John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 Mission the Center Serves As an Ideologically Neutral John C

John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 Mission The Center serves as an ideologically neutral John C. Danforth Center venue for fostering rigorous scholarship and informing on Religion and Politics broad academic and public communities about the Annual Report 2012-2013 intersections of religion and U.S. politics.

Contents

Founding 2

Letter from the Chancellor 4 Letter from the Center Director 5

Leading 6

People 8 Faculty Director Faculty Center Founders Postdoctoral Fellow Staff National Advisory Board 16 Washington University Executive Committee 18

Engaging 20

Public Events 22 Academics 24 Courses Religion and Politics Minor Colloquium Students 28 Online Journal 30 Supporters 32

Looking Ahead 34

New Appointments 36 Faculty Associate Director Graduate Students Coming Events 40

B John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Founding

The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics owes its existence to the tremendous generosity of the Danforth Foundation, founded in 1927 by Mr. and Mrs. William H. Danforth. The Foundation’s commitment to funding St. Louis-based initiatives is well known, and in 2009 it announced a major gift to Washington University to establish the Center. John C. Danforth, former Senator from Missouri and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was particularly engaged in the Center’s founding and remains a member of its National Advisory Board. This gift reflects Senator Danforth’s specific interest in religion and politics, as set out in his 2006 book, Faith and Politics: How the “Moral Values” Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together (Viking). Letter from the Chancellor Letter from the Center Director

profound issues on which American citizens The John C. Danforth Center has now completed sometimes disagree. its third full year of operations, and what a marvelous year it has been! Over the past year, the Center has certainly accomplished its mission. It has engaged the Two new faculty members, Mark Jordan and public by hosting more than 1,300 community Darren Dochuk, joined us in the summer of 2012, members at a varied program of lectures by along with our first postdoctoral research fellow, visiting professors and nationally recognized Anne Blankenship. In the course of the year, personalities. The online journal Religion and we hired another stellar faculty member, Laurie Politics celebrated its first year by garnering Maffly-Kipp, and another postdoctoral fellow, notable awards and more than one million page Lerone Martin, along with the Center’s new views. It has continued to recruit new faculty and Associate Director, Rachel M. Lindsey. staff members, increased the number of course Religion and Politics—two subjects that can elicit offerings from 3 to 7, and now offers a minor in All the while we were building a brand new un- founding gift from the Danforth Foundation and emotion and initiate debate across all levels of Religion and Politics for undergraduates. This past dergraduate curriculum in religion and politics; the extraordinary graciousness of Senator John C. our society, and two subjects that are historically year the Center also launched the Colloquium establishing a dissertation fellowship program Danforth, other gifts have increased our endow- bound together in American democracy. In the on American Religion, Politics, and Culture. This for visiting Ph.D. students; our online journal ment and enabled us to do still more to increase three years of its existence, the John C. Danforth research-oriented, community-building workshop reached more readers than ever before; and our the resources and possibilities of this innovative Center on Religion and Politics continues to featured 16 scholars from 12 different universities diverse public programming drew thousands Center. To those who have given generously and fulfill its mission of providing an ideologically and multiple disciplines who came together to to the Washington University campus and our sacrificially to the Center, know that we will use neutral place where dialogue on these subjects explore topical issues at the core of the Center: online streaming services. these gifts wisely and well. can be freely expressed, with respect for different church/state relations, religion and secularism, the points of view and belief systems, and with the role of religion in national elections, and the rise This year, the Center hosted seven public lectures, This year, we have been especially humbled by the focus always on providing excellent scholarship of the Religious Right, to name just a few. including two accomplished figures from across generosity of Dr. William Neaves, who established and encouraging relevant, thought-provoking the political spectrum. George F. Will’s December a professorship in the Center to honor his beloved discussion for the community. It is clear that the Center is contributing greatly 2012 keynote address earned us much praise and and highly accomplished wife. In early 2013, Mark to the quality and impact of our University, and also some criticism. In February, we co-sponsored D. Jordan assumed the Reverend Priscilla Wood The Center seeks to deepen the academic and it is equally apparent that its endeavors are of a public lecture by Sandra Fluke, whose admirers Neaves Distinguished Professorship (page 33). public understanding of religion and politics use, interest, and value beyond the Washington and critics were no less vocal. Research universi- in America. Its ongoing commitment is to University community. We are grateful to Senator ties, like our Center itself, have always stood for I invite you to visit us online or in person, to see consider multiple and sometimes conflicting Danforth, a true visionary, whose strong belief the airing of truly diverse viewpoints; and in what we’re doing, and to share your ideas about perspectives and to contribute rigorous, unbiased that we can move forward together despite having these polarized times, engaging rigorously with how we may do it better. We will never stop trying standards and scholarship to these discussions. divergent opinions on matters of politics and perspectives that challenge one’s own has never to improve. Thank you again for your critical At the launch of the Center, former Senator religion is an aspiration that continues to guide us. seemed more urgent. feedback and support. and Ambassador to the United Nations John C. Danforth stated, “The more light that is shed Mark S. Wrighton None of these achievements would be possible R. Marie Griffith on a subject, the healthier we are.” The Center’s Chancellor without the concrete support of our growing Director goal is to shed light by encouraging and sustain- number of benefactors and donors, all of whom ing civil discourse and respectfully addressing we have listed at the end of this report. Since the

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Our Commitments:

To support and enhance outstanding scholarly research on the historical and contemporary intertwining of religion and politics.

To disseminate excellent scholarship to students and the broad public by means of courses, lectures, and conferences.

To foster debate and discussion among people who hold widely different views about religion and/ or politics.

