–Forsyth

• MargaretBrennan,UniversityofIllinois,“‘OurAfflictedBrethren’:MakingPalatineRefugeesintheAtlanticWorld”

• CraigGallagher,BostonCollege,“RefugeeImperialism:CreatingProtestantZealotsinBritishNorthAmerica,1730-1763”

• AlexandraL.Montgomery,UniversityofPennsylvania,“WhoseProtestantEmpire?SettlerExpansionintheNortheastandDissenterFear,1748-1775”

• CharlesParker,SaintLouisUniversity,ChairandCommentator

SATURDAY 24

GlobalCirculationsofRitualandPerformance–WestminsterColonial/Global#2SeriesOrganizer,StephanieKirk(sponsoredbyREH)

• MiguelValerio,WashingtonUniversity,“BlackFestivalPerformances:GlobalPracticesinColonialContext"

• LisaVoigt,OhioStateUniversity,“TheRepresentationofBrazilinJesuitCelebrationsinLisbon”

• RicardoPadrón,UniversityofVirginia,“ConfusionsofIdentity:TheSpanishEncounterwithJapaneseReligionandtheGlassCeilingofEurocentrism.”

• MiguelMartínez,UniversityofChicago,“CivicRitualandPopularCultureintheSpanishPhilippines.”

TransatlanticRelationsbetweenNationsandDenominations–Portland

ReligionandPoliticsinEarlyAmericanMissions#3SeriesOrganizer,BrianFranklin• EmilyConroy-Krutz,MichiganStateUniversity,“WomenandForeignMissionsintheABCFMandtheLondonMissionarySociety”

• ChristopherJones,BrighamYoungUniversity,“MethodistMissionsandDivisionsinBritain’sMaritimeandCanadianColonies,1785-1815”

• AshleyMoreshead-Pilkington,UniversityofCentralFlorida,“AmericanandBritishBaptistMissionaryCooperation,1790-1815”

• BrianFranklin,SouthernMethodistUniversity,ChairSettlersandNatives–Waterman

WilliamPennandtheQuakerLegacy#4SeriesOrganizer,AndrewMurphy• JaneE.Calvert,UniversityofKentucky,“JohnDickinsonandNativeAmericans:RomanceandRightsattheFounding”

• NicoleEustace,NewYorkUniversity,“CrimeandPassion:EmotionandCross-CulturalConflictResolutioninEarlyPennsylvania”

• MichaelGoode,UtahValleyUniversity,“TheTwoFacesofPenn:PeaceasaWeaponofTreatyMakinginAmericanHistory”

• RaymondBatchelor,TexasA&MUniversity,“TeedyuscungSeizestheTomahawk:MasculinePerformanceasPoliticalStrategyintheDelawareRevolutionof1755-1756”

SATURDAY 25

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

SocietyofEarlyAmericanistsbusinessmeeting–MarylandLightsnacksandsoftdrinksprovided

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Lunchonown2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Penn'sAtlanticWorldandBeyond–MarylandWilliamPennandtheQuakerLegacy#5SeriesOrganizer,AndrewMurphy• KateCarteEngel,SouthernMethodistUniversity,“‘ADangerousandUnnaturalWar’:TheAmericanRevolutionandtheEndofTransatlanticReligion”

• OwenStanwood,BostonCollege,“RefugeePoliticsintheAgeofWilliamPenn:TheCaseoftheHuguenots”

• AndrewMurphy,RutgersUniversity,ChairLaw,Liberty,andReligioninEarlyAmerica–Forsyth

• ScottCulpepper,DordtCollege,“UnderstandingReligiousPerspectivesontheAlienandSeditionActs”

• KadenIvy,UniversityofNotreDame,“TreasonOnstage!:StagingCapitalPunishmentDebatesinWilliamDunlap'sAndré”

• MatthewHarrington,UniversitédeMontréal,“TheSupremeCourt,ReligionandtheEducationofthePeopleintheEarlyRepublic”

• GeneZubovich,JohnC.DanforthCenteronReligionandPolitics,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,Chair

