MERRILL HAWKINS, JR. (MEL) REVISED JANUARY 21, 2011

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1 MERRILL HAWKINS, JR. (MEL) REVISED JANUARY 21, 2011 Associate Professor of Counseling and Religion (With Tenure) Director, Spiritual Guidance and Care Program in Graduate Counseling Carson-Newman College Jefferson City, TN EDUCATION Ph.D. in Religion, Baylor University. May 1994 M. Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. May 1990 B. A. in History, Baylor University. May 1985 Graduate, Starkville High School (Mississippi) 1981 POST-DOCTORAL WORK Certificate Program in Dreamwork, Haden Institute, Certificate Program in Spiritual Direction, Haden Institute, Sabbatical, , Resident in Clinical Pastoral Education, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee (Four Units/1600 Clock Hours, Clinical Pastoral Education) Graduate Work in Marriage and Family Therapy (fifteen graduate hours), Carson- Newman College DISSERTATION FIELD OF STUDY MINOR PRELIMINARY EXAM AREAS AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION "The Social and Religious Thought of Will D. Campbell" Advisor: Dr. Bill Pitts History of Christianity History (18 Graduate Hours) Ancient and Medieval Church History Modern (including Reformation) and American Church History History of Religions Ethics Results: Passed with Distinction, September 1993 Jungian-Oriented Spiritual Direction and Spiritual/Pastoral Care; History of Christianity; American Religious History

2 COURSES: Graduate Program in Counseling Love, Grief, Anger, Guilt, Self Esteem Personality Development and Holistic Mental Health In Search of Yourself Pastoral Theology and Care Foundations of Spirituality Topics in Spirituality and Care (Recurring topic: Dreamwork) School of Religion Introduction to Old Testament Introduction to New Testament History of Christianity Baptist History American Religious History Introduction to Ministry Pastoral Theology and Care Love, Grief, Anger, Guilt, Self-Esteem In Search of Yourself PERSONAL Wife: Kimberly Hawkins (B.S. 1989; M.S in Education; Baylor University; ABD, Higher Education Leadership, University of Tennessee) Children: Anna Lee (October 16, 1996); Conner Merrill (May 22, 2002) Religion: Christian, with a very strong involvement both the United Methodist Church and various Baptist movements Birth: 4 December 1963 ORGANIZATIONS HONORS Meritorious Service Award, Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2002 Teaching Excellence and Leadership Award, Carson-Newman College, 1999 Faculty Research Award, Carson-Newman College, 1998 President, Baptist History and Heritage Society, Vice-President, Southern Baptist Historical Society, Outstanding Graduate Student, Baylor University, 1993 Member of Omicron Delta Kappa Academic Honor Society Member of American Society of Church History Member of the Conference on Faith and History

3 RELATED ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Member of Phi Alpha Theta History Society Member of the Southern Baptist Historical Society Member of the American Academy of Religion Member of Alpha Lambda Delta Academic Honor Society Member of Southern Historical Association Member of Texas Baptist Historical Society Vice-President of Graduate Theological Fellowship, Historical Director, Graduate Theological Fellowship, Faculty Council, 2008-present (representing School of Nursing and Behavioral Health) Tenure and Advancement Faculty Council Subcommittee, 2009-present Faculty Performance and Advancement Committee, Carson-Newman College, member, ; chair, Students with Disabilities Committee, Carson-Newman College, Invited Participant, Wabash Center Colloquy for Mid- Career Faculty Fellow, Westar Institute, 2004-present Invited Participant, Mercer University Annual Conference, Baptist Studies Classics, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Member, Doctoral Advisory Board, Baylor University, (a three member advisory board to the Ph.D. in religion at Baylor University: Mel Hawkins, Thomas Oden, and Richard Hays) Chair, Center for Baptist Studies, Carson-Newman College, Study Abroad Committee, Carson-Newman College, SACS Self-Study Steering Committee; Chair, Administrative Processes; Program Committee, Afro-American Religion Section, American Academy of Religion, Editor, Baptist History and Heritage Editorial Advisory Board, Baptist History and Heritage, Editorial Advisory Board, Texas Baptist History, Graduate Studies Advisory Council (Baylor Religion Department) Student Member, Library Acquisitions Committee, Accreditation Self-Study Committee, Southwestern Seminary,

4 COMMUNITY SERVICE Member, Knoxville Choral Society, Member, Waco Civic Chorus, Waco Conference of Christians and Jews, Holocaust Memorial Committee, Boy Scouts of America Cub Scouts Den Leader, 2010-present Member, First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, Tennessee

5 CHURCH EXPERIENCE Pastor, Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church, 2005-present Pastor, Jones Chapel and Mulberry Gap United Methodist Churches, Pastor, Cego Baptist Church Eddy