6 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 7 Faculty Director Faculty

R. Marie Griffith Leigh Eric Schmidt

R. Marie Griffith, the John C. Danforth Professor in the Divinity School, serving as well Leigh Eric Schmidt is the Edward C. Mallinckrodt the American Society of Church History. In Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at on the faculty committee for the History of University Professor in the Humanities at addition, Schmidt has served as co-editor with Washington University in St. Louis, is currently American Civilization program in the Faculty of Washington University in St. Louis. He joined the Sally Promey of American Religious Liberalism the director of the John C. Danforth Center Arts and Sciences. John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics (Indiana University Press, 2012), co-editor with on Religion and Politics. in 2011. Laurie Maffly-Kipp and Mark Valeri of Practicing Her first major publication was God’s Daughters: Protestants: Histories of the Christian Life in Professor Griffith earned her undergraduate Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission From 2009 to 2011, he was the Charles Warren America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), degree at the University of Virginia in Political (University of California Press, 1997), which Professor of the History of Religion in America and co-author with Edwin Scott Gaustad of The and Social Thought in 1989. She completed both examines the practices and perceptions of at Harvard University, and, from 1995 to 2009, Religious History of America (HarperOne, 2002). her M.A. and Ph.D. in the study of religion at contemporary evangelical women. Her next book, he taught at Princeton University where he Schmidt’s latest single- authored book is Heaven’s Harvard University. Upon earning her doctorate Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American was the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, in 1995, she was awarded consecutive fellowships Christianity (University of California Press, 2004), Professor of Religion and served as chair of the American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and at both Princeton University and Northwestern explores the history of Christian-influenced Department of Religion. He has held research Madwoman (Basic Books, 2010). University. In 1999, she joined the faculty attitudes and practices related to embodiment in fellowships at Stanford and Princeton and at Princeton where she filled several roles. modern America, culminating in the evangelical also through the National Endowment for the His next book project explores how atheism and From 1999–2003, she was associate director of diet and fitness movement. These books, along Humanities, the American Council of Learned nonbelief have fared historically in American Princeton’s Center for the Study of Religion. In with her three edited volumes—Women and Societies, the American Philosophical Society, public life. 2003, she became associate professor of religion Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Schmidt and was promoted to professor in 2005. She Power, and Performance (co-edited with Barbara earned his undergraduate degree in history and was later named the director for the Program Dianne Savage. Johns Hopkins University Press, religious studies from the University of California, in the Study of Women and Gender. While at 2006), Religion and Politics in the Contemporary Riverside, in 1983 and his Ph.D. in religion from Princeton, Griffith was awarded the President’s United States (co-edited with Melani McAlister. Princeton in 1987. Award for Distinguished Teaching, along with the Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), and Cotsen Fellowship for Distinguished Teaching American Religions: A Documentary History Schmidt is the author of numerous books, in 2008. She returned to her alma mater, Harvard (Oxford University Press, 2007)—exhibit Griffith’s including Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, University, in 2009 as the John A. Bartlett varied and thoughtful scholarship. and the American Enlightenment (Harvard University Press, 2000), which won the American Her upcoming book will be an analysis of sexu- Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in ality debates in twentieth-century American Historical Studies and the John Hope Franklin Christianity titled Christians, Sex and Politics: Prize of the American Studies Association. He is An American History. In addition to her books, also the author of Restless Souls: The Making Professor Griffith has published over thirty-one of American Spirituality (HarperOne, 2005), articles and book chapters and has written more which appeared in an updated edition from the than twenty reviews. University of California Press in 2012; Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays (Princeton University Press, 1995); and Holy Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period (Princeton, 1989), which received the Brewer Prize from 8 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 9 Faculty (cont’d)

Mark D. Jordan Darren T. Dochuk

Mark Jordan is the Reverend Priscilla Wood Jordan’s many books include The Invention of Darren Dochuk earned his B.A. from Simon Journal of American History. He has received Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Sodomy in Christian Theology (University of Fraser University and M.A. from Queen’s extensive research support from a number of Politics in the Center. A philosopher, ethicist, and Chicago Press, 1997), which won the 1999 John University in Canada before completing his Ph.D. agencies, most recently the American Council of theologian, he formerly served as Richard Rein- Boswell Prize in Lesbian and Gay History; The in 2005 at the University of Notre Dame. Between Learned Societies, National Endowment for the hold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity and Professor Ethics of Sex (Basil Blackwell, 2002); Telling 2005 and 2012, he taught courses in twentieth Humanities, American Philosophical Society, of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian century U.S. political and cultural history at Purdue Research Foundation, The Rockefeller Harvard University. He had taught earlier at the Speech (Beacon Press, 2003); Rewritten Theol- Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Foundation, and the Canadian government. University of Notre Dame and Emory University. ogy: Aquinas after His Readers (Basil Blackwell, 2006); and Recruiting Young Love: How Chris- In 2011, Dochuk published From Bible Belt to In 2007-2008, he served as a research post- Jordan earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from tians Talk about Homosexuality (University of Sunbelt: Plain-folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, doctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of St. John’s College (Annapolis and Santa Fe), and Chicago Press, 2011), which received the 2012 and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism Religion at Princeton University, and in the his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas nonfiction book award from the Publishing (W.W. Norton), which tracks the emergence spring of 2013 he was Bill and Rita Clements at Austin. His doctoral training was in pre-modern Triangle. He has just finished a book on religion of evangelical politics from the margins of the Senior Research Fellow at Southern Methodist European thought, and he has since published and bodily resistance in the writings of Michel Depression-era “Bible Belt” South into the University’s Clements Center for Southwest widely on medieval Christian texts. Jordan’s work Foucault, to be published by Stanford University mainstream of California’s “Sunbelt” society. It Studies. Dochuk is currently working on a book has turned more recently to religious ethics in Press in 2014. His next project reinterprets the has garnered a number of awards, including The project tentatively titled Anointed With Oil: God the modern period, particularly in the United structure of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa of Theol- Society of American Historians’ Allan Nevins and Black Gold in Modern America. It employs States. His recent writing and teaching pursue ogy as a guide to forgotten patterns of Christian Prize, American Historical Association’s John H. grassroots sources, church and corporate questions about the interactions of political and moral formation. Dunning book prize for outstanding historical archives, and the personal records of powerful religious rhetoric, the history of sex and gender writing on any subject in U.S. history, and The industrialists to chart evangelical Protestantism’s in America, and the functions of ritual in creating Professor Jordan has received numerous fellow- Organization of American Historians’ Ellis longstanding (and politically significant) new identities. At the Center, he teaches a range of ships and grants from organizations that include W. Hawley prize for best book in post-Civil relationship with the petroleum industry. courses on such topics as the uses of natural law, the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, War U.S. political history. It has been reviewed recent theories of political and religious power, the Carpenter Foundation, the Ford Foundation, in The American Historical Review, Journal of and the intellectual history of sex and gender. and the Henry Luce Foundation. He has held American History, Church History, and numerous visiting appointments at a number of schools, other academic journals, as well as in popular including the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval magazines such as The Nation, The New Republic, Studies and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the Christian Century, and Time. University of Toronto. He has lectured in academic and public settings in North America and Europe. Dochuk has also co-edited a collection of essays called Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), which assembles the latest work by leading scholars of politics in the South and West. He has published essays in several edited collections and journals, including International Labor and Working-Class History; Religion and American Culture; Religion and American Politics; Reviews in American History; and The 10 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 11 Center Founders Postdoctoral Fellow Staff

