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...

New job posting in #religiousstudies: Religion and Science at UNC-Chapel Hill #amrel unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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)

My next book. Out in September! @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

SUCH a great interview on SUCH a great film between SUCH brilliant scholars of religion and culture. #Sinners @mpgphd.bsky.social 🙏🏼 | religiondispatches.org/i-dont-do-ho...

The @uncpress.bsky.social acquisitions team is hiring an assistant! We are looking for someone detail oriented with great communication skills who is intellectually curious and interested in academic publishing. This is a great #publishingjob in the @aupresses.bsky.social community.

Another excellent day of #AmRel mail, with the arrival of @apetro.bsky.social’s new book, *Provoking Religion”!

The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.

CFP. SHEAR invites scholars to apply for the 6th Annual Biography Workshop, July 17, 2025 at Brown. Sessions include chapter workshopping and reflections on subject choice, structure, and archival gaps. Call now live on the #JERPano: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/15/s...

So delighted for my brilliant advisee @chanheeheo.bsky.social and the fantastic group of postdocs starting at the @ctrrelpol-washu.bsky.social this fall! rap.wustl.edu/news/jpostdo...

Really excited for this roundtable on Early America in #religiousstudies at the McNeil Center at UPenn with brilliant colleagues (see program link below). If you’re in the NJ/Philly area that first weekend of May, we’d love for you to join us! #amrel mceas.org/where-early-am…

On April 10, join us for Religion & the Madhouse: featuring @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social. Our conversation will unpack facets of her forthcoming book, Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake (NYU Press, 2025). Register here: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...

Philadelphia area folks: @antheabutler.bsky.social is hosting a screening of the film *Dahomey* as part of an @xroadproj.bsky.social symposium on materiality and Africana religions. Thursday, April 3 @ 5:00pm at Public Trust, 4017 Walnut Street. crossroads.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Coming Fall 2025 from @fordhampress.bsky.social Co-edited with the amazing @clukasik.bsky.social. It’s also lovely to see another one of my photos grace the cover of a FUP book. 🎉