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Raymond J. Haberski, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of History Director Page | 1 Raymond J. Haberski, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of History Director of American Studies Indiana University-Indianapolis (IUPUI) Institute for American Thought Faculty Associate, Center for Religion and American Culture ES017K, (317) 278-1019 [email protected] Education 1999 Ph.D., Ohio University, Department of History and Contemporary History Institute 1992 M.A., Department of History, 1992, State University of New York at Albany 1990 B.A., History/Political Science, 1990, State University of New York at Albany Academic Experience 8/14 Professor of History, Indiana University-Indianapolis 7/14 Director of American Studies, Indiana University-Indianapolis 6/14 Fellow, Cluster of Excellence, University of Muenster, Germany 5/13- Professor of History, Marian University 8/13-6/14 Visiting Professor of American Studies, IUPUI 6/11-Present Co-Founder of Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) Elected secretary 2011, 2012, 2013 8/09-8/14 Chair, Department of History and Social Science, Marian University 8/08-6/09 Fulbright Danish Distinguished Chair in American Studies, Center for the Study of the Americas, Copenhagen Business School 5/07-Present Associate Professor, Department of History and Social Science, Marian College, Indianapolis, IN 8/03-6/08 Director, Honors Program, Marian College, Indianapolis, IN 8/00-5/07 Assistant Professor, Department of History and Social Science, Marian College, Indianapolis, IN 10/92-4/93 Visiting Instructor, U.S. History and American Studies, Tolstoy Pedagogical Institute, Tula, Russia Page | 2 Refereed Publications Books Evangelization to the Heart: A Brief History of American Franciscan Media and Messages in Franciscan History in the United States Series (Commissioned by the American Academy of Franciscan History, Berkeley Theological Union, anticipated publication, 2015) God and War: American Civil Religion Since 1945 (Rutgers University Press, 2012) Burstyn v. Wilson: The Miracle Case, Co-author, Laura Wittern-Keller, Landmark Law Cases and American Society, (University of Press of Kansas, 2008). Freedom To Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007). It’s Only A Movie: Films and Critics in American Culture (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001) Essays Regular blogger at the Society for U.S. Intellectual History (winner of the 2010 Cliopatria Award for best group blog and semi-finalist for 3quarksdaily 2014): http://us-intellectual- history.blogspot.com/ Blogger at Huffington Post-Religion: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raymond-haberski-jr/ Blogger at Christian Century: http://www.christiancentury.org/contributor/raymond-haberski-jr “Steven Spielberg and the Critics,” commissioned by Nigel Morris, ed., A Companion to Steven Spielberg (Wiley-Blackwell, anticipated publication, 2015) “Civil Religion,” commissioned by Michael Shally-Jensen, ed., American Political Culture: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO), anticipated publication 2015. “President Gerald Ford and the Media,” commissioned by V. Scott Kaufman, ed., A Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter (Malden, MA: Wiley Publishers, anticipated publication, 2014) “Critics and the Sex Scene,” in, Eric Schaefer, ed., Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014) “A Theology of Limits,” review of Charles Lemert, Why Niebuhr Matters (Yale University Press, 2011) and John Patrick Diggins, Why Niebuhr Now? (The University of Chicago Press, 2011) for Reviews in American History (December 2012). “The Neuhaus Project: The Promise and Perils of American Exceptionalism,” in Saskia Hertlein and Hermann Joseph Schnackertz, eds., The Culture of Catholicism in the United States (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2012), 95-114. Page | 3 “The Obama Offer,” The Election of Barack Obama: A New Era? commissioned by Center for the Study of the Americas Pamphlet Series, Copenhagen Business School (2009). “American Exceptionalism Today,” commissioned by Illumine, (March/April, 2009). “The Two-Headed Advocate: Why America Feared A Genteel Movie Critic from the South,” commissioned by Oxford American, 56 (Spring 2007), pp. 119, 121-122. “Censorship in Chicago,” Encyclopedia of Chicago History (Chicago: University Press of Chicago, 2004) “A Perilous Fight”: The Making of the World War II Documentary, The Perilous Fight,” Film and History (Fall 2003) “Reel Life, Real Censorship: The 1918-1919 Chicago Motion Picture Commission Hearings,” Chicago History (Fall 2000). Refereed Presentations 1/15 American Society for Church History, AHA, New York, NY Panel: Religion and US Foreign Policy—A State of the Field Paper: The Crucible of Catholic Though on War and Peace 10/14 Sixth