John C. Danforth Wayne Fields Anne Blankenship Laura Delmez

John C. Danforth, a partner with the law firm of Wayne Fields, the Lynne Cooper Harvey Distin- Anne Blankenship earned her Ph.D. in Religious As Payroll and Accounting Assistant for the Bryan Cave, developed the initial vision for the guished Professor of English, is the Center’s Studies in 2012 from the University of North Center, Laura Delmez draws on her experience Center that is now named for him. He graduated founding director. He joined the English depart- Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she specialized in accounting and a careful eye for detail. She has with honors from Princeton University and ment at Washington University as an instructor in American religious history. She earned a B.A. significant experience with Washington University earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale in 1968, and he has since served as chair of the from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, accounting systems, as well as with human Divinity School and a Bachelor of Laws degree Department of English, dean of University College, WA and an M.A. in Religion with a concentration resources and office administration more generally. from Yale Law School. He practiced law for some and director of that same college’s Master of in History of Christianity at Yale Divinity School. Her previous positions include Departmental years, then began his political career in 1968, Liberal Arts program. He helped establish the Her research focuses on religious responses to Accounting Assistant for the Office of Medical when he was elected Attorney General of Missouri, American Culture Studies program in 1996, and injustice and associations between national and Student Education at Washington University his first race for public office. He was re-elected to functioned as its Director until 2008; and he religious identities. School of Medicine and Office Coordinator for that post in 1972. Missouri voters elected him to chaired the Democracy and Citizenship Initia- Weber Shandwick Worldwide. Laura holds a the U.S. Senate in 1976 and re-elected him in 1982 tive from 2008-2010. Fields is an accomplished Her current book project, tentatively titled Before bachelor of science in mass communications from and 1988. Serving 18 years in the Senate, he initi- author and frequent commentator on the subject the Civil Rights Movement: Christian Responses to Southeast Missouri State University. ated major legislation in the areas of international of political rhetoric. His writings include Union of the Incarceration of Japanese Americans, will be trade, telecommunications, health care, research Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence (The completed this year. It will examine more broadly & development, transportation, and civil rights. In Free Press, 1996); What the River Knows: An An- her dissertation topic, “Steps to a New World 1999, Attorney General Janet Reno appointed him gler in Midstream (University of Chicago Press, Order: Ecumenism and Racial Integration During special counsel to investigate the federal raid on 1990); The Past Leads a Life of Its Own (Poseidon the World War II Incarceration of Japanese Amer- the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. Press, 1992); and several essays. Fields has also icans,” which analyzed the responses of Protestant In 2004, he represented the United States as U.S. served as a radio and television commentator and churches to the Japanese American incarceration, Ambassador to the United Nations, and served magazine columnist. He has received various by also engaging the responses of Quakers and as a Special Envoy to Sudan. He is the author of teaching awards and fellowships. Roman Catholics. Faith and Politics: How the “Moral Values” Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Blankenship has accepted the offer to continue Together (Viking, 2006). her appointment with the Center for the 2013-14 academic year.

12 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 13 Staff (cont’d)

Lenora Fisher Hannah Hofheinz Debra B. Kennard Tiffany Stanley

Lenora Fisher served as the Center’s assistant Hannah L. Hofheinz is a Th.D. candidate in Debra Kennard joined the Center in 2011 and Tiffany Stanley, who joined the Center staff in the director 2010-2013. She has considerable Theology at Harvard University who spent 2012- currently supports the Center as Communications summer of 2011, serves as the managing editor professional familiarity with the fields of politics 13 on staff with the Center to develop a range of Specialist. She brings a wealth of communications, of Religion & Politics, the John C. Danforth and religion. She spent two years working on special projects that reached out to a diverse marketing, and process improvement experience Center’s online journal. She brings a strong the Obama Presidential Campaign, where her array of undergraduate and graduate students to her role with the Center. After earning a B.A. background in journalism and publishing, as responsibilities ranged from field organizer at Washington University, including a lunch in journalism from Indiana University she well as in religion and politics. Prior to joining to religious outreach coordinator to midwest discussion series focusing on issues of science, enjoyed a career with J. Walter Thompson and the Center, she worked as a reporter-researcher at operations director. During graduate school, religion, and politics. Hofheinz is a constructive GE Capital. She completed graduate work in The New Republic magazine where she wrote on she interned with the Pew Forum on Religion theologian whose current research focuses at the business at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. topics such as Obama’s faith-based outreach and and the Public Life and the International Center theological intersections of politics, economics, While away from the formal workforce to focus the melding of the Christian Right and the Tea for Religion and Diplomacy. She also engaged sexuality, and knowledge. Her dissertation on raising her three children, Debra worked as a Party. Her freelance articles on religion and in several cultural studies that explored topics explores the effects of processes of writing on freelance writer and also became very active in politics have appeared in, among others, USA like the role of religion in government and the academic theology through a critical engagement various community efforts including leadership Today, The Christian Century, Houston Chronicle, influences of racism and poverty in society with the Indecent Theology of Marcella Althaus- roles with her local school district, her church, Christianity Today, and Beliefnet. She holds a throughout her education. She holds a bachelor Reid. It asks whether it is in her practices of and volunteering with Ready Readers in St. Louis B.A. in journalism and a B.A. in English from of arts from Greenville College, as well as writing — her techniques and genres, as well Public Schools. the University of Georgia, in addition to a Master master’s degrees from both Wesley Theological as her writing praxis — that Althaus-Reid’s of Divinity from Harvard University. Seminary and American University’s School of indecency most substantively transforms the International Service in Washington, D.C. possibilities of contemporary theology. Hofheinz is an active member of the American Academy of Religion and currently serves on the steering committee of the Liberation Theologies Working Group of the AAR. She holds degrees from Denison University (B.A.) and Union Theological Seminary (M.Div.).