SATURDAY 26

RevisitingPlainStyle:TheAestheticsofNativeSpeechandBodyPolitics–WatermanNativeAmericanReligionandPolitics#4SeriesOrganizer,KellyWisecup• NatalieSpar,LincolnMemorialUniversity,“Traduttore,Traditore:ThomasShepardandtheCruxofNativeTranslations”

• SteffiDippold,KansasStateUniversity,“AKnotofComelyRibbons;orWhyCottonMatherLikedtoUndressJohnEliot”

• JohnH.Pollack,UniversityofPennsylvania,“WordsfromtheNorth:FrenchMissionariesandNativeAmericanEloquence”

• AndrewNewman,StonyBrookUniversity,ChairReligiousDisestablishmentsinNewEngland–Portland

DissentandReligiousDisestablishmentintheAmericanStates#4SeriesOrganizers,JonathanDenHartogandCarlH.Esbeck• BrianFranklin,SouthernMethodistUniversity,“NewHampshire”• ShelbyM.Balik,MetropolitanStateUniversityofDenver,“Vermont”• JonathanDenHartog,UniversityofNorthwestern-St.Paul,MN,ChairandCommentator

AnglicanismandAllegianceintheAmericanRevolution–Westminster

• SpencerW.McBride,JosephSmithPapers,“ToPray,orNottoPray,fortheKing:AnglicanClergymenandLiturgicalPoliticsintheAmericanRevolution”

• RossA.Newton,“Politics,Allegiance,andTenderTies:LayAnglicansinRevolutionaryBoston”

• PeterW.Walker,ProvidenceCollege,“ThePulpitDrumEcclesiastic:PreachingReligionandPoliticsDuringtheAmericanRevolution”

• AmandaPorterfield,FloridaStateUniversity,ChairandCommentator

SATURDAY 27

3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. DeepTimeinPlace:ReframingtheTemporalandMethodologicalBoundsofEarlyAmerica–Maryland

NativeAmericanReligionandPolitics#5SeriesOrganizer,KellyWisecup• LisaBrooks,AmherstCollege,“TheMotherCornEra:DynamicTransformationandExchangeinCahokia’sNetworkofWaterways”

• LeAnneHowe,“SitesofReturn:MoundsandEarthworksinPerformance”• ChristineDeLucia,Mt.HolyokeCollege,“IndigenousCollectingandCaretakingfromDeepTimetoColonialism”

• GordonSayre,UniversityofOregon,ChairPuritanInterculturalandInterracialRelations–Forsyth

• JonathanBeecherField,ClemsonUniversity,“Synods,Towns,andSettlers”• HannahManshel,UniversityofCaliforniaRiverside,“‘AltogetherWithoutForm’:AntinomianismandBlackRebelliousnessinProvidenceIsland”

• MelissaAdams-Campbell,NorthernIllinoisUniversity,“SovereignDomesticities:ReligionandPoliticsinWeetamoo’sWigwam”

• ZachHutchins,ColoradoStateUniversity,“‘AHopeMaintainedinSumNegro’:TheSewallFamilyandtheArsonAttacksof1723”

• DanWalden,BaylorUniversity,ChairGlobalSpacesandtheCreationofColonialSubjects–Waterman

Colonial/Global#3SeriesOrganizer,StephanieKirk(sponsoredbyREH)

• AnnaMore,UniversidadedeBrasília:“Globalization,CorporationsandtheIberianSlaveTrade"

• DavidKazanjian,UniversityofPennsylvania:“AccumulationbyPossession:SubalternRevisionsofDispossessionintheAmericas,1690-1703"

• AnnaBrickhouse,UniversityofVirginia"EarthquakeAesthetics”• MariselleMeléndez,UniversityofIllinois,"Cartography,Globalism,andPatrioticEnlightenment:TheCaseofthePortCityofSanJuanBautistadePuertoRico"

SATURDAY 28

• MónicaDíaz,UniversityofKentucky,“GlobalEnlightenmentandIndigenousEducation”