Annual Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference Roundtable: Media History as Intellectual History 1/14 American Society for Church History Panel: American Catholic Responses to the Politics of Life and Human Rights Paper: Just War, just…war, or Culture War: How Catholics Made Peace with War 10/13 Fifth Annual Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference Roundtable: The Culture Wars University of California-Irvine 2/13 Religion in American Life, King’s College-London Panel: Uncivil Religion: Violence, War, and American Civil Religion Paper: War, Robert Bellah and the Making of American Civil Religion 1/2013 American Historical Association/American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA Paper: Message Seeks Media: Themes in American Franciscan Media History 11/12 Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Conference, CUNY Graduate Center (Cancelled) Panel: Religion, Presidential Elections, and Public Philosophies Paper: “The Illusory Community: Richard John Neuhaus, ‘The Naked Public Square, and the Rise of a New Metaphor in the Culture Wars” Religion” Page | 4 10/2011 2011 Society for U.S. Intellectual History, CUNY Graduate Center New York, NY Panel: God and War in Twentieth Century America Paper: “The Best Game in Town:” How Richard John Neuhaus Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love War 10/2010 2010 US Intellectual History Conference, CUNY Graduate Center New York, NY Organized and presented “Civil Religion and Intellectual History” Roundtable 4/10 2010 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL “Civil Religion in Obama’s America” 1/10 2010 American Politics Group, Oxford University, UK “Eisenhower and the Politics of a National Faith” 11/09 2009 United States Intellectual History Conference, New York, NY “Ought Catholics Be Liberal?” 5/09 2009 Nordic Association of American Studies, Copenhagen “J. William Fulbright and Cosmopolitan Conservatism” 4/09 2009 European Consortium for Political Research, Lisbon Workshop 1: Moral values, cultural change, and post-materialism in Europe and north America “U.S. civil religion and its consequences in U.S. foreign policy” 3/09 2009 The Culture of Catholicism in the United States, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany “America’s Theologian: Richard John Neuhaus and a Catholic Theology of American Exceptionalism” 3/08 2008 Annual Organization of American Historians Meeting, New York, NY Panel: The '60s as History, The Sixties as Memory: Positioning the "Sixties" in American Cinema. “Sontag, Kael, and the Debate Over Cinema as Revolution” 3/25/04: 2004 Organization of American Historians, Boston, Massachusetts Panel: “Reel Revolution: Movies and Cultural Tumult” “The Heroic Age of Moviegoing: New York City’s Reel Revolution” 6/1/02: 2002 Joint Meetings of the Canadian Law and Society Association and the Law and Society Association, Vancouver, BC “Menace or Art? The Chicago Motion Picture Commission Hearings, 1918- 1919” 4/13/01: 31st PCA/23rd ACA Conference, Philadelphia, PA “The Law, Motion Pictures, and the Public: Who Has Responsibility?” 3/9/01: Michigan Academy of Arts and Letters, Dearborn, MI Page | 5 “Movies into Art” 3/29/97: 27th Popular Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, TX “The Woodstock Festivals and Historical Generations: Popular Countercultures of Different Eras” Invited Lectures 2009- Present Listed in Indiana Historical Society Speakers Bureau 02/20/15: Graduate Student Association Conference Department of History, Ohio University “Religion and the Cold War in America” 6/21/14 Keynote, Cluster of Excellence: Civil Religion in the United States “Bellah’s Lament” University of Münster, Germany 8/15/13 Keynote Speaker, Digital Humanities Workshop IUPUI 4/24/13 Hundere Lecture on Religion “Bellah’s Lament” and “Lincoln’s Bequest” Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 3/21/13 Graduate Seminar God and War John Bodnar course at Indiana University, “American Identities” 3/13 “’Listen to Me Father, for I Have Sinned’: Confessional Culture in Franciscan Media” Academy of American Franciscan History/Berkeley School of Theology UC-Berkeley 11/12 “American Wars For and Against the World” Richard G. Lugar Franciscan Center for Global Studies, Marian University, Indianapolis 4/10 “Special Envoys in American Foreign Policy” Great Decisions 2010, Mid-North Shepherd’s Center, Indianapolis, IN 3/10 “War and the American Soul: Civil Religion and the United States since 1945” Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN 12/09 “A Theology of American Exceptionalism? Iraq, civil religion, and American public morality” Indiana Council on Foreign Relations, Indianapolis, IN Page | 6 11/09 “Why are these people smiling? Why Danes are considered the happiest people in the world” Indiana Council on World Affairs, Indianapolis, IN 10/09 “A Little Black
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