Good morning friends-- this evening we kick off a conference on a topic that's pretty darn On Point -- how do we think about religion*s* and freedom*s* in early America? News you can use. And we start with a conversation w @benjaminepark.bsky.social abt Mormonism. Join us via zoom! Link below⬇️

Tomorrow! We're thrilled to welcome participants in the Religions and Freedom c. 1776 conference to campus, and we are excited to welcome Dr. Benjamin Park as our keynote speaker. Full conference proceedings are available online at jcblibrary.org. Join us!

In case you missed when I posted last night, my piece on Pope Leo, slavery and the context of the apology in light of AI www.ms.now/opinion/pope...

Excited to share that starting the 2026-2027 academic year, I will be a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Vermont. I'm grateful and excited to continue my research and teaching alongside amazing colleagues @uvmvermont.bsky.social

Registration is open for Religions and Freedom, c. 1776! :) jcblibrary.org/events/confe...

Check out @gradualdigging.bsky.social's forthcoming *American Preacher: The Life and Times of the Eccentric Lorenzo Dow,* now with a cover image and available for pre-order.

We’re hiring! 📣 The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale seeks a recent humanities PhD with experience in program-building, innovative humanities work, and higher ed service for a Postdoctoral Associate in Humanities Leadership. $70K + $3K stipend | Deadline: June 12, 2026 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/185526

Really excited to be part of this volume edited by @kecarte.bsky.social on Religion and America's Founding Era, alongside brilliant colleagues. It is available for pre-order and will be published this upcoming September! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10229/...

The Friends Historical Association is pleased to announce its grants application cycle is officially open for 2026-2027.! Funds are available in support of research, projects, and book subventions in the fields of Quaker History and Quaker Studies. The deadline for each application is June 19, 2026:

Another late-breaking postdoc in Humanities Leadership at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center. The person in charge has said they will begin reviewing applications June 13 (which means the deadlines on this posting are to be ignored)

Really looking forward to sharing my work on religion and the printing press for the Conference on Religions and Freedoms c. 1776 @jcblibrary.bsky.social

Meet the host and panelists for the upcoming Religion & Revolution episode! Register and learn more: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...

In case anyone happens to be in New Haven today, my book launch is this afternoon. I’m honored to be in conversation with these brilliant folks

Job alert! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is hiring a tenure-track digital archivist. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. Please share widely! This is a great collection, full of hidden gems, in an academic library committed to students. apply.interfolio.com/184021

10 grants available (up to €300) for travel and expenses to join us in Trento, Italy, 16-18 September, for postgrads and ECRs working on a topic related to 'Circulating Faith: Christian Missions in a Global Perspective (1500–2000)' deadline 30 April isig.fbk.eu/it/news/deta... #earlymodern 🗃️

By studying the visual, material, and religious cultures of Africa, Latin America, and Europe in the early modern Atlantic world, Professor Cécile Fromont, PhD '93, uses art and visual culture to interrogate what societies choose to see—or ignore.

Doing a cool JCB Reads event today at noon (eastern)-- join us to hear from Katharine Gerbner about her fascinating book on 18th century Obeah. And working through and around the archives of criminalized religiosity. Join us! jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

RIP Jurgen Habermas - one of the five major social theorists of the past 60 years. Much to learn from his work. Many gaps, some errors, but he was so rigorous that he inspired some of the best simultaneously dissenting and generative thought of any postwar academic.

Postdoc on American Religion at Indiana University www.aarsbl.org/listing/amer... #aarsbl #religiousstudies

I'm hiring! 🏛️ This is a VA-based, hybrid 3-year position for a historian working on digital projects related to religious history. We'll also be hiring a historian working on onsite programming and training related to religious history. Feel free to reach out! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

JOB ALERT! 📜📚 Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin? apply.workable.com/middleburyco...