• StephanieKirk,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,ChairSeriesSummation–Portland

DissentandReligiousDisestablishmentintheAmericanStates#5

• JonathanDenHartog,UniversityofNorthwestern-St.Paul• CarlH.Esbeck,UniversityofMissouriSchoolofLaw

PoliticalTheologiesofRaceintheAtlanticWorld–Westminster

• AlexanderMazzaferro,RutgersUniversity,“CompassesandChristians:RichardLigon’sPoliticalTheologyofSlavery”

• LauraM.Stevens,UniversityofTulsa,“TheDivisionsandDesiresofPatrickGordon’sGeographyAnatomized(1693)”

• ChristopherTrigg,NanyangTechnologicalUniversity,“RobedinWhite:TheRacialPoliticsofCottonMather’sMillennium”

• HeatherMiyanoKopelson,UniversityofAlabama,ChairandCommentator 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

ShuttletransportationisavailabletoandfromtheLindellBlvd.entranceoftheChaseParkPlazatoWashingtonUniversity,HolmesLounge6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

ClosingReception,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,HolmesLoungeComplimentaryBarandFoodStationsTributetoSandraGustafson,forhersuperbserviceandleadershipaseditorofEarlyAmericanLiteratureAnnouncingthewinneroftheEarlyAmericanLiteraturebookprize.

8:30 p.m.

LastshuttletransfertotheChaseParkPlaza

SUNDAY 29

Sunday, March 4 8:30 a.m.

MotorcoachtransportationdepartsfromtheLindellBlvd.entranceoftheChaseParkPlazatoCahokiaMounds9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

CahokiaMoundsvisit12:30 p.m.

ArrivebackattheChaseParkPlaza

INDEX 30

INDEXSeriesOrganizers:Friday&SaturdayDenHartog,JonathanEsbeck,CarlH.Franklin,BrianKirk,StephanieMurphy,AndrewWigginton,CarolineWisecup,KellyParticipantsAdams-Campbell,Melissa,13,27Allison,Christopher,15Angell,Stephen,16Appelhans,Jeffrey,9Arias,Santa,16Awtrey,Jonathon,8Baaki,Brian,11Baddley,Jonathan,17Balik,Shelby,26BalsleyTaylor,Marie,23Bartlett,Joshua,11Batchelor,Raymond,24Batra,AjayKumar,14Bauer,Ralph,16Beales,Kristen,7Bennett,Herman,20Block,Kristen,13Boles,Richard,10Boonshoft,Mark,7Breidenbach,Michael,8,22Brennan,Margaret,23Brenner,Rebecca,10Brickhouse,Anna,27Brooks,Lisa,27Bross,Kristina,10,21,23Brown,Cullen,7Brown,Matthew,12Brown,Robert,9Bruckner,Martin,16Brummitt,Jamie,16

Calcaterra,Angela,21Calvert,JaneE.,24Campbell,Katharine,15Ceppi,Elisabeth,11ChoppinRoney,Jessica,23Cogley,Richard,17Conklin,Carli,9Conroy-Krutz,Emily,7,24Crane,Jacob,20Croxall,Christine,10,20Culpepper,Scott,25Dearing,Stacey,8DeLucia,Christine,27DenHartog,Jonathan,26,28Deslandres,Dominique,10Díaz,Mónica,28Dippold,Steffi,26Dodge,SamuelAlonzo,12Dubé,Alex,8Dye,Dusty,8Dyer,Justin,9DyrliHermeling,Andrew,22Engel,KateCarte,25Englebert,Robert,10Erben,Patrick,19Esbeck,CarlH.,18,22,28Eustace,Nicole,24Farrell,Molly,11Fea,John,14,18Feng,Cho-Chien,12Field,JonathanBeecher,27Fischer,Kirsten,19Franklin,BrianR.,15,26Gallagher,Craig,23Garcia,John,17Gary,David,7Gaudio,Michael,14

