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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
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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
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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
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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