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Randall
J. Stephens
Curriculum
Vitae
Office: 106 Cameron Center, Department of History,
Eastern Nazarene College, 23 East Elm Avenue
Quincy,
Massachusetts 02170
phone: (617)
847-5816
email:
randall.stephens@enc.edu
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EDUCATION
2003
Ph.D., Phi
Beta Kappa, American History
University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Dissertation: "The Fire Spreads: The Origins of the
Southern Holiness and Pentecostal
Movements"
Chair: Bertram
Wyatt-Brown
Committee
Members: Grant
Wacker, Duke University; W.
Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina; David
G. Hackett, University of Florida; John
Sommerville, University of Florida
1998 Master
of Arts, History
Emporia
State University, Emporia, KS
Graduated
summa cum laude
1998 Master
of Arts, Theological Studies
Nazarene
Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO
Graduated
magna cum laude
1995 Bachelor
of Arts, History
MidAmerica
Nazarene College, Olathe, KS
Graduated
magna cum laude
AREAS
OF EXPERTISE
Late
19th and early 20th Century US History, Cultural History, American
Religious
History, the Populist Movement, Historical Theology, Gender, American
Popular
Music
EMPLOYMENT/TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor
of History, Eastern Nazarene
College
(2008-)
Assistant
Professor of History, Eastern Nazarene
College
(2004-2008)
Editor, Historically
Speaking (2009-)
Associate
editor, Historically
Speaking (2005-2008)
University
of Florida, History Department,
Adjunct Professor (Spring-Summer 2004)
US
History to 1877, US History Since 1877
University
of Florida, History Department,
Teaching Associate
US
History Since 1877 (Fall 2003)
Santa
Fe Community
College, History
Department, Adjunct
US
History Since 1877 (Fall 2003)
University
of Florida, History Department,
Teaching Assistant
US
History to 1877 (Spring 2001)
America
in
Vietnam (Fall 2000)
Western
Civilization,
Middle Ages to the 18th Century (Spring 2000)
US
History
Since 1877 (Fall 1999))
Emporia
State
University, Department
of Social Sciences, Teaching Assistant
World
Civilization I (Fall 1995, Spring 1996)
World
Civilization
II (Fall 1995, Spring 1996)
BOOKS:
AUTHOR
The
Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American
South (Harvard
University Press, 2008)
CURRENT
BOOK PROJECTS:
CO-AUTHOR, EDITOR
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Peer-Reviewed
“The
Holiness/Pentecostal/Charismatic Extension of the Wesleyan Tradition,”
in Cambridge
Companion to John
Wesley (Cambridge
University Press, 2010).
Sam
Jones' Own Book,
1886. With a new introduction by Randall J. Stephens. Southern
Classics Series (University
of South Carolina Press, 2009).
"'Ohio villains'
and ‘pretenders to new revelations': Wesleyan
Abolitionists in North Carolina and Virginia, 1847-1857," in a
Festschrift for Bertram Wyatt-Brown (Forthcoming, University Press of Florida).
"'There is Magic in
Print': The Holiness Pentecostal Press and the
Origins of Southern Pentecostalism,” in Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on
Southern Religion and Culture (University of Kentucky Press
2008).
"Interpreting American Pentecostal Origins: Retrospect and Prospect" in
Interpreting
Denominational History: Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the
Future (Forthcoming, University
of Alabama Press 2008).
"'There
is Magic in Print': The Holiness-Pentecostal Press and the Origins
of Southern Pentecostalism," Journal
of Southern Religion 5 (2002).
"The Convergence
of Populism, Religion, and the Holiness-Pentecostal Movements: A Review
of the Historical Literature," Fides et Historia
32, no. 1 (Winter/Spring
2000): 51-64.
Not
Peer-Reviewed
“Listening to Reason: Classical Music in the 19th Century,” with Delvyn
Case, Books and Culture (Forthcoming).