INDEX 31

Gaul,TheresaStrouth,13Gerbner,Katharine,18Glover,Jeffrey,21Gómez,Pablo,20Goode,Michael,24Gorman,Daniel,9Graber,Jennifer,15Griffith,Marie,18Gruesz,KirstenSilva,14Gustafson,Sandra,22Hale,MatthewRainbow,19Hamm,Thomas,16Hardy,Lucas,17Harrington,Matthew,25Hazard,Sonia,12Heintz,Lauren,14Heise,Steven,7Hellier,Anna,18Hickey,Alanna,20Hicks,Jacob,9Holland,David,12Howe,LeAnne,27Hutchins,Zach,27Imbarrato,Susan,12Ivy,Kaden,25Jaudon,ToniWall,20Johnson,Erica,8Jones,Christopher,24Jones,Linda,11Jortner,Adam,19Junkerman,Nicholas,8Kabala,James,14Kazanjian,David,27Kennedy,Rick,9Kirk,Stephanie,16,24,27Kopelson,Heather,28Krise,Tom,11LaFountain,Jason,14Langley,April,22LeGlaunec,Jean-Pierre,10Leavelle,Tracy,11

Libson,Scott,16Lindman,JanetMoore,13Little,David,14Lopenzina,Drew,21Logan,Dana,12Maddux,Clark,9,11Maffly-Kipp,Laurie,18Mandell,Daniel,10Manshel,Hannah,27Martínez,Miguel,24Maskell,Caleb,17Mazzaferro,Alex,28McBride,Spencer,26McClinton,Rowena,23McDaniel,Marie,16Meléndez,Mariselle,27Miles,JohnDavid,15Miller,JayD.,22Miller,Nicholas,14,18Miller,Nick,11,20Milroy,Lily,16Montgomery,Alexandra,23Moore,Dennis,11More,Anna,27Moreshead-Pilkington,Ashley,24Morton,John,12Mucher,Christen,17Murphy,Andrew,16Murphy,Gretchen,13Newman,Andrew,23,26Newton,RossA.,26Nichols,Joel,22Niles,Alan,14Pacholl,Keith,8Padrón,Ricardo,24Park,Benjamin,8Parker,Charles,23Partridge,Sara,18Pasley,Jeffrey,9Payton,Jason,20Penick,Alyssa,7Perry,Seth,12Phillips,Christopher,17

INDEX 32

Pointer,Richard,15Pollack,John,26Porterfield,Amanda,26Price,Barton,17Price,Hunter,7Promey,Sally,16Pybas,Kevin,22Radus,Daniel,17Rice,Joshua,15Rivett,Sarah,16Roberts,Wendy,13Roeber,Daniel,18Ross,Andrew,9Sassi,Jonathan,7Sayre,Gordon,13,27Scanlan,Tom,9Schlereth,Eric,19Schmidt,Leigh,18Schwartz,Ana,11,14Sears,Christine,20Seeman,Erik,13Shaffer,Jason,11Sheehan,Johnathan,19Shields,E.Thomson,18,22Silva,Cristobal,20Sirota,Brent,7Skeehan,Danielle,14Smith,Cassander,10Smith,Matthew,16Smith,MilesIV,18Smolenski,John,23Smolinski,Reiner,11Soderberg,Laura,14Spar,Natalie,26Stanwood,Owen,25Stevens,Laura,13,21,28Stievermann,Jan,9,11Strauch,Tara,12Thomas,Steven,10,12Tillman,Kacy,15Trigg,Chris,28Valeri,Mark,8,18

Valerio,Miguel,24vanderWoude,Joanne,17VanEngen,Abram,19VanZandt,Cynthia,17Villerbu,Tangi,10Voigt,Lisa,24Voss,Julie,20Walden,Dan,15,27Walker,Peter,26Wakefield,Hannah,22Watts,Edward,11Weimer,Adrian,18Wheeler,Rachel,15White,Sophie,14Wigginton,Caroline,19,22Winiarski,Doug,10,11Wisecup,Kelly,21Wyss,Hilary,11,17