14 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 15 National Advisory Board

The National Advisory Board is a group of distinguished representatives from the fields of American religion, politics, and journalism. This Board Edward S. Macias Charles R. Marsh John T. McGreevy Provost, Washington University in Professor of Religious Studies, I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the helps the Center have the greatest possible impact on current discussions St. Louis University of Virginia College of Arts and Letters; Professor relating to religion’s long role in U.S. politics. of History, University of Notre Dame

Eboo Patel Barbara D. Savage Barbara A. Schaal Jon Meacham (Chair) David L. Boren David Brooks Founder and President, Interfaith Professor of American Social Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Executive Editor, Random House Former United States Senator from Author and opinion writer, Youth Core Thought and Professor of History, Professor in the Department of Oklahoma; President, University of The New York Times University of Pennsylvania Biology in Arts & Sciences Oklahoma Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences

John C. Danforth Gerald Early Jean Bethke Elshtain Alan K. Simpson Mary Stillman Roberto Suro Former United States Senator from Merle Kling Professor of Modern Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor Former United States Senator from Lawyer and Lecturer in Political Professor of Journalism and Public Missouri; Partner, law firm of Bryan Letters; Director, Center for the of Social and Political Ethics, Divinity Wyoming; Co-Chairman, National Science, Washington University in Policy, University of Southern Cave LLP Humanities, Washington University School, The University of Chicago Commission on Fiscal Responsibility St. Louis California in St. Louis and Reform

Michael Gerson Sarah Barringer Gordon Joel C. Hunter Krista Tippett William G. Tragos Gary S. Wihl Journalist and opinion writer, Professor of Constitutional Law and Senior Pastor, Northland, A Church Host and Producer, “On Being” Radio Co-Founder and Former Chairman, Former Dean of Arts & Sciences, The Washington Post Professor of History, University of Distributed Program, American Public Media TBWA Worldwide Washington University in St. Louise Pennsylvania 16 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 17 Adrienne Davis is Vice Provost of Washington University and the William M. Van Cleve Professor in the School of Law. A graduate of Washington University Yale Law School, she has been on the faculty of the University of San Francisco School of Law; American University’s Washington College Executive Committee of Law, where she was co-director of the Gender, Work & Family Project; and the University of North Carolina School of Law. Davis’ scholarship focuses on gender and race relations, theories of justice and The Executive Committee consists of Washington University faculty who reparations, feminist legal theory, and law and popular culture. She has advise the Center on matters of programming and resource allocation. written extensively on the legal dimensions of American slavery and is Adrienne Davis the co-editor of the book, Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Vice Provost and William M. Van Cleve Iver Bernstein, Professor of History and Director of the American Undermines America (1996). Professor of Law Culture Studies Graduate Program, is a historian of the nineteenth- century United States. He earned his B.A. from Brown University John Inazu is Associate Professor in the School of Law and Associate and his Ph.D. from Yale. He is the author of The New York City Draft Professor of Political Science in Arts & Sciences. His scholarship Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of focuses on the First Amendment freedoms of speech, assembly, and the Civil War (1991, 2010). His current book project, to be published religion, and related questions of legal and political theory. His first by Oxford University Press, is Stripes & Scars: Race, The Revitaliza- book, Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly (2012), tion of America, and the Origins of the Civil War. He has held seeks to recover the role of assembly in American political and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and constitutional thought. Professor Inazu’s work is also published or Iver Bernstein the American Council of Learned Societies, among others. forthcoming in Cornell Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, and Law Professor of History and Director of and Contemporary Problems, among others. Prior to joining the law the American Culture Studies Graduate John Inazu Program faculty, Professor Inazu was a visiting assistant professor at Duke Associate Professor of Law and University School of Law and a Royster Fellow at the University of Associate Professor of Political Science Daniel Bornstein is the Stella K. Darrow Professor of Catholic Studies, North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor of History and Religious Studies, and Director of Religious Studies. A specialist in the religious culture of medieval Europe, Andrew Rehfeld is Associate Professor of Political Science and Professor particularly Italy, he has written extensively on lay piety, popular of Law (by courtesy). He was selected in June 2012, to be president and devotional movements, religious confraternities, female sanctity, parish chief executive officer for the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. His research priests, civic religion, and other intersections of the spiritual and focuses on contemporary democratic theory with related interests in material worlds. He is the author and editor of several publications the history of political thought and the philosophy of the social sci- including The Bianchi of 1399: Popular Devotion in Late Medieval Italy ences. His first book, The Concept of Constituency (2005), provides a (1994), and is the editor of Medieval Christianity (the fourth volume conceptual, historical and normative analysis of territorial districting. Daniel Bornstein of the seven-volume People’s History of Christianity, 2010). He has Rehfeld’s current book project is titled A General Theory of Political Stella K. Darrow Professor of Catholic translated numerous texts and has held several fellowships from the Representation. His articles and reviews have also appeared in the An- Studies, Professor of History and Andrew Rehfeld Religious Studies, and Director of American Philosophical Society and the National Endowment for the nals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Studies Associate Professor of Political Science Religious Studies Humanities, among others. President and CEO, Jewish Federation in American Political Development, and elsewhere. of St. Louis Randall Calvert is the Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science and Director of the American Rebecca Wanzo is Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Culture Studies program. His interests revolve around the application Studies. Her first book, The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African of game theory to the understanding of political institutions, such as American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling (2009), legislative parties and constitutions. More generally, his research and examines the stories citizens must tell to make their suffering legible teaching fields include positive political theory, American political to the state and various other communities. Her research interests institutions, and constitutional politics. He is the author of Models of include popular culture, critical race theory, and black feminist theory. Imperfect Information in Politics (1986), and of journal articles in the She is currently working on projects about radical feminist comix in American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political the 1970s, the history of popular media in the United States, African Randall Calvert Science, and elsewhere. His current teaching and research focus on American graphic storytelling, and legal and popular understandings Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor Rebecca Wanzo strategic processes of political communication and political argument of the relationship between civil rights law and time. She has published of Public Affairs and Political Science Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Director of American Culture in American constitutional development. and Sexuality Studies in a number of venues, including differences, The Journal of Popular Studies Culture, and Women and Performance.

18 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 19 Engaging

“Few issues are more critical to the well being of a democracy than how religious beliefs — or the denial of such beliefs — coexist with civic virtue and of how the ‘truths’ of the one are made compatible with the toleration and good will required by the other.”

