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...

***Attention Historians*** Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for July 2025. A thread. 1/

ATTENTION CURRENT AND FORMER JCB FELLOWS! As planning for 2026 is well underway at the JCB, we're soliciting current and former fellows' proposals for items to include in our forthcoming year-long exhibit "1776 Across the Americas." 1/3 Complete the survey here shorturl.at/9FVYi!

Thanks to Kyle Roberts and the Congregational Library & Archives for the chance to discuss my new book and its implications for thinking about the Congregational legacy and US religious history. @congrelib.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social youtu.be/GfFltKmfdWo?...

Wishing I could be as “productive” as these two 🤣

ND American Studies is hiring! We have two searches this year:

Villanova University, where I am currently working, has a position in digital sociology and/or STS studies. I am not on the search committee and happy to answer any questions you may have. www.higheredjobs.com/state/detail...

Excited to see my article “Protestant Hebrew: Performing Religious Authority through Eighteenth-Century Language Production” is available via FirstView with Religion and American Culture! #amrel www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

Happening now on AskHistorians! Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

I'll be doing an Ask Me Anything on r/AskHistorians on Wednesday, July 16 and am looking forward to questions about *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake* (NYU, 2025). nyupress.org/978147982978...

Back at the AAS in Worcester for summer research - looking through manuscript submissions to early American newspapers that didn’t make it to publication

Thrilled to share the news that I just signed a book contract! Unpublishing Religion: Race, Heterodoxy, and the Printing Press in Early America (tentative title) will be published with NYU Press as part of their North American Religions series.

#Acrel Job: Assistant Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. Review of applications begins September 8, 2025. apply.interfolio.com/169022

Almost one month left to submit a proposal to present research on Black Religion in the Americas in the Crossroads Project's seminar. It is open to advanced graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars.

Call for proposals to present research in a new Crossroads Project virtual seminar on Black Religion in the Americas. All scholars in the field are welcomed to apply, but I'm especially interested in supporting independent and contingent scholars and advanced graduate students.

👀 www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

For independent and contingent #AcRel scholars: Short-term visiting scholar program at Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion. $3,000 stipend, lodging, travel, and meals for a week-long residency. Deadline: July 1, 2025

Dissertation fellowship for scholars of queer and/or trans studies in religion. Deadline: May 23

Many thanks to @historianca.bsky.social, Shari Rabin, and Pippa Koch for an amazing conversation on early America in religious studies! And Seth Perry for taking this photo of us right before our roundtable

Excited to be back in NJ/Philly area for this conference hosted by the McNeil Center on the state of the field of Early American Studies (and repping religious studies)