"Devout
Racism" a book review essay, Christian
Century, 10 March 2009.
"What
does Azusa have to do with Washington?" Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and
the Public Sphere, 29 September 2008.
"Johnny
Cash's Very American Recordings" a review of Rodney Clapp, Johnny Cash and the Great American
Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of the Nation
(John Knox, 2008) in Christianity
Today, May 29, 2008.
“Pentecost for the Southland,” Historically
Speaking (Jan/Feb 2008).
"Hidden
Under a Bushel: Sufjan Stevens and the Problem of Christian Music,"
with
Delvyn Case, Books
and Culture (Nov/Dec 2006).
"Tell about
the South: The 2005 Conference of the St. George Tucker Society," Historically
Speaking (Sept/Oct
2005).
"Assessing
the Roots of American Pentecostalism: A Historiographic Essay," The
American Religious Experience (April 2000).
INTERVIEWS
“America in the Jacksonian Era: An Interview with David S. Reynolds,”
Historically Speaking (September 2009).
“Rome Unearthed: An Interview with Mary Beard on Pompeii and the
Ancient World,” Historically Speaking (June 2009).
“Religious History and the Historians Craft: An Interview with Amanda
Porterfield,” Historically Speaking (June 2009).
“The Importance of Studying Ordinary Lives: An Interview with Laurel
Thatcher Ulrich,” Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical
Society (April 2009).
"Taking Religion Seriously in the Deep South: An Interview with Wayne
Flynt," The
Journal of Southern Religion vol. 11 (2009).
"Faith
and the Modern Presidency: An Interview with Randall Balmer," Historically Speaking (January
2009).
"Sporting Male Weeklies in 19th Century New York: An Interview with
Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz
Horowitz," Historically Speaking (September/October 2008).
"Making Sense of American Culture in the 1970s: An interview with
Thomas Hine," Historically Speaking
(July/August 2008).
"An Interview with Michael J. Klarman on Race and American Legal
History," Historically Speaking (May/June
2008).
"Religion in American History: An interview with
Stephen Prothero," Historically Speaking (May/June
2008).
"Reconstruction and
the American West: An Interview with Heather Cox
Richardson," Historically Speaking (Sept/Oct
2007).
"Beyond
the Niebuhrs: A Conversation with Robert Orsi on Recent Trends in
American Religious History," Historically
Speaking (July/August
2006).
"Full
Gospel Churches and Murder Ballads: An Interview with Steve Haisman on
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus," The Journal
of Southern Religion, vol. 9 (2006).
"An Interview with Philip L. Fradkin
on Natural Disasters and the Great Quake of 1906," Historically
Speaking (Nov/Dec 2005).
REVIEWS
AND
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
John M. Giggie, After Redemption: Jim Crow and the
Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915,
Journal of Southern History
(Forthcoming)
"Irving
Lowery" and "W. E. Fuller," in African
American National Biography, Henry Louis Gates,
Jr., and Evelyn
Brooks Higginbotham, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2008).
"Assemblies
of God," in Mississippi
Encyclopedia,
Charles Reagan Wilson et al., eds. (Forthcoming,
University Press of
Mississippi).
"'Confess
Your Faults One to Another': Religion and Reform in the
Antebellum Era," a review of Michael P. Young's Bearing Witness against Sin: The
Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement, H-SHEAR
(December 2007).
Joe Creech, Righteous
Indignation: Religion and the Populist Revolution, Journal of Peasant Studies
34:2 (2007).
R. G. Robins, A. J.
Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist, Church History: Studies in Christianity
and Culture (Forthcoming).
"Christian
and Missionary Alliance," "Jones, Charles Price," and "Fire-Baptized
Holiness
Church of God of the Americas," in The
Encyclopedia of Religion in the South, Revised Edition, eds.
Samuel
Hill and Charles H. Lippy (June 2005, Mercer University Press).
