Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation

Contributors

345 Contributors Beth Barton Schweiger Beth Barton Schweiger teaches the history of the early United States at the University of Arkansas. Her first book was a social history of religion in the nineteenth-century South. She has also co-edited, with Donald G. Mathews, a collection of essays on religion in the South. She is completing a study of reading and writing in the early nineteenth century. Una M. Cadegan Una M. Cadegan is an associate professor at the University of Dayton, teaching courses in U.S. culture and cultural history in the department of history and the American studies program. She holds a Ph.D. in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and publications explore the history of U.S. Catholic literary culture in the twentieth century. Lendol Calder Lendol Calder is professor of history at Augustana College in Illinois. A Carnegie Scholar, he works with others in the emergent field of the scholarship of teaching and learning to invent and share new models for teaching and learning at the post-secondary level. Currently he represents the Organization of American Historians on the board of the National Council for History Education. John Fea John Fea teaches American history at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America and Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Primer (forthcoming). 346   Contributors Jay Green Jay Green is in his twelfth year teaching history at Covenant College atop Lookout Mountain, Georgia. He and his wife have three school-aged children, and together make their home in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is working on a book about Christian faith and public remembrance in American culture. Bradley J. Gundlach Bradley J. Gundlach is associate professor of history at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. He specializes in American intellectual , cultural, and religious history and also enjoys teaching broadly in world civilization, church history, and the philosophy and methods of history. He has made extensive study of the history of the evangelical engagement with evolutionary thought and is currently at work on a biography of Princeton theologian B.B. Warfield. Thomas Albert Howard Thomas Albert “Tal” Howard is associate professor of history and director of the Jerusalem and Athens Forum at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. He is the author of several publications, including Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University, winner of the Lilly Fellows Program Book Award for 2007, and God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (forthcoming). William Katerberg William Katerberg is associate professor of history and director of the Western American Studies Program at Calvin College in Grand Rapids , Michigan. He is also editor of Fides et Historia, the journal of the Conference on Faith and History. His most recent publications are Conquests and Consequences: The American West from Frontier to Region (co-written with Carol L. Higham) and Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction. Michael Kugler Michael Kugler teaches European history at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. His recent work focuses on Enlightenment debates Contributors   347 about the theater, theological debates in the Enlightenment, and scholarly debates about the character of the Enlightenment era. James B. LaGrand James B. LaGrand is professor of history at Messiah College. He is the author of Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945–75 and several articles on modern American history. Wilfred M. McClay Wilfred M. McClay holds the SunTrust Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and is the author of The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, which won the Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians. Robert Tracy McKenzie Robert Tracy McKenzie is associate professor of history at the University of Washington. He is the author of One South or Many? Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War–Era Tennessee, which received awards from the American Historical Association’s Pacific Coast Branch and the Agricultural History Society. Eric Miller Eric Miller is associate professor of American history at Geneva College, in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch. His essays have appeared in a range of publications, including Christianity Today, The Cresset, First Things, and Books and Culture. Mark R. Schwehn Mark R. Schwehn is Provost and Executive Vice...