Tom Smith is Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. This interview is based on his new book, Word across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories (Cornell University Press, 2024). […]
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The Author’s Corner with Jeremy Beer
Jeremy Beer is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of AmPhil. This interview is based on his new book, Beyond the Devil’s Road: Francisco Garcés and the Spanish Encounter with the American Southwest (University of Oklahoma Press, 2024). JF: What led you […]
The Author’s Corner with Mark Valeri
Mark Valeri is the Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. This interview is based on his new book, The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty (Oxford […]
Ideas in Progress: Julie Durbin on vocation, mission, teaching, and the creative life (Part I)
I have gotten glimpses but would love to hear more about your vocational life so far. You are currently an academic, but you have also spent a significant part of your life on the mission field in Ukraine. What was this like? What […]
The Author’s Corner with Christian Goodwillie
Christian Goodwillie is Director and Curator of Special Collections at Hamilton College, Burke Library and Associate Editor of the Richard W. Couper Press. This interview is based on his new book, Richard McNemar: Frontier Heretic and Shaker Apostle (Indiana University […]
The Author’s Corner with John Rogers Haddad
John Rogers Haddad is Professor of American Studies at Penn State–Harrisburg. This interview is based on his new book, Cultures Colliding: American Missionaries, Chinese Resistance, and the Rise of Modern Institutions in China (Temple University Press, 2023). JF: What led […]
Haiti missionaries released
This is great news and an answer to prayer. Here is the Miami Herald: A Haiti gang has released all 12 hostages two months to the day that they were kidnapped in Haiti’s capital, Haiti National Police Spokesman Garry Desrosiers […]