UNH Speakers Bureau

A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender, and the Creation of American Protestantism (Book Title)

 

Program Description:

A Mighty Baptism is the first book to address the intersecting roles of race and gender in shaping the Protestant tradition in the United States. Ranging from the 1790s to the 1920s, these interdisciplinary essays cover the entire terrain of American Protestantism, from mainstream denominations to sectarian offshoots to the spiritual borderlands of magic and the occult. (Cornell University PRess, 1996)


Speaker:

Lisa MacFarlane

Lisa MacFarlane is a professor of English and senior vice provost for academic affairs at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include American studies, mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century culture, and photography. She teaches a wide range of classes on American literature, history, and culture: on children’s literature, modernism, world’s fairs, the history of photography, and on American culture internationally. She is the winner of a Teaching Excellence Award, the Walt Whitman Chair (Fulbright Commission), and has been honored by the New England American Studies Association through their establishing the Lisa MacFarlane Award for the best paper by an undergraduate student. She currently serves on the board of the New Hampshire Humanities Council.

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