Research Fellowship Program

2018

Christopher W. Anderson, graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, for "The Environmental History of Outdoor Ministry, 1945-2008"

Youngeun Koo, graduate student at the University of Tuebingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), Germany, for "'Children in Need' and Intercountry Adoption from South Korea (1953-1979)"

Johanna L. Peterson, graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, for "'A Measure of All Nations': Girls' Schools and Constructions of Citizenship in Lebanon, 1919-1951"

2017

2016

Dr. Heath W. Carter, Assistant Professor of History at Valparaiso University, for The Kingdom May Yet Reign: The Social Gospel in American Life

Paul Emory Putz, graduate student at Baylor University, for “Champions of Faith: Cold War America and the Rise of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (1954-1970)”

Debra Faith Skiles, graduate student at Virginia Tech University, for “Presbyterian Women Missionaries and the Development of Korean Christianity”

2015

Dr. Yaqoob Bangash, Forman Christian College, for his book project, Literacy and Character Building: The American Presbyterian Mission in the Punjab, 1849-1972.

Julian Cole Phillips, graduate student at New York University, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, for his project, "Iranian Students in the Tehran Community School, 1935-1980."

2014

Dr. Christopher Pearl, Lycoming College, for his book project, “For the Good Order of Government”: The American Revolution and the Creation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1740-1799.

Scott Libson, Ph.D. candidate at Emory University, for his dissertation, “The Christianization of Capital: The Business of Mission Movement Fundraising, 1865-1929.”

2013

Kristen A. Shedd, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara, "The Decline of Moral and Political Authority: Mainstream Protestants in McCarthyite America."

Noel C. Stringham, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia, "Nuer Strategies of Inclusion: Gender and Religion in South Sudan (1805-2006)."

2012

Christopher Schlect, Ph.D. candidate, Washington State University, "Battle for the Good Earth: Empire and Gender Meet Fundamentalism and Modernism."

Gene Zubovich, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Berkeley, "Protestant Social Consciousness in the 1940s."

2011

Beth Hessel-Robinson, Ph.D. candidate, Texas Christian University, "'Let the conscience of Christian America speak!': How White Protestant Churches Responded to the Evacuation and Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II."

Shing-Ting Lin, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University, "The Female Hand: The Making of Professional Women’s Medicine in Modern China, 1880-1940."

2010

Stephen Dove, Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas at Austin, "Creating Local Protestantism in Guatemala, 1882-1935."

G. Kurt Piehler, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, A Religious History of the American GI in World War II.

2009

Robert Bauman, Associate Professor, Washington State University, Religion, Community Organizations, and the Long War on Poverty.

John Hardin, Ph.D. candidate, University of Maryland, "Retailing Religion: Corporate Advertising and Marketing in American Christian Churches, 1900-2000."

2008

Matthew McCullough, Ph.D. candidate, Vanderbilt University, "To Extend the Blessings of Liberty: Protestant Missions and the Language of Expansion in the Spanish-American War."

C. Scott Nesbitt, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia, "The Politics of Forgiveness after Slavery and the American Civil War."

2007

Joshua Allen Paddison, Ph.D. candidate, University of California at Los Angeles, "American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California."

LeeAnn Reynolds, Ph.D. candidate, Vanderbilt University, "Red and Yellow, Black and White: Maintaining Segregation, 1920-1955."

2006

Zahra Pamela Karimi, Ph.D. candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Role of American Presbyterian Missionaries in Reforming Iranian Domesticity, 1838-1945."

Kyle B. Roberts, graduate student, University of Pennsylvania, "Presbyterian Evangelicals in Early New York City."

2005

Ellen J. Fleischmann, University of Dayton, Under an American Roof: The Encounter among Women of Greater Syria and American Protestant Women, 1830-1950.

Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, California State University, San Marcos, Gender, Class, and Nation: The Women's Press and Education Reform in Iran, 1890s-1950s.

Gardiner Humphrey Shattuck, Jr., American Protestant Responses to Genocide, 1915-1950.

Andrew Witmer, University of Virginia, The Color of Faith: Protestant Foreign Missions to Africa and American Approaches to Race.

2004

Richard J. Bell, graduate student, Harvard University, "Daily Lifting the Poisoned Bowl: Reform and Suicide in the Early Republic."

James F. Findlay, Jr., Professor Emeritus, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, A History of the National Council of Churches of Christ in America 1974-2004: An Exploratory Essay.

Sean Michael Lucas, Adjunct Professor of Church History, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, For a Continuing Presbyterian Church: Conservative Dissent in the Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1924-1974.

Karen Fisher Younger, Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University, Female Colonization Supporters in Antebellum America.