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Alison Collis GreeneAmerican Religious History20th Century United States 228 Allen Hall Mississippi State University Mailbox H Mississippi State, MS 39762 Phone: 662-325-3604 E-mail: agreene@history.msstate.edu Education
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Research Interests
PhD, History, Yale University, 2010 Dissertation: "No Depression in Heaven: Religion and Economic Crisis in Memphis and the Delta, 1929-1941" Advisor: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore M.A., History, Yale University, 2008 B.A., University of North Carolina, Religious Studies and Anthropology,2001 Academic Career Assistant Professor of History, Mississippi State University, 2010 Courses Taught HI 1073: The United States Since 1877 HI 3903: Historiography and Historical Methods HI 4253: Religion in America HI 8803: Colloquium in American Religious History HI 8953: Colloquium in United States History, 1877-1945 Honors/Awards Edwin W. Small Prize for an outstanding dissertation in United States history, Yale University, 2011 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2009-10 Louisville Institute Honorary Dissertation Fellowship, 2009-10 Lubin-Winant Research Fellowship, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, 2009 Richard J. Franke Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Yale University, 2005-07 Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 2004-05 Phi Beta Kappa Society, 2001 Bernard Boyd Memorial Prize, UNC, 2001 Daniel H. Moore Award, UNC, 2000 Morehead Scholar, UNC, 1997-2001 Presentations "A Reversal of Fortunes: Economic Crisis, Protestant Decline, and the Rise of a New Evangelical Era," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 7, 2012 "'I Ain t Bowing Down to Them All the Time': African American Youth and Religion in the Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, October 21, 2011 "Singing to the End: Apocalyptic Music in the Rural South during the Great Depression," Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, June 17, 2011 "The Christian Left, Agricultural Labor Unions, and the Sacralization of Rural Life in the 1930s," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 7, 2011 "The Redemption of Souls and Soils: Religion and the Rural Crisis in the Mississippi Delta, American Society of Church History Annual Meeting, January 6-9, 2011 Roundtable participant, "The Future of Southern Religious History," American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 1, 2010 "Revival or Revolt: Religious Foretelling at the Dawn of the Great Depression," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 7, 2010 "Arenia Mallory and African-American Religious Education in Mississippi during the Great Depression," Southern Association of Women Historians Annual Meeting, Columbia, South Carolina, June 5, 2009 Panel Commenter, "The Rural South," Phi Alpha Theta Mississippi Regional Conference, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, April 18, 2009 "'Heavenly Dynamite:' Bishop Alma Bridwell White, Women's Rights, and Anti-Catholicism," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 17, 2008 "'The Tyrrell Way:' Interracial Religious Activism and White Reaction in 1940s North Carolina," New England Historical Association Meeting, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, April 26, 2008 "'Into the Whirling Hell-Broth:' The Fellowship of Southern Churchmen and a Radical Social Critique," American Religious History Working Group, Yale University, Spring 2006 Publications No Depression in Heaven: Religion and Economic Crisis in Memphis and the Delta, manuscript in progress. "The End of 'The Protestant Era'?" Church History, September 2011 "The Religion of the 'Flotsam and Jetsam'," The Journal of Southern Religion, Fall 2011 "The Redemption of Souls and Soils: Religion and the Rural Crisis in the Mississippi Delta," in Gods of the River: Religion and Culture along the Mississippi, edited by Michael Pasquier, Indiana University Press, forthcoming |