Senator John C. Danforth Public Events

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013 Redeeming the Soul of America? Why are U.S. Prisons so Religious? Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther The Ascendance of Faith-Based King Jr., and the Promise of the Programs in an Age of Punitive Engaged Scholar Incarceration Charles Marsh, Professor of Religious Studies Tanya Erzen, Catherine Gould Chism Associate and Director of the Project on Lived Theology Professor in the Department of Religion at the at University of Virginia University of Puget Sound

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012 TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013 The ‘ESPN-ing’ of Political Religious Equality: American Reporting Commitment or Global Ideal? Matt Bai, Chief Political Correspondent for Christopher Eisgruber, Princeton University The New York Times Magazine Provost and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012

Religion and Politics in the First FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013 Modern Nation Islam & Muslims as American George F. Will, Syndicated Newspaper Columnist, Journalist, and Author Political Footballs Arsalan Iftikhar, International human rights lawyer and founder of theMuslimGuy.com TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Making Our Voices Heard: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013 Women’s Rights Today Losing America, Trying for the Sandra Fluke, American attorney and women’s rights activist World: The Origins of Global Protestantism Respondent: Adrienne D. Davis, Vice Provost and William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law at Sam Haselby, Assistant Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis the American University of Cairo

22 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 23 Academics/Courses

With the addition of our new American Holidays, Rituals, Religious Varieties: Buddhism & American Religion, Politics, faculty, and still more to be added, and Celebrations Islam in America and Culture: Part II our course listings will continue Professor: Leigh E. Schmidt Professor: Anne Blankenship Professor: Leigh E. Schmidt to grow. Here are highlights of our This seminar examines a variety of holidays, This course will explore how religious innova- This seminar is designed as a reading-rich, course offerings to date, most in festivals, and rituals in American history and tors and immigrants practice their faith and discussion-oriented, community-building work- conjunction with the Department culture. Topics include: conflicts over Christmas, describe their beliefs. While most material will shop for doctoral students, advanced undergradu- of History, the program in Religious the sentiments of greeting cards, African Ameri- focus on either Buddhism or Islam, we’ll discuss ate concentrators, and postdoctoral fellows. It Studies, and the American Culture can emancipation celebrations, Roman Catholic how religious innovation—by old and new will involve critical engagement with leading festivals dedicated to the Virgin Mary, modern Americans—impacts our definition of religion scholarship at the busy intersections of American Studies program. renderings of Jewish ritual (including Hanukkah), more broadly. How does ethnicity and national religion, politics, and culture. For some sessions, the masculinity embodied in fraternal lodge origin affect people’s conception of their reli- it will include a visiting scholar at work in this ceremonies, Neopagan festivals, and Halloween gions? Can cultural traits be distinguished from area—a feature that will allow seminar members Religion and American Society, Hell Houses. Various interpretive approaches are religious practices? How do outsiders under- to meet directly with cutting-edge researchers 1890 to the Present explored, and the intent is to broach a wide range stand those ties? We’ll also consider questions from beyond the university. The seminar’s Professor: Marie Griffith of questions about history and tradition, gender about American identity and how it relates to ambition is to cultivate a community of inquirers and race, public memory and civic ceremony, a person’s religious beliefs and heritage. What engaged in the core questions that animate the This course explores religious life in the United moral order and carnival, through this topical characterizes American religion? Is there any Danforth Center. Possible topics include: church- States. Study focuses on groups and move- focus on ritual and performance. such thing as American Buddhism or American state relations, religion and foreign policy, religion ments that highlight distinctive ways of being Islam? Our explorations will take us throughout and civil rights, religion and the science wars, the both “religious” and “American,” including the St. Louis to discover its religious diversity and rise of the Religious Right, and the role of religion Americanization of global religions in the U.S. American Religion, Politics, and hear how local residents speak about and prac- in national elections. context. Major themes will include religious Culture: Historical Foundations tice their faith. encounter and conflict; secularization, resurgent traditionalism, and new religious establishments; Professor: Leigh E. Schmidt An Intellectual History of Sex experimentalism, eclecticism, and so-called This research-oriented seminar involves in-depth Political and Religious Power and Gender “spiritual” countercultures; the relationship historiographical investigation of leading schol- Professor: Mark D. Jordan Professor: Mark D. Jordan between religious change and broader social and arship at the busy intersections of American political currents (including clashes over race, religion, politics, and culture. Some sessions will The last century scattered many people’s hopes When did sexuality begin? Is it safe to assume that class, gender, and sexuality); and the challenges include a visiting scholar engaged in cutting- for rational progress in politics. Outbreaks gender constructions are universal and time- of religious multiplicity in the U.S. edge research–a feature that will allow seminar of horror pushed a number of European and less? In this course, we will engage with a broad members to work with important scholars from American thinkers to reconsider the relation of range of readings that serve as primary texts in beyond the university. Research projects may religious and “secular” power. This seminar re- the “history of sexuality and gender.” Our aims originate from seminar participants or from other flects on just four of them: Carl Schmitt, Michel are threefold: to analyze the literary evidence we scholars within the university. Possible topics in- Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Judith Butler. have for sexuality and gender identity in Western clude: church-state relations, religion and foreign We will read major texts by each of these think- culture, to survey modern scholarly approaches policy, religion and civil rights, religion and the ers as they ask about divine and human violence, to those same texts, and to consider the ways science wars, the rise of the Religious Right, and the limits of rational government, the trans- in which these modern theoretical frameworks the role of religion in national elections. formations of power, and how societies decide have become the most recent set of “primary” which lives count as human. texts on sexuality and gender.