Tona J. Hangen, Redeeming
the Dial: Radio Religion, and Popular Culture in America, Gulf South
Historical
Review (Spring 2005).
Douglas Carl
Abrams, "Conformed to this World." Review of Douglas Carl Abrams, Selling
the Old-Time Religion: American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture,
1920-1940, H-South
(September
2004).
Deborah Vansau
McCauley, Laura A. Porter, and Patricia Parker Brunner, Mountain
Holiness:
A Photographic Narrative, Religious
Studies Review.
"More or Less
than Conquerors: The Rise of Southern Gospel." Review of James R. Goff,
Close
Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel on H-South
(August 2002).
Lillian Taiz, Hallelujah
Lads and Lassies: Remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880-1930, Religious
Studies Review (July 2002).
Daniel W. Stowell, Rebuilding
Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877, Fides
Et Historia (Winter/Spring 2002).
Fred Brown
and Jeanne McDonald, The Serpent Handlers: Three Families and Their
Faith, Southern
Historian (Spring 2002).
Barry W. Hamilton, William
Baxter Godbey: Itinerant Apostle of the Holiness Movement, Register
of the Kentucky Historical Society (Autumn 2001).
Briane Turley, A
Wheel within a Wheel: Southern Methodism and the Georgia Holiness
Association, Fides
Et Historia (Winter/Spring 2001).
Paul Harvey, Redeeming
the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern
Baptists,
1865-1925, Fides Et Historia (Winter/Spring 2000).
CONFERENCE
PARTICIPATION AND LECTURES
2010 Invited
presenter, "Teaching American Religious History," Boston College
Conference on the History of Religion (March 2010).
2010 Organizer and
presenter, "American Religious Historians Online: A Roundtable," American
Historical Association, San Diego, CA (January 2010).
2009 Invited presenter, “‘A great many theologians’: Premillennial
Authorities and Modern American Evangelicalism,” Columbia
University’s Religion in America Seminar (November 2009).
2009 Invited presenter, "The 'New' Evangelical History? A Roundtable," American
Academy of Religion, Montréal, Canada (November 2009).
2009 Invited lecturer, “Race, Rock & Religion,” part of the Post War Years, Cold War Fears Program
& Exhibit Series, Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy,
MA (October 2009).
2009 Invited commentator, "Ellen White as
Denomination Builder," Ellen White: American Prophet. A Working
Conference and Book, Portland, ME (October 2009).
2009 Organizer and presenter, “Conservative Evangelical Experts: A
Roundtable,” with Karl Giberson, Jon Roberts, and James Wallace, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind,
15 Years Later, Gordon College, Wenham, MA (October 2009).
2009 “‘And Smile to See a Burning World’: Premillennial Authorities and
Modern American Evangelicalism,” The Boston-Area American
Religious History Group, Boston University (September 2009).
2009 Organizer and commentator for "Religion in the South before 1865,"
The
St. George Tucker Society, Augusta, GA
(August
2009).
2008 "The Myth of
Christian America and Conservative Evangelical History," Duke Divinity
School (November 2008).
2008 Invited lecturer, “The Parallel Culture of American
Evangelicalism,” Bentley College (October 2008).
2008 "We Hold These
Truths: The Christian Origins Myth and Conservative Evangelicalism," New England American Studies Association,
Yale University (September 2008).
2008 "The
Politics of Apocalypse: The Politicization of American Pentecostals," Policy
History Conference, St. Louis, MO (May 2008).
2008 Chair, "The Politics of Civil Rights History," the Historical Society’s
2008 Conference: Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, & Nationalism in
History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (June 2008).
2008 Chair, "Literary History," the Historical Society’s
2008 Conference: Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, & Nationalism in
History, Johns Hopkins University (June 2008).
2008 Invited lecturer, "Pentecostalism and American Religious History,"
Bentley College
(March 2008)
2008 Invited
commentator, "Discerning the Times," joint meeting of
the Wesleyan
Theological Society and the Society for
Pentecostal Studies, Duke University (March 2008).
