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...
religious history
The Author’s Corner with Leah Mickens
Leah Mickens is August Wilson Project Archivist at the University of Pittsburgh. This interview is based on her new book, In the Shadow of Ebenezer: A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II (NYU Press,...
The Author’s Corner with Rodney Hessinger
Rodney Hessinger is Professor of History and Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at John Carroll University. This interview is based on his new book, Smitten: Sex, Gender, and the Contest for Souls in the Second Great Awakening (Cornell...
The Author’s Corner with Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith is Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Regional Director of Public Programming at Miami University of Ohio. This interview is based on his new book, The Spires Still Point to Heaven: Cincinnati’s Religious Landscape, 1788–1873 (Temple University Press,...
The Author’s Corner with Amanda Hendrix-Komoto
Amanda Hendrix-Komoto is Assistant Professor of History at Montana State University. This interview is based on her new book, Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific (University of Nebraska Press, 2022). JF: What led...
The Author’s Corner with Jeroen Dewulf
Jeroen Dewulf is Queen Beatrix Professor in the Department of German & Dutch Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. This interview is based on his new book, Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022)....
The Author’s Corner with Janet Moore Lindman
Janet Moore Lindman is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Rowan University. This interview is based on her new book, A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America (Penn State University Press, 2022). JF:...
The Author’s Corner with Dana Logan
Dana Logan is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at UNC Greensboro. This interview is based on her new book, Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America (University of Chicago Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Awkward Rituals?...
The Author’s Corner with Kocku von Stuckrad
Kocku von Stuckrad is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen. This interview is based on his new book, A Cultural History of the Soul: Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present (Columbia University Press, 2022)....
The Author’s Corner with Stefano Villani
Stefano Villani is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Maryland. This interview is based on his new book, Making Italy Anglican: Why the Book of Common Prayer Was Translated into Italian (Oxford University Press, 2022). JF:...