🚨 REPOST & SHARE 🚨 Our team is hiring more Advising Fellows! If you have a PhD (or equiv.) & like advising and teaching undergrads, this is the job for you. Great pay, flexible course design, a wonderful liberal arts community, & lots of students to support! jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

I’m also very much looking forward to visiting the @uvmvermont.bsky.social next week for a book talk on "Martyrs and Migrants" @nyupress.bsky.social. Here are the details: Date: Tuesday, March 3 Time: 3:30–5:00 PM Location: Lafayette 210 If you are in the area, I’d love to see you there.

Just got my copy, excited to dig in!

Deadline today but please if you're interested drop us a line! Conference on Religions and Freedoms c 1776 (really, VERY broadly circa), joint @jcblibrary.bsky.social and the Danforth Center for Religion and Politics at Wash U. TIMELY STUFF. More info and link here: jcblibrary.org/events/confe...

Academic and Native friends, please share this CFP and/or consider submitting a proposal! The organizers would love perspectives from outside the academy as well. www.historic-deerfield.org/call-for-pro...

2-yr Visiting Assistant Professor in Religion in the US at Middlebury College. Deadline 2/7/2026 "Among the courses expected from the candidate will be an introductory course on religion in America and a course on the intersections of religion and politics in the contemporary United States."

Closing out my fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society looking at Hawaiian translations of Psalms. I briefly mention them in the epilogue of the book, but there’s always more to be said about them!

Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation Volume 34 Issue 2 is Now Available! This issue features articles featuring topics such as health, society, feminism, communication, and more! Read the articles here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you or someone you know is a scholar of color who studies religion, here's a great opportunity: louisville-institute.org/programs-gra...

1 year VAP in Religion at Hamilton College to teach courses "on religions in the Americas, with a focus on religion and politics." Special interest in research "on the intersections of religion and postcolonialism and/or decolonization movements." Deadline 1/12/26 apply.interfolio.com/177313

Job Opportunity! Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400 University of Cambridge - History and Philosophy of Science www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG062/a...

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

Excited to share that my article with Religion and American Culture, "Protestant Hebrew: Performing Religious Authority through Eighteenth-Century Language Production" is now available via Open Access! #amrel #religiousstudies www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The @oah.org is accepting submissions for the John D'Emilio Award, which recognizes the best dissertation(s) written in LGBTQ+ history/studies (broadly conceived) over the past year (July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025). Submissions are due November 1. Please share this call widely! 🗃️

Do you have an idea for a short article (~2000-3000 words) on early American history/literature/art/material culture before 1900? We are accepting submissions at Commonplace or please reach out to me with a pitch or questions. More info below:🗃️ commonplace.online/article/subm...

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

@dukepress.bsky.social is running a new book promotion, and Archival Irruptions is 30% off!

My department is hiring in African history and the United States since 1865! Both positions are tenure-track, and both hires will be made at the assistant level. I'm not on either search committee (sabbatical, babyyyyy), but I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have. 🗃️

Note to anyone traveling to Boston: one of their airport runways is down for construction and is causing absolute madness. My flight was delayed two hours coming in, and our Boston crew said this is standard now. Will probably be this way through Thanksgiving. (Take note AAR folk.)

Submit your abstracts on Christian apocrypha and come hang out with us at UVA this spring!

With a new book coming out, I finally got around to updating my website. I'm thrilled with the new design - plus, my bio now includes the accurate number of children! (Last edit to my previous website was 7 years ago...) Check it out! www.katharinegerbner.com

I have a huge backlog of books to get through in the middle of the semester, but I'm very much looking forward to adding to the list Will Schultz's new book on evangelical capitalism with UNC Press and eventually digging into it! #amrel uncpress.org/978146968937...

***Attention Historians*** Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for September 2025. A thread. I will update the thread over the course of the month. 1/

Visiting Research Scholar in African American Studies at Princeton whose work focuses on"race in the national or global contexts." "With the approval of the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the VRS will teach one semester-long undergraduate elective course." Deadline 12/15/2025

Save the date for this fantastic conference at Princeton: October 3-4, 2025. *In the Flow: Religious Movements Through Space, Time and Power,* organized by Professor Nicole Myers Turner. Free and open to the public. Registration required.

Study of religion and spirituality among the listed interests for this position in Africana Studies.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...