24 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 25 Academics/Religion and Politics Minor Academics/Colloquium

The religion and politics minor is an interdisciplinary program that The Center initiated a colloquium in the 2012-13 academic year to foster discussion of new brings together resources from the Danforth Center on Religion and scholarship in the broad domain of American Religion, Politics, and Culture. It was designed to serve as a research-oriented, community-building workshop for doctoral students, postdoctoral Politics with relevant offerings from Religious Studies, Political Science, fellows, advanced undergraduates, and allied faculty. Some weeks the focus was work of those Anthropology, History, American Culture Studies, African American within the Washington University community; for other sessions, the gathering hosted a scholar Studies, English, and Women/Gender Studies. Designed to complement from beyond its immediate ranks. the major fields of study above, the minor also aims to augment the undergraduate education of those considering postgraduate professional Fall 2012 Spring 2013 programs in public policy, education, law, medicine, or social work. The religion and politics minor provides the opportunity for exploring in SEPTEMBER 13 JANUARY 24 sustained ways how religion and politics have intersected in American Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Religious Studies, Hannah Hofheinz, Harvard Divinity School/ University of North Carolina at Chape1 Hill Danforth Center culture, both in historical and contemporary terms. As part of the program, students may examine any number of issues such as church-state SEPTEMBER 27 JANUARY 31 Abram van Engen, English, Tisa Wenger, Yale Divinity School relations, religion’s role in shaping gender and sexuality debates, religion Washington University in St. Louis and electoral politics, public conflicts over the nexus of religion and FEBRUARY 7 OCTOBER 4 Steven Miller, University College, science, or religion’s entwining with reform movements (from abolition to Kathryn Lofton, American Studies/ Washington University in St. Louis temperance to civil rights to environmentalism). Religious Studies, Yale University FEBRUARY 21 OCTOBER 18 John Schmalzbauer, Religious Studies/ Anne Blankenship, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology, Missouri State University Danforth Center, Washington University MARCH 28 in St. Louis David Hackett, Religious Studies, OCTOBER 25 University of Florida Ted Smith, Candler Divinity School, APRIL 4 Emory University Richard Callahan, Religious Studies, NOVEMBER 1 University of Missouri Margaret Garb, History, APRIL 18 Washington University in St. Louis Charlotte Walker-Said, Lentz Fellow in NOVEMBER 8 Peace Studies and Human Rights, Corinna Treitel, History, Webster University Washington University in St. Louis APRIL 25 NOVEMBER 29 Sam Haselby, History, Lerone Martin, Eden Theological Seminary American University in Cairo

26 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 27 Students

“Throughout my time here, I have “I’ve found that the Center on witnessed the power of conversa- Religion and Politics offers much tion that the Center fosters through more than just several renowned embracing controversial topics in authors with a lot of experience a neutral way, and how this allows in the humanities. Each faculty for the enrichment of learning. I am member is devoted to passing on fortunate to be a part of this process their wisdom to students. Not as this exposure to civil discourse only have I learned a lot from the certainly helps prepare me for my Center’s professors, but I’ve also future.” gained inspiration to advance my Lainey Schmidt studies in the humanities. I would Class of 2015 recommend all students enroll in a class with one of these professors, “I believe that the Center is so in addition to participating in unique because it allows students some of the Center’s various to frame religion and politics, very events and programs. Although the sensitive and personal subjects, in Center is still new and not yet well an academic context. The Center known to Washington University’s breaks the taboo of separating student body, I believe the Center religion and politics in order to will quickly gain a well-established look at their powerful roles and position as a center for intellectual their overlap in history and today’s development for students.” society. An important component Tyler Yates of higher education is to learn Class of 2016 how to approach subjects from a different angle or an alternative perspective. I believe that the Danforth Center is on the forefront of doing so in the fields of Religion and Politics.” Erica Beach Class of 2014

28 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics List of Featured Articles Masthead Online Journal 2012-13 Editor Marie Griffith A Moral Guide to Obama’s Foreign Policy Director, John C. Danforth Center by John D. Carlson on Religion & Politics Black Churches Send “Souls to the Polls” Managing Editor by Jeff Brumley The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics launched its online Tiffany Stanley Book Culture and the Rise of Liberal Religion journal, Religion & Politics, in May 2012. Its goal is to serve the Center’s Contributing Editor by Matthew S. Hedstrom broader mission of promoting the public understanding of religion’s Max Perry Mueller Can Atheists and Muslims Support Freedom of intersection with politics in the U.S. by attempting to reach a broad 2012-13 Editorial Interns audience both within and beyond the university community. It publishes Conscience Together? Oliver Lazarus, Carly Lippman, by Qasim Rashid and Chris Stedman pieces from a wide range of diverging viewpoints, rather than sticking Katherine Park, Jack West Post-Racial America? The Tangle of Race, Religion, to a single one. The tagline, “fit for polite company,” underscores the Design and Citizenship Point Five, NY: Alissa Levin, civility that we bring to the discussion of these often heated topics. We by Judith Weisenfeld Benjamin Levine, Nathan Eames solicit writers from a range of fields, including journalism, the arts and The End of DOMA and the Dismantling of the Illustration humanities, and the social sciences. “Straight State” RAP Sheet: Tavis Coburn by Sarah Barringer Gordon The Table: André Da Loba The journal had a banner year in 2012-2013, surpassing one million Theology Has Consequences: What Policies Will The States of the Union Project: John Hendrix pageviews and reaching nearly a quarter of a million unique visitors. In Pope Francis Champion? by Mary E. Hunt April, it was recognized as an Official Honoree at the 17th Annual Webby Editorial Advisory Board Awards in the category of best Religion and Spirituality website. Hailed as Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department Asad Ahmed University of California, Berkeley the “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York Times, the Webby Awards, Pursued Greater Religious Engagement by Amy Frykholm Marla F. Frederick Harvard University presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences Unrepresentative: How the NRA and Planned Ari L. Goldman Columbia University (IADAS), is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Parenthood Failed Recent Tests Kevin Eckstrom Religion News Service Internet. This year, Webby Awards received 11,000 entries from all 50 by Michael Peppard Melissa Harris-Perry Tulane University states and more than 60 countries worldwide. Honorees are selected for What Does Shari’a Really Mean? Paul Harvey University of Colorado recognition based on excellence in content, structure and navigation, by Krystina Friedlander at Colorado Springs visual design, functionality, interactivity, and overall experience. Religion What Ever Happened to the Common Ground on M. Cathleen Kaveny University of Notre Dame & Politics was honored alongside On Being With Krista Tippett, CNN Abortion Reduction? T. J. Jackson Lears Rutgers University by John Gehring Belief Blog, Oxford Islamic Studies Online, and HuffPost Religion. R. Gustav Niebuhr Syracuse University What Graham Crackers Can Teach Us About Mark A. Noll University of Notre Dame Whole Foods by Dana Logan Robert A. Orsi Northwestern University Leigh Eric Schmidt Washington University What Romney Wouldn’t Say in St. Louis by Randall Balmer Mark Silk Trinity College When Was the Last Time a Rabbi Prayed at a Presidential Inauguration? Jonathan L. Walton Harvard Divinity School by Rachel Gordan Diane Winston University of Southern California Why I Fight Against Same-Sex Marriage Michael Sean Winters National Catholic Reporter by Eric Teetsel Robert Wuthnow Princeton University