2007 “Under the Guise of the True Wesleyan Church: Wesleyan
Abolitionists and the Sectional Crisis in North Carolina and Virginia,”
Southern Historians in New England seminar, Yale University (October
2007).
2007 Invited
lecturer, “Religion in American
History
and Culture: The Pentecostal Example,” English
and American Studies Lectures, University of Manchester, UK (April
2007).
2007 “Same as It Ever Was?: Southern Pentecostalism at 100,” The British
Association of American Studies Annual Conference, University of
Leicester, UK (April 2007).
2006
Invited presenter, "Writing for the Web," Southern
Historical Association, Birmingham, AL (November 2006).
2006
Chair of “History and Meaning Revisited,” Conference
on Faith and History, Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK
(September
2006).
2006
Comment for “Rethinking the Bible Belt: Modernization, Culture, and
Religious
Transformation in Twentieth Century America,” Boston
College Conference on the History of Religion, Chestnut Hill, MA
(March
2006).
2005
Invited chair, “Loving Segregation to Death: Reverend James Lawson and
Nonviolent Direct Action in Moderate Nashville,” Southern
Historical Association, Atlanta, GA (November 2005).
2005 "'The mob was to kill a Wesleyan': Wesleyan
Perfectionist Missionaries
in Virginia and North Carolina, 1847-1851," Rethinking
the History of the American South: A Conference in Honor of
BertramWyatt-Brown,
Gainesville, FL (October 2005).
2005 "'Jesus is Coming': Premillennialism and
the Radicalization of the
Southern
Holiness Movement, 1896-1906," Presenter, The
New England Historical Association, Weston, MA (April 2005).
2005 Invited
commentator on William Clair Turner (Associate Professor of the
Practice
of Homiletics, Duke University), "'This Is a Holy Church, This Is a
Sanctified
Church': On Tradition, Reform and Self-Identity Under God Within the
United
Holy Church of America," The Society
For Pentecostal Studies, Virginia Beach, VA (March 2005).
2004 "Neither
Rich nor Poor, Northern nor Southern, Black nor White, Male nor Female:
Cultural and Social Patterns of the Late Nineteenth-Century Southern
Holiness
Movement," The
St. George Tucker Society, Augusta, GA
(August
2004).
2004 "'Angels' from the North: The South and the
Holiness Movement,"
Presenter, American
Society of Church History, Harrisburg, PA (April 2004).
2002 Coordinator
under Bertram Wyatt-Brown for the Douglas Southall Freeman and Southern
Intellectual History Conferences, University of Richmond, VA.
Helped
organize panels, created webpage, attended to conference details.
(February
2002).
2001 "Pentecostalism
Comes to the South," Presenter, The Southern
Historical Association, New Orleans, LA (November 2001).
2001 "The Fire
Spreads: The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement and the Origins of Southern
Pentecostalism," Presenter, The Society
For Pentecostal Studies, Tulsa, OK (March 2001).
2001 "The Fire
Spreads: The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement and the Origins of Southern
Pentecostalism," Presenter, The Sixth Annual Barnes
Club Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (February
2001).
