Christopher D. Cantwell

curriculum vitae

Education:

Ph.D. - Cornell University, expected May 2011.

Dissertation: “The Bible Class Teacher: Piety and Politics in the Age of Fundamentalism.”

Dissertation Committee: Derek Chang (History), Nick Salvatore, (American Studies), Ileen DeVault (Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies).

M.A. - Cornell University, 2006.

Major Field: American History with Derek Chang

Minor Field: Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies with Ileen DeVault

Minor Field: Modern Latin America with Raymond Craib

B.A., summa cum laude, Departmental Honors - University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2003.

Major: History, Minor: Economics

Departmental Honors in History Committee: Robert Gough, James Oberly, Kate Lang and Janice Reiff (outside reader, University of California-Los Angeles).

Experience:

2010-Present Assistant Director, Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and

Culture at the Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois.

2010 Instructor. Newberry Library’s Public Seminars Program. Chicago, Illinois.

2008-2009 Adjunct Instructor. DePaul University, Department of History. Chicago, Illinois.

2008 Lecturer. Cornell University, Department of Labor Relations, Law and History,

School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Ithaca, New York.

2004-2007 Teaching Assistant. Cornell University, Departments of History and American

Studies. Ithaca, New York.

2004 Instructor, Organizer and Fellow. New York Council for the Humanities. Ithaca

and New York, New York.

2002-2003 Archival Assistant. Wisconsin Historical Society, Area Research Center,

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

2001 Teaching Assistant. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Department of Religious

Studies. Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

2001 Curricular Assistant. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Department of History.

Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Courses Taught:

“U.S. History 1900-Present.” (DePaul University)

“U.S. History 1800-1900.” (DePaul University)

“U.S. Social and Labor History, 1865-Present.” (Cornell University)

“Religious Chicago: The City of Big Shoulders on Its Knees.” (Newberry Library)

Teaching Fields:

U.S. History, From Colonial Era to the Present

U.S. Social and Labor History

U.S. Religious History

Gilded Age and the Progressive Era

History of the Family, Childhood and Youth

Lived Religion, Microhistory and Biography

Modern Latin America (Survey Only)

Publications:

· Articles:

“Edmunds-Tucker Act,” “Hymnal Music,” “Sunday School Movement,” and “Women

Evangelists,” in Women in American History: An Encyclopedia, 5 vols., Hasia R. Diner, Eds. (New York: Facts on File, forthcoming).

“Is it Labor or is it Working Class? The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History

Colloquium.” International Labor and Working-Class History 67 (2005): 174-76. With Jeffrey Helgeson.

“‘A Pullman Hell’: Working-Class Religion and Labor Crises, A Case Study,” Astra: The

McNair Scholar’s Research Journal 3 (2004): 9-34.

“Millennialism and Socialism: Eugene V. Debs and America’s Public Protestantism.” PRiSM:

Journal of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (2001): 26-37.

· Book Reviews:

Daniel Coleman, In Bed with the Word: Reading, Spirituality and Cultural Politics in the Journal

of Religion and Popular Culture (forthcoming, 2011).

William Kostlevy, Holy Jumpers: Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America in the

Journal of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (forthcoming, 2011).

Deborah A. Skok, More Than Neighbors: Catholic Settlements and Day Nurseries in Chicago,

1890-1930 and Susan Hoy, Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago’s Past in Journal of the Illinois Historical Society 102 no. 3/4 (Fall 2009/Winter 2010): 467-470.

Sherri Broder, Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in

Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia in International Labor and Working-Class History 68 (Fall, 2005): 150-152.

· Other Publications:

“Suffer the Little Children: Kids and Kid Preachers in American Religious History,” invited

contribution to Religion in American History Blog. 17 Sep. 2010. http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2010/09/suffer-little-children.html.

“Howard Zinn (1922-2010), A Reflection,” Wunderkammer Magazine, Feb. 2010.

http://wunderkammermag.com/politics-and-society-3.

“A City of Big Shoulders and Thick Spines: An Interview with Dominic Pacyga,”

Wunderkammer Magazine, Dec. 2009. http://wunderkammermag.com/book-reviews/interview-dominic-pacyga.

Papers and Presentation:

Panel Organizer and Chair. “Beyond the Protestant Nation: Religion and the Narrative of American History.” Round table discussion at the American Historical Association’s 125^th Annual Meeting featuring Robert A. Orsi, Catherine Albanese, Richard Bushman, Wallace Best and Lela Berman. Boston, Massachusetts. Forthcoming Jan. 2011.

“Doers of the Word: Adult Bible Classes and Urban Reform in the Progressive Era.” American Society for Church History’s Annual Winter Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts. Forthcoming Jan. 2011.

“The Fundamentalism of Frank Wood: An Historiographical Account.” Louisville Institute’s Winter Seminar. Louisville, Kentucky. 21-22 Jan. 2010

“A Bobbed-Hair Lady of Grace: Henrietta Heron and the Genders of American Fundamentalism.” American Historical Association’s 124^th Annual Meeting. Cosponsored by the American Society of Church History. San Diego, Califonira. 7 Jan. 2010.

“‘Once a Member, Always a Member’: Feeling, Faith and Friendship in the Adult Bible Class Movement.” American Historical Association’s 123^rd Annual Meeting. Cosponsored by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. New York, New York. 5 Jan. 2009.

Panel Organizer, “Lived Religion and the Search for Order: Towards an Inner History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era” at American Historical Association’s 123^rd Annual Meeting featuring Mark Edwards, Kathryn Lofton, Susan Curtis, Gillis Harp and myself. Cosponsored by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. New York, New York. 5 Jan. 2009.

“‘Search the Scriptures’: Frank L. Wood, the Wesleyan Bible Class and the Rise of Fundamentalism in Chicago.” Loyola University, Chicago’s Graduate Student History Conference. Chicago, Illinois. 26 Apr. 2008.

“‘One Night I Wandered into the Mission’: The Pacific Garden Mission and the Inner Histories of Industrial America.” Newberry Library’s Fellows Seminar. Chicago, Illinois. 14 Apr 2008.

“‘God Hath Restored My Manhood’: Conversion and Identity at the Pacific Garden Mission.” Boston College’s Biannual Conference on Religious History. Boston, Massachusetts. 14-15 Mar. 2008.

Panel Organizer, “The City of Big Shoulders on its Knees: The Varieties of Christian Identity in Chicago,” at Boston College’s Biannual Conference on Religious History on “Religious Identities,” featuring Nick Salvatore, Davarian Baldwin, Stephen A. Marini and myself. Boston, Massachusetts. 14-15 Mar. 2008.

“An Imperial Faith: Travel Writing and the Mormon Battalion of 1846.” University of

Massachusetts-Amherst Graduate Student History Conference. Amherst, Massachusetts. 4 Nov. 2006.

“Uncommon Bodies: Women, ‘True Womanhood,’ and Religious Practice in American

Historiography.” Cornell University Graduate Student Conference. Ithaca, New York. 22 Apr. 2006.

“Is it Labor or Is it Working Class?: A View From the Church Pew.” Midwest Labor and

Working-Class History Colloquium, University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, Illinois. 17-18 Apr. 2004.

“Working-Class Crucibles: Plebian Churches and Labor Militancy in Gilded Age America.”

Tri-Campus Workshop on Contentious Politics. The Global Affairs Institute of the Maxwell School of Government at Syracuse University. Syracuse, New York. 27 Feb. 2004.

“Ethnic Churches, Worker Churches: Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in the Making of

Working-Class Congregations.” University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Student Research Day. Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 29 Apr. 2003.

“Religion and the Working Class: Previous Thoughts and New Directions in Historical

Scholarship.” Phi Kappa Phi, UW-Eau Claire Chapter. Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 4 Feb. 2003.

“Congregations on Strike: Working-Class Religion and Labor Crises in American History.”

Eleventh Annual Ronald E. McNair Student Research Conference. Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 1-3 Nov. 2002.

“‘A Pullman Hell’: Working-Class Religion and Labor Crises, A Case Study.” 37^th Annual

Northern Great Plains History Conference at Augsburg College. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 11 Oct. 2002.

“The Communist Party and Anticommunism: The Fatal Years, 1945-1951.” 15^th Annual

Wisconsin Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies Conference on “Security and Cooperation in the Twenty First Century.” Carthage College. Kenosah, Wisconsin. 7 Apr. 2001.

Fellowships and Awards:

2009-2010 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship.

2009-2010 Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellowship (Declined).

2007-2008 Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Cornell University.

2007 Provost’s Diversity Fellow, Cornell University Graduate School.

2005 General Mills Award for Exemplary Graduate Assistant Teaching, Cornell

University.

2004 New York Council for the Humanities’ Reading Between the Lines Fellowship,

National Endowment of the Humanities’ “We The People Initiative.”

2003-2004 Sage Fellowship, Cornell University.

2003 Distinguished Senior Award. History Department, UW-Eau Claire.

2002 Research Fellow. Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program,

U.S. Department of Education. In Residence at UW-Eau Claire.

Research and Travel Grants:

2008 Research and Travel Grant, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University.

2007 Research and Travel Grant, Cornell University Graduate School.

2007 The Dagmar and Nils William Olsson Research Fellowship, the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL.

2007 Newberry Library Short-Term Fellow for Individual Research, Newberry Library, Chicago.

2006 Research and Travel Grant, the Episcopal Women’s History Project (Declined).

2006 Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, the American Historical Association.

2006 Alice Hanson Cook Award, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, Cornell University.

2006 American Studies Program Research Travel Grant, American Studies Program, Cornell University.

2002 Phi Kappa Phi Local Award Research Grant, UW-Eau Claire chapter.

2002 Departmental Scholarship, Department of History, UW-Eau Claire.

2002 Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Grant, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Wisconsin Systems.

2001 Awarded Gary P. Friedli Memorial Scholarship from UW-Eau Claire’s Department of History.

Professional Service:

2007-Present Scholar in Residence, Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois.

2009 Senior Colleague, Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois. Mentored undergraduate

students from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest in completing final project using the Newberry’s collections.

2009 Discussant and Chair, “Chicago History” panel at DePaul University’s 3^rd Annual

Undergraduate History Conference, History Department. DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.

2008-2010 Judge, Chicago Metro History Fair.

2007-Present Project/Collections Evaluator, Newberry Library. Evaluated fellowship applications to the Newberry Library to assess their applicability to the Library’s collections and resources.

2006 Discussant and Chair, “Religion” panel at Cornell University Department of

Sociology’s Inter-Ivy Sociology Symposium. 8 April 2006.

2006 Co-Organizer, Cornell University Department of History Graduate Student’s

conference on “Tracing the Temporal: New Trajectories in Cultural and Intellectual History.” Cornell University.

2002-2003 President, Phi Alpha Theta, UW-Eau Claire chapter.

2001-2002 Vice President, Phi Alpha Theta, UW-Eau Claire chapter.

Professional Memberships:

American Historical Association

Organization of American Historians

American Academy of Religion

American Society for Church History

Phi Alpha Theta

References:

(contact information available upon request)

Nick Salvatore, Professor of American Studies and Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Cornell University.

Derek Chang, Associates Professor of History.

Cornell University.

Ileen DeVault, Professor of Labor History.

Cornell University.

Warren Schultz, Associate Professor of History and Department Chair.

DePaul University.