30 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 31 Supporters

We are deeply grateful to the many The Danforth Foundation Dr. William B. and the Reverend Contributors contributors who have given Priscilla Wood Neaves The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Ms. Anna G. Ahrens generously to the John C. Danforth Dr. Jared Murray Baeten Politics owes its existence to the tremendous Center on Religion and Politics in In the fall of 2012, William B. Neaves, an emeritus Mr. Robert S. Boyd generosity of the Danforth Foundation, founded trustee at Washington University in St. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Brock our earliest stage of development. in 1927 by Mr. and Mrs. William H. Danforth. established a professorship for the John C. Ms. Lourene W. Clark The Foundation’s commitment to funding St. Ms. Karen Levin Coburn Their gifts directly support the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics in Mr. Brian C. and Mrs. Martha E. Cunningham Center’s research projects, faculty Louis-based initiatives is well known, and in honor of his wife, Priscilla Wood Neaves. The Mrs. Rebecca C. Davolt 2009 it announced a major gift of $30 million to Reverend Mrs. Neaves is a former Methodist Mrs. Katie Corey DiLeo mentorship of undergraduate and Washington University to establish the Center. Dr. Jasmine Nicole Dimitriou minister with a personal interest in the role of Mr. Henry W. and Mrs. Ellen S. Dubinsky John C. Danforth, former Senator from Missouri graduate students, our postdoctoral gender in religion and politics. William Neaves Hon. Nancy B. Firestone fellows, our online journal, and our and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was has served on the Washington University Board Mrs. Gloria A. Goetsch varied public programming. Thank particularly engaged in the Center’s founding of Trustees since 2003 and is a current member Mr. Francis Joseph M. Goldkamp and remains a member of its National Advisory Prof. R. Marie Griffith you for making possible our many of the National Council for the School of Ms. P. Hannele Haapala Board. This gift reflects Senator Danforth’s Medicine. In addition to this generous gift to the Hon. Jean C. Hamilton endeavors. specific interest in religion and politics, as set Danforth Center, the couple is donating Wood Ms. Sally I. Heller out in his 2006 book, Faith and Politics: How Ms. Debra B. Kennard Neaves’s library containing books on gender and Mr. Gary L. Kornell the “Moral Values” Debate Divides America and religion to Olin Library. Dr. Henry Warren Kunce How to Move Forward Together (Viking). Dr. Jonathan and Mrs. Carla Leffert Center Director Marie Griffith holds the John C. Mark D. Jordan, a member of the Center Faculty, Mr. John S. and Mrs. Laura Lewis Meyer Danforth Distinguished University Professorship Dr. Bill and Mrs. Louise Chopin Morris holds the Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Mr. Max Perry Mueller that was established as a part of this generous Distinguished Professorship that was established Dr. William B. Neaves founding gift. We thank Senator and Mrs. (Sally) by this generous gift. We thank Dr. William B. Mr. George K. and Mrs. Alice Philips Ms. Johanna Potts Danforth, and the Danforth Foundation, for and the Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves for Ms. Dorothy F. Reichenbach their tremendous generosity and continuing their extraordinary support of the Center and of Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. Rose encouragement of the Center. Professor Jordan, in particular. Dr. William A. Rubenstein Dr. Mark Ruffo Ms. Kelly Sartorius Prof. Leigh Eric Schmidt Mrs. Barbara Martin Smith Dr. Jamieson Spencer Mr. William S. Stoll Ms. Lauren Ann Triebenbach Mr. Ronald N. Van Fleet II Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wagoner Mr. Mark Weinrich Mr. Robert Wierschem Mrs. Carol K. Winston American Council of Learned Societies Sara & Fred Epstein Family Foundation

Please see our website, rap.wustl.edu, for the most current list of supporters and information on how you can support the center.

32 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 33 Looking Forward

As our faculty and student numbers grow, the Center will expand in ways that are most appropriate to our scholarly and public mission. As we look ahead, we will continue working to attract constituencies from across the political spectrum: audiences both local and national, liberal and conservative, and holding a wide range of views on religion.

We will continue to value intellectual rigor as well as moral courage in facing very tough issues and refusing simplistic solutions.

Our programming will remain inclusive, in the sense of engaging a truly broad and diverse range of viewpoints and people without elevating a single one.

We intend to make a significant impact on undergraduate and graduate education at Washington University and to foster excellence through our rotating postdoctoral and dissertation fellowships, as well as visiting faculty.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we aim to play a role in improving political discourse in the United States, and raising the understanding of religion’s long and complex role in our nation’s social and political life.

34 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 35 New Appointments/Faculty