AWARDS
AND
HONORS
2009 Wesleyan Theological Society's Timothy
L. Smith and Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Book Award for The Fire Spreads
2008 Named a Top Young Historian by
the History News Network
2008 The Fire Spreads
nominated by
Harvard University Press for the Francis Parkman
Prize and the Grawemeyer Award
in Religion
2007 Young
Scholars in
American Religion Fellowship, Center for the Study of
Religion and American Culture, Indiana University/Purdue University
at Indianapolis, 2007-2009
2007 Professional
Achievement Award, Eastern Nazarene
College
2007 Religion in American History,
Cliopatria's Best New
Blog
2004
The St. George Tucker Society's Bradford Prize for Best Dissertation in
Southern Studies
2004 One of
fifteen semifinalists for the Allan
Nevins Prize for the Best Dissertation in American History, Society
of American Historians
2004 Richard
J. Milbauer Dissertation Prize for Best Dissertation in History,
University
of Florida
2004 Elected
to membership in Phi Beta Kappa
2003 History
department nominee for university-wide Graduate Teaching Award,
University
of Florida
2003 Journal
of Southern Religion's Sam Hill Award
2002-2003 Dissertation
Fellowship, Louisville
Institute
for the Study of Protestantism and American Culture (Funded by the
Lilly Endowment)
2001 Finalist, Newcombe
Dissertation fellowship, Princeton University
2001 Participant
in the Pew
Younger Scholars Seminar on the Civil War and Reconstruction,
University
of Notre Dame
2001 Jack and
Celia Proctor Award for best essay on Southern History, University of
Florida
2001 Hanger
Research Fellowship, University of Florida
2001 Graduate
Student Travel Award, University of Florida
1998 Laurence
C. Boylan Outstanding Masters Thesis Award, Emporia State University
1994-1995 Art Student of the Year,
Olivet Nazarene University
1994 Elected
to Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities
OTHER
EXPERIENCE
2004- Web design,
oversight, maintenance:
Eastern Nazarene College (webmaster,
September 2006-May 2007)
Journal
of Southern
Religion
Religion in American History
blog
The Boston-Area American
Religious History Group
The Historical
Society
History Department,
Eastern
Nazarene College
The
Polkinghorne Society
Open
Theology and
Science
British
Abolitionism, Moral Progress, & Big Questions in History, A
conference jointly funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the
Historical Society, 26-28 April 2007, Crowne Plaza St. James, London
David
Brion Davis, "Slavery, Emancipation and Human Progress," a free
public lecture, 26 April 2007, Central Hall Westminster, London
Tidal
Wave Magazine
2009- Conference organizer, with Dan Russ, "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind,
15 Years Later," Oct 1-2
2009- Co-editor, Religion in American History
blog
2009- Organizer, with Jon Roberts, the Boston-Area American
Religious History Group
2008 Membership Committee, the Southern Historical
Association
2007- 2009 Contributing editor, Religion in American History
blog
2006- Co-editor, Journal of
Southern Religion
2004-06 Associate
editor, Journal of Southern Religion
2005-
Manuscript reviewer, HarperCollins,
Oxford
University Press, Harvard
University Press, New York
University Press, Church History: Studies in Christianity
and Culture; the Journal of Policy History, Wiley-Blackwell, University
of Alabama Press, The Public Historian, The
Journal
of the Historical Society
2005- Layout
and design for the Historical
Society's
two publications, The
Journal of the Historical Society and Historically
Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society
2001-2002 Research
Assistant to Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of
History,
University of Florida
2001-2004 Editor, Tidal Wave Magazine
(a music, film, and indie-culture publication)
1999 Research
Assistant to W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Professor of History, University of
Florida
1998-1999 Research
Assistant to Robert H. Zieger, Professor of History, University of
Florida
1998-2002 Music
writer for Skyscraper
Magazine (NY), Harp
Magazine (MD), Satellite
Magazine (FL), Tidal
Wave Magazine (FL), and Ink19
(FL)
1996- Member
of indie rock outfit Jetenderpaul,
which released three full length cds, one e.p., and two 7" records on Velvet
Blue Music (Huntington Beach, CA), Burnt
Toast Vinyl (Philadelphia, PA), and Hype
City Records (Norway).
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
The
American Historical Association
The
American Society of Church History
The
Conference on Faith and History
The
Historical Society
The
Organization of American Historians
Southern
Intellectual
History Circle
The
St. George
Tucker Society
Phi
Alpha Theta
Phi
Beta Kappa
The
Southern Historical Association
The
Wesleyan Theological Society
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