University at Albany, State University of New York

Ph.D. in American History, 2003

University of North Carolina at Asheville

Master of Liberal Arts, 1996

University of North Carolina at Asheville

Bachelor of Arts in History, 1991

“The Perfect Rule of the Christian Religion”: A History of Sandemanianism in the Eighteenth Century  Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press (Forthcoming, Jan. 2009)

“To Hear News from Heaven”: A History of the First Great Awakening in America, 1725-1775 (Book Manuscript--in progress)

“The Divine Fire”: Documents of the First Great Awakening (Book Manuscript--in progress)

A r t i c l e s   i n   J o u r n a l s

“’Do Not Make Medicine But Pray’: American Indian Revivalism in the Eighteenth Century” (draft under review by the American Indian Quarterly)

“’Sober Dissent’ and ‘Spirited Conduct’: The Sandemanians and the American Revolution, 1765-1781,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts XXVIII, No. 2 (Summer 2000): 142-166

African American National Biography, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed., s.v. "Anthony Johnson," "Thomas Jeremiah," "Samuel Fraunces," "Christopher McPherson," "Vincent Populus," New York: Oxford University Press, 2008

Encyclopedia of Colonial Warfare in North America to 1775, Spencer C. Tucker, ed., s.v. "Albany Conference," "Black Robes," "Captivity Narratives," "Gaspee, burning of the (9 Jun. 1772)," "Golden Hill, Battle of (19 Jan. 1770)," "Jesuits," "Praying Indians/Praying Towns," "Puritans," "Quaker Pacifism," "Rowlandson, Mary White (1653-1678)," "Sons of Liberty," Santa Barbara and Oxford: Oxford University Press/ABC-CLIO Publications, 2007

Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia, Will Kaufman and Heidi MacPherson, eds., s.v. "Colonists and Settlers: British in North America," "Lexington and Concord, Battles of (1775)," "Loyalism and Loyalists (US)," Santa Barbara and Oxford: Oxford University Press/ABC-CLIO Publications, 2005

Encyclopedia of New York State, Peter R. Eisenstadt, ed., s.v. "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts," Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005:  1433

Dictionary of American History, 3^rd ed., Andrew Reiser, ed., s.v. "Eagle, American," (with Alvin F. Harlow) New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002:  99-100

Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism, Brenda Brasher, ed., s.v. "Sanctification," Great Barrington, Mass.: Routledge Press/Berkshire Reference Works, 2001: 434-435

"’Great Multitudes Flocking after Him’: The Great Awakening among Common People," in John A. Grigg, ed., Colonial America (Perspectives in American Social History), Vol. I.  Santa Barbara, CA: Oxford University Press/ABC-CLIO Publications, 2008

"’The Promised Day of the Lord’: American Millennialism and Apocalypticism, 1735-1783," in Richard Connors and Andrew Colin Gow, eds., Anglo-American Millennialism, from Milton to the Millerites (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, Vol. 113), Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004: 115-157

"Yes, the Great Awakening Was a Key Factor Leading to the American Revolution," in Keith Krawczynski, ed., History in Dispute: The American Revolution, Detroit: Thomson/Gale, 2003: 146-149

"'Can Two Walk Together, Except They Be Agreed?" review of Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism, by Chris Beneke (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, Vol. 8, No. 1 (October 2007) http://www.common-place.org/vol-08/no-01/reviews/smith.shtml

"Missed Opportunities," review of At Ease in Zion:  A Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900, by Rufus B. Spain (Reprint, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003), H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (June 2004)  www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews

"One Great Conversation," review of Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War, by E. Brooks Holifield (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, Vol. 4, No. 3 (April 2004)  www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-03/reviews/smith.shtml

"The Irrepressible Rev. Mather Byles, Sr.: Loyalist Wit," DLAR News: The Newsletter of the David Library of the American Revolution, Vol. V, No. 2 (Fall 2001): 1-4

12 April 2008, Phi Alpha Theta North-Central and Northeast Texas Regional Meeting, Session Chair/Commentator, “Surviving Natural and Man-Made Maladies,” Fort Worth, TX

15 March 2008, Southwestern Historical Association/Southwestern Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, “’More Like True Religion Than Anything I Ever Observed’: Asserting the American Indian Presence in the First Great Awakening,” Las Vegas, NV

10 June 2007, Joint Meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Society of Early Americanists, “Do Not ‘Make Medicine’ But Pray”: Religious and Cultural Revivalism among Eastern Woodlands Indian Peoples, 1750-1770,” Williamsburg, VA

14 April 2006, Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Session Commentator, “Conflict, Crisis, and Currency in Early America,” San Antonio, TX

7 January 2006, American Society of Church History Winter Meeting, “’May God Preserve Our [Churches] Amidst All Attacks’: Sandemanianism and Calvinism in Pre-Revolutionary New England,” Philadelphia, PA

16 September 2005, The East Texas Historical Association Fall Meeting, Chair, Phi Alpha Theta Session, Nacogdoches, TX

17 April 2002, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Spring Colloquia Series, "’A Salvation from Heaven’: The Fate of Dissenting Protestantism in British North America, 1745-1775," Williamsburg, VA

10 July 2001, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Seventh Annual Conference, Session Commentator, "Rethinking Religion in a Commercial World: Contexts, Contest, and the Meaning of Revolutionary Community," Glasgow, Scotland

4 January 2001, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, "’A Principle of Duty’: American Anglicanism in the Crucible of Revolution, 1760-1783," Oxford, England

30 October 2000, Center for Millennial Studies Fifth Annual Conference, "’The Promised Day of the Lord’: American Millennialism and Apocalypticism, 1755-1783," Boston, MA.

29 April 2000, Joint Meeting of the American Society of Church History and the American Catholic Historical Association, "Patriots of Necessity: The Baptist Commitment to the American Revolution Reconsidered," Santa Fe, N.M. (Session/Panel Co-Organizer)

16 October, 1999, New England Historical Association Fall Conference, "’Sober Dissenters’: The Sandemanians and the American Revolution, 1765-1781," Boston, MA.

29 June 1999, Brunel-Cambridge Conference on Early American History and Culture, "The Pretense of Agreement: A Reevaluation of the Baptist Commitment to the American Revolution, 1765-1783," London, England

4 March 1999, Society of Early Americanists First Biennial Meeting, "’Spirited Conduct’: The Sandemanians of Boston, 1766-1778," Charleston, S.C.

Texas A&M University-Commerce, Research Mini-Grant, April 2006

The David Library of the American Revolution, Residential Fellowship, July-August 2001

University of Glasgow, Early American Studies Fellowship, February 2001

University at Albany Graduate Student Organization, Research Grant, March 2000

University at Albany Benevolent Association, Research Grant, December 1999

Induction into Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Chi-Delta Chapter, March 1999

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