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp Lerone A. Martin

We are delighted Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp will join Rush California; articles on Mormon-Protestant Lerone Martin will join the Center as the Lerone currently serves on the American the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics July conflicts in the Pacific Islands, African Americans second postdoctoral fellow for the 2013-14 Academy of Religion Steering Committee for the 1, 2013, as a distinguished professor. Maffly-Kipp’s in Haiti and Africa, and Protestant outreach academic year. Lerone earned his B.A. from Afro-American Religious History Group as well research and teaching focus on African American to Chinese immigrants in California; a recent Anderson University in Anderson, IN and as the Committee on Teaching and Learning. In religions, religion on the Pacific borderlands of volume of essays entitled Practicing Protestants: his Master of Divinity Degree from Princeton the past, he has worked as a research consultant the Americas, and issues of intercultural contact. Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630- Theological Seminary before completing his for continuing education and recidivism at In April of 2012, Maffly-Kipp presented a lecture 1965 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) Ph.D. at Emory University in 2011. From 2010- New York’s Sing Sing State Prison as well as an at the Center titled: “The Long Approach to the with Leigh Schmidt and Mark Valeri; and a 2013, Lerone was Assistant Professor of instructor at Georgia’s Metro State Prison. His Mormon Moment: The Building of an American co-edited collection of essays about Mormonism American Religious History and Culture at commentary and writing have appeared in Church.” Both her wealth of knowledge and her in the Pacific World, Proclamation to the People: Eden Theological Seminary in Saint Louis, popular media outlets such as CNN, Religion care for students will greatly enrich the Center Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and the Pacific MO, where he taught courses in American and Dispatches, Charisma, The Saint Louis Post- and Washington University. In the words of Marie Basin Frontier, (University of Utah press, 2008). African American religious history. After his Dispatch, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. Griffith, Director of the Center on Religion and Most recently she authored Setting Down the year at the center, Lerone will join the faculty of Politics: “We are tremendously fortunate to have Sacred Past: African-American Race Histories Wake Forest University as Assistant Professor of recruited someone of Laurie’s immense talent and (Harvard University Press, 2010); American African American Religions. Lerone will teach commitment to the Danforth Center. Renowned Scriptures, a Penguin Classics anthology of a seminar for the center exploring historical as a scholar, a teacher of both undergraduate and sacred texts (Penguin, 2010); and Women’s Work, aspects of African American religion in the graduate students, and a University citizen, she a co-edited collection of writings by African spring of 2014. is an extraordinary addition to the Washington American women historians (Oxford University University campus and the broader St. Louis Press, 2010). Currently she is working on a survey Lerone is currently completing a book project community.” of Mormonism in American life that will be with New York University Press entitled published by Basic Books. Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Maffly-Kipp’s publications are many and include: Making of Modern American Religion. The Religion and Society in Frontier California (Yale Maffly-Kipp will come to the Center from the monograph tracks the role of the phonograph University Press, 1994), where she explored the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where in the shaping of American religion, culture, nature of Protestant spiritual practices in Gold she has taught in Religious Studies and American and politics during the first half of the Studies since 1989. She earned her B.A., summa twentieth century. In support of his research, cum laude, from Amherst College in English and Lerone has received fellowships from the Religion, and completed the Ph.D. in American Louisville Institute for the Study of American History at Yale University (1990). She is the Religion, Emory University’s Howard Hughes recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, Medical Institute, The Fund for Theological including a grant for a collaborative project on Education, and Princeton University’s Program the History of Christian Practice from the Lilly (now Center) for African American Studies. Endowment, Inc., fellowships at the National Humanities Center, and an NEH Fellowship for University Professors.

36 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 37 New Appointments/Associate Director New Appointments/Graduate Students

Rachel M. Lindsey 2013-14 Dissertation Fellows

Rachel Lindsey will join the Center as our new sensibilities during the tumultuous period Emily Johnson and Rachel Gross are the recipients of our inaugural Dissertation Fellowships for the Associate Director, effective July 1, 2013. In this of American history stretching from 1839 2013-2014 academic year. Fellows will spend the academic year in residence at the Center with most position, Dr. Lindsey will have direct oversight through the end of the century. Her work of their time devoted to dissertation research and writing. They will also contribute to the Center’s of the Center’s curricular developments, the approaches photographs as material artifacts intellectual life by organizing an event or conference of interest to the broader University and St. Louis new minor in religion and politics, and student that require attention to their circumstances of community and will participate in the Center’s colloquium. programming, among other areas. production, circulation, and beholding as well as the visual field within the compositional Rachel Gross Rachel earned the B.A. from Missouri State frame. Rachel is a contributor to the blog Rachel Gross is a Ph.D. candidate in the Religion University in 2006 and the Ph.D. from Princeton Religion in American History. in the Americas program in Princeton University in 2012, where she was also a graduate University’s Religion Department. Her work student affiliate in the Program in American Rachel received an Andrew C. Mellon Disserta- focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary Studies. Rachel is a historian of religion in tion Completion Fellowship and taught in the American Jews, particularly the ethnographic America who has teaching and research interests religion department at Florida State University study of contemporary Jews, the visual and in visual and material culture, religion in media before coming to Washington University in St. material cultures of American religions, and and technology, race, and gender. She has Louis. She is a Research Affiliate with the Initia- the role of space and place in the formation of taught courses on religion in American history, tive for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures religious communities. introduction to world religions, as well as a of Religion at Yale University. graduate seminar in material culture studies of Emily Johnson American religion. Emily Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Yale University. Her work focuses Her current book project, A Communion of on the intersections between religion, politics, and Shadows: Vernacular Photography and Religion gender among conservative evangelical Protestants in Nineteenth-Century America, explores in the late twentieth century United States. Americans’ eager incorporation of innovative visual technologies into their visual habits, mourning practices, self-definitions, and biblical Visiting Graduate Students Hannah L. Hofheinz is a Th.D. candidate in Theology at Harvard University. Her work explores the effects of processes of writing on academic theology through a critical engagement with the Indecent Theology of Marcella Althaus-Reid. Sherrema Bower is currently working on her Ph.D. in the Anthropology of Religion from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Her current research focuses on cross- cultural comparisons between two Pentecostal denominations in two countries, New Zealand and the U.S. 38 John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Annual Report 2012-2013 39 Coming Events

Below is a sample of events planned for 2013-14. Please check our website at rap.wustl.edu for the most current list.

Fall 2013 Spring 2014

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 FEBRUARY 27, 2014 Center Open House and Faculty Guido Calabresi Public Lecture Reception Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, SEPTEMBER 25, 2013 Guido Calabresi was appointed U.S. Circuit Judge Immigration Panel Discussion in 1994. This event addresses the current status of MARCH 27-29, 2014 our nation’s immigration crisis and explains why faith-based organizations are active “Beyond the Culture Wars: Recasting in this humanitarian and political arena. Religion and Politics in 20th Panel speakers will include Ruth Melkonian- Century America” Hoover of Gordon College; Richard Land, the This academic conference will feature a keynote outgoing president of the Ethics & Religious lecture by James Kloppenberg of Harvard Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist University. Senior and junior scholars will present Convention; Ryan Fitzpatrick, an attorney at papers that address the conference’s two main the Interfaith Legal Services for Immigrants; aims: to take stock of recent advances and points and Marilyn Lorenz, co-founder and program of exchange in the historical study of U.S. religion director of St. Louis Inter-Faith Committee on and politics, and to introduce fresh, integrated Latin America and board member of Missouri scholarship that maps out new directions in this Immigrant & Refugee Advocates. burgeoning field.

OCTOBER 21, 2013 Wallace Best Public Lecture Professor Wallace Best, Princeton University, specializes in 19th and 20th century African American religious history.

NOVEMBER 18-21, 2013 Danforth Distinguished Lecture Series: David A. Hollinger Preston Hotchkis Professor Emeritus at University of California Berkeley, David Hollinger specializes in the intellectual and ethnoracial histories of the United States since the late nineteenth century.

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