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Derek Chang

Associate Professor

Office: 454 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-3705
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: dsc37@cornell.edu

Office Hours: On Leave

Ph.D. Duke University, 2002
B.A. Trinity College, 1991

Courses

Fall 2008:   On Leave
Spring 2009:
4480
The Rabinor Seminar

Recent Publications and Awards

Publications

"Brought Together Upon our Own Continent: Race, Religion, and Evangelical Nationalism in American Baptist Home Missions, 1865-1900," in Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America, edited by Karen Isaksen Leonard, et al, AltaMira Press, 2005.

“’Marked in Body, Mind, and Spirit’: Home Missionaries and the Re-Making of Race and Nation,” in Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas, edited by Henry Goldschmidt and Elizabeth McAlister, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Awards

Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, 2007.

Predoctoral Religion and Immigration Fellowship, 2000-2001: Year-long dissertation fellowship from the Social Science research Council as part of the Pew Charitable Trusts “Religion and the New Immigrants Initiative”.

Anne Firor Scott Research Award, 1999-2000: Research grant from the Duke University Women’s Studies Program for research in women’s history.

Lynn E. May, Jr., Study Grant Endowment Fund for work at the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, 1998.