current vita - Department of History - University of Arkansas

C U R R I C U L U M V I T A EBETH BARTON SCHWEIGERUniversity of Arkansas, Department of History Tel. 479-575-7223416 Old Main, Fayetteville, AR 72701 bschweig@uark.eduEMPLOYMENT2006--present Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Arkansas2000-06 Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas1998 University of Virginia, Lecturer, Department of History1997 Virginia Commonwealth University, Adjunct Asst Professor, Department of History1987-1989 University of Virginia, Teaching Assistant & Instructor, Department of HistoryEDUCATIONPhD University of Virginia, 1994MA University of Virginia, 1987BA Stephen F. Austin State University, 1983FELLOWSHIPS & HONORSNational Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2012-13University of Arkansas Teaching Academy Fellow, 2012-J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences Master Teacher, 2011University of Virginia, Rare Book School, 2010National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, American Antiquarian Society, Fall 2009Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. Communitas Fellow, Summer 2006Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow, 2005University of Cambridge, Wolfson College. Visiting Fellow, 2004-05Virginia Historical Society, Richmond. Mellon Fellowship, 2004Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY. Filson Fellowship, 2004American Antiquarian Society. Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow, 2004Library Company of Philadelphia, Reese Fellow, History of the Book in the Americas, 2002University of Arkansas, Research Incentive Grants, 2002, 2003Yale University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Residential Research Fellow, 2001-02Carnegie Academy of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, National Fellow, 2001-02. Declined.University of Notre Dame, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, 2000National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1999-2000Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis, Young Scholars in American Religion, 1997-98Yale University, Faculty Fellowship, Pew Program in Religion and American History, 1996University of Chicago, Divinity School, Predoctoral Fellowship, 1989Wheaton College, Predoctoral Fellowship, 1989

B. Schweiger—2PUBLICATIONSBOOKSThe Literate South: Reading Before Emancipation. Contracted with Yale University Press.Religion in the American South: Protestants and Others in History and Culture. Edited with Donald G.Mathews. University of North Carolina Press, 2004.The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia. Oxford University Press,2000.ESSAYSThe Church in North America, in Global Christianity in the Nineteenth Century, Schjørring and Hjelm,eds., Kohlhammer Verlag/Palgrave [Religionen der Menschheit, Bde. 32, 33, 34], in progress.The Literate South: Reading Before Emancipation. Journal of the Civil War Era 3 (September 2013):331-359.Race, Slavery, and Shattered Churches in Early America, in The Morally Divided Body: EthicalDisagreement and the Disunity of the Church, Root and Buckley, eds., (Cascade Books, 2012),12-24.The Very Civil Convictions of Ed Harrell, in Recovering the Margins of American Religious History: TheLegacy of David Edwin Harrell, Jr., Waldrep and Billingsley, eds., (University of Alabama Press,2012), 100-105.A Social History of English Grammar in the Early United States, Journal of the Early Republic 30(Winter 2010): 533-55.Seeing Things: Knowledge and Love in History, in Confessing History, Fea, Green and Miller, eds.,(University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), 60-80.Alexander Campbell’s Passion for Print: Protestant Sectarians and Publishing in the Early Republic,Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 118, Pt. I (2008): 143-76.Roundtable on Mark A. Noll’s Civil War as a Theological Crisis, Fides et Historia 39 (Summer/Fall 2007):29-34.Max Weber in Mount Airy Or, Revivals and Social Theory in the Early South, in Religion in theAmerican South, Schweiger and Mathews, eds., University of North Carolina Press, 2004.How Would Jesus Vote? The Prehistory of the Christian Right, Reviews in American History 32 (March2004): 49-57.Forum on Southern Religion, invited essay with Donald G. Mathews, Samuel S. Hill, and John B.Boles, Religion & American Culture (Summer 1998): 161-166.The Restructuring of Southern Religion, in Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery, Snay andMcKivigan, eds., University of Georgia Press, 1998.James Edward Armstrong and John Davenport Blackwell, Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Vol. I,Tartar, Treadway and Kneebone, eds., Library of Virginia, 1998.Putting Politics Aside: Virginia Democrats and Voter Apathy in the Era of Disfranchisement, in TheEdge of the South, Ayers and Willis, eds., University Press of Virginia, 1991.REVIEWSHilary Moss, Schooling Citizens: The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America(University of Chicago Press, 2009), American Studies 52: 1 (Fall 2012): 168-171.

B. Schweiger—3George C. Rable, God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War (Universityof North Carolina Press, 2010), Arkansas Historical Quarterly (Winter 2011): 489-492.W. Jason Wallace, Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835-1860(University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), Journal of American History 98 (December 2011):827.Jewel L. Spangler, Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists inthe Late Eighteenth Century (University of Virginia Press, 2008), Journal of Baptist Studies 3(2009): 53-4.Frank Byrne, Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865, (Kentucky, 2006), ArkansasHistorical Quarterly 68 (Autumn 2009): 340-343.Erskine Clark, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic, (Yale University Press, 2005), The Journal of SouthernReligion, Vol. XI (2009) http://jsr.fsu.edu.Catherine Kerrison, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South, (CornellUniversity Press, 2006), The Book [American Antiquarian Society] 73 (November, 2007): 6-7.Charles A. Israel, Before Scopes: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870-1925,(University of Georgia Press, 2004), The Journal of Southern Religion, Vol. IX (2007) http://jsr.fsu.edu.Laura M. Stevens, The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility,(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), Literature & History 15 (Spring 2006): 84-5.Jonathan Daniel Wells, The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861, (University of NorthCarolina Press, 2004), Arkansas Historical Quarterly 64 (Winter 2005): 442-445.Candy Gunther Brown, The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America,1789-1880, (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), Journal of Southern History 71 (May2005): 432-33.James E. Block, A Nation of Agents: The American Path to a Modern Self and Society, (Harvard UniversityPress, 2002), Arkansas Historical Quarterly 63 (Summer 2004): 215-18.Philip N. Mulder, A Controversial Spirit: Evangelical Awakenings in the South, (Oxford University Press,2002), North Carolina Historical Review 80 (No. 2, 2003): 240-41.James R. Goff, Jr., Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel, (University of North Carolina Press,2002), Maryland Historical Magazine 97 (No. 3, 2002): 380-82.Michael Dennis, Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920,(University of Illinois Press, 2001), Arkansas Historical Quarterly 61 (Spring, 2002): 114-17.Steven E. Woodworth, While God is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers, (UniversityPress of Kansas, 2001), North Carolina Historical Review 79 (No. 1, 2002): 118-19.Sally G. McMillen, To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865-1915,(Louisiana State University Press, 2001), Journal of American History 89 (No. 3, 2002): 1055-56.Randall M. Miller and Jon L. Wakelyn, eds., Catholics in the Old South: Essays on Church and Culture,(Mercer University Press, 1999), Church History 70 (No. 2, 2001): 391-92.Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810, (Oxford University Press, 1998),Journal of American History 86 (March, 2000): 1769-1770.Ellen M. Eslinger, Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism, (University ofTennessee Press, 1999), Center on Religion in the South Newsletter (Lutheran TheologicalSeminary, Columbia, S.C.), Spring 2000, 3-4.Christopher H. Owen, The Sacred Flame of Love: Methodism and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia,(University of Georgia Press, 1998), Journal of Southern History 65 (November, 1999): 856-7.Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845, (University of NorthCarolina Press, 1998), Religious Studies Review

B. Schweiger—4Charles Reagan Wilson, Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis, (University ofGeorgia Press, 1995), Church History 68 (No. 1, 1999): 221-3.Daniel W. Stowell, Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877, (OxfordUniversity Press, 1998), H-Net Reviews (February 1999), http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=2820.Walter H. Conser, Jr. and Sumner B. Twiss, eds., Religious Diversity and American Religious History:Studies in Traditions and Cultures (University of Georgia, 1997), Journal of the Early Republic 18(Fall, 1998): 325-27.David L. Kimbrough, Reverend Joseph Tarkington, Methodist Circuit Rider: From Frontier Evangelism toRefined Religion (University of Tennessee Press, 1997), Journal of American History 85(September, 1998): 674-5.Gregory A. Wills, Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South,1785-1900, (Oxford University Press, 1997), Journal of American History 84 (December, 1997):1052-53.Deborah Vansau McCauley, Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History, (University of Illinois Press,1995), Journal of Southern History 62 (August, 1996): 628-9.J. Lawrence Brasher, The Sanctified South: John Lakin Brasher and the Holiness Movement, (University ofIllinois Press, 1994), Journal of Southern History 62 (February, 1996): 168-9.PAPERS & INVITED PRESENTATIONSUniversity of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. The Literate South: Why Southern Readers Matter,March 2013.St. George Tucker Society, Augusta, GA. The Literate South: Reading and Freedom BeforeEmancipation, July 2012.Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. ‘Language isthe Gift of God’: The Bible, Poetry, and Moral Power in the Early U.S., July 2012.Christian Scholars Conference, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN. The Libertarianization ofAmerican Christianity: Amanda Porterfield’s Conceived in Doubt, June 2012.Baylor University, Waco, TX. Symposium, Nineteenth-Century Evangelicalism and Revivalism.‘Language is the Gift of God’: Reading the Bible in the Early United States, October 2011.Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Houston, TX. A Social History of EnglishGrammar in the Early U.S., March 2011.Loyola University, Baltimore, MD. Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology. Race, Slavery, andShattered Churches in Early America, June, 2010.Northeastern Regional Academic Seminar, (American Antiquarian Society, Brown University,University of Connecticut, Clark University), Worcester, MA. A Social History of Grammarin the Early United States, November 2008Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. The Social World of Language in the Nineteenth Century, July2006University of Edinburgh. The Moral Economy of Reading in the Early United States. Centre for theHistory of the Book, Conference on Material Cultures and the Creation of Knowledge, July2005University of Cambridge. Cloth, Books, and Time: Reading in the Early Nineteenth Century.American History Seminar, May 2005Oxford University. The Myth of the Illiterate South. American History Research Seminar, February2005

B. Schweiger—5University of Leicester. Reading Slavery: Literacy and Freedom in the Early United States. ModernHistory Seminar. December 2004University of Sussex. The Myth of the Illiterate South. American Studies Seminar, Brighton,November 2004British Association of Nineteenth-Century Historians Annual Meeting, Artisan Women and TheirBooks in the Upland South, Gregynog, Powys, Wales. October 2004American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA., Reading Slavery: Literacy and Freedom in the EarlyUnited States, May 2004Bethany College, WV. Alexander Campbell’s Passion for Print. Invited paper for AlexanderCampbell Symposium, October 2003Arkansas Association for College History Teachers. Common Readers and Their Books in the OldSouth. Hot Springs, AR, October 2003Southern Historical Association. Religion in the Old South At Twenty-Five. Baltimore, MD, November2002University of Cambridge. Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books. American HistorySeminar, May 2002Organization of American Historians. The Common Reader in the Old South. Washington, DC,April 2002Staten Island Historical Society. Reading Women in Antebellum America. New York, NY, March2002American Society of Church History. Reading, Religion, and Patriarchy in the Old South. SanFrancisco, CA, January 2002American Society of Church History. Religion and the Common Reader in the Old South. YaleUniversity, March 2001New York University. The Ideology of Literacy in the Old South. National Academy of Education,October 2000Southern Association of Women Historians. “Of Course I Read of Sundays”: Reading AmongCommon Women in the Old South. Richmond, VA, June 2000American Society of Church History. Like a Congress of Kings: Sectarian Conflict and Society inthe Jacksonian South. Chicago, IL, January 2000Southern Historical Association. Frank L. Owsley’s Plain Folk of the Old South After Fifty Years. FortWorth, TX, November 1999Union Theological Seminary. Neither Bottom Rail Nor Top: Religion and Social Mobility in theAntebellum South. Southeastern Colloquia for American Religious Studies, Richmond, VA,November 1998University of Notre Dame. Denying Disenchantment: Religion and Modernity in the AmericanSouth. History Seminar of the Young Scholars in American Religion, South Bend, IN, July1998Southern Intellectual History Circle. The Captivity of Southern Religious History. Birmingham, AL,February 1997Southern Historical Association. The Gospel Working Up: Religion, Social Mobility, and the Cultureof Aspiration in the Old South. Little Rock, AR, November 1996Historical Society of North Carolina. The Captivity of Southern Religious History. Beaufort, NC,April 1996American Historical Association. Clerical Authority and Popular Religion in Virginia, 1830-1910.Chicago, IL, December 1991

Wheaton College. Religion, Education, and Public Life in Virginia, 1850-1910. Institute for theStudy of American Evangelicals Seminar, June 1991Southern Historical Association. Religious Life in the New South. New Orleans, LA, November1990Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals Seminar. Religious Life and Voluntarism in theAmerican South. Stowe, VT. June 1990University of Chicago. Congregational Life in the American South. Congregational History ProjectSeminar, Divinity School, May 1990GRADUATE SUPERVISIONB. Schweiger—6Justin R. Gage, “Through the Mail and the Rail: The Spread of the 1890 Ghost Dance,” Ph.Dexpected 2014.Ronald J. Gordon, “The Claims of Religion Upon Medical Men: Medicine and ProtestantChristianity in Nineteenth-Century America,” Ph.D expected 2014.Sonia Toudji, “Intimate Frontiers: French, Indians, and Africans in the Mississippi Valley,” (Ph.D2012). Assistant Professor, University of Central Arkansas.Tammy Johnson Byron, “ ‘A Catechism for Their Special Use’: Slave Catechisms in the AntebellumSouth,” (Ph.D 2008). Assistant Professor, Dalton State College, GA.Matthew A. Byron, “Crime and Punishment? The Impotency of Dueling Laws in the UnitedStates,” (Ph.D 2008). Assistant Professor, Young Harris College, GA.Susan E. Dollar, “Black, White, or Indifferent: Race, Identity and Americanization in CreoleLouisiana,” (Ph.D 2004). Associate Professor, Northwestern Louisiana State University.I am directing four other PhD students (pre-comprehensive) on topics including nineteenth-centuryvisual culture, ritual in secret societies, and twentieth-century protest song.COURSES TAUGHTAmerica in the WorldHistory of the American People to 1877, since 1877Religion in Early AmericaAntebellum AmericaEarly American RepublicHistory of the Book in Early AmericaGraduate Research Seminar, Early American HistoryGraduate Reading Seminar, Early American Social and Cultural HistorySERVICERefereeNEH-American Antiquarian Society Fellowships, Oxford University Press, University of NorthCarolina Press, University of Georgia Press, University of Alabama Press, University of IllinoisPress, Baylor University Press, Journal of American History, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal ofSouthern History, William & Mary Quarterly, Civil War History, Ohio Valley History

B. Schweiger—7Editorial BoardsUniversity of Alabama Press, Religion & American Culture Series, 2011-Fides et Historia, 2011-Journal of Southern Religion, http://jsr.fsu.edu, 1997- [Founding Associate Editor, 1997-2000]Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 2001-08Ozark Historical Review, 2000-01; Editor, 2005-06Board of Directors. Conference on Faith and History, 2010-2014College and DepartmentCollege Cabinet, 2011-12Personnel Committee, College, 2010-2012Vice Chair, 2011-12Chair, Early American Search Committee, History, 2009-10Academic Advisor, History majors, 2009-12Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, History, 2009-12Chair, 2011-12Dean’s Search Committee, College, January-June 2009Graduate Studies Committee, History, 2006-Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, History, 2002-4; 2005-7Religious Studies Steering Committee, College, 2000-03; 2009-Conference DirectorSouthern Intellectual History Circle, February 2014, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art andUniversity of Arkansas. Keynote speaker: Rachael DeLue, Department of Art, PrincetonUniversity.Conference Co-Director“Religion in the American South: Toward a Renewed Scholarship,” October 1999, Emory University,for the Journal of Southern Religion. Keynote speakers: President Jimmy Carter and AmbassadorAndrew Young.MembershipsSouthern Historical AssociationChair, Holmes Award Committee, 2012Program Committee, 2008-9Membership Committee, 2002-03; 2005-6; 2013-14Southern Intellectual History CircleChair, Program Committee, 2008-Program Committee, 2006-Society for the History of the Early American RepublicAmerican Society of Church HistoryOrganization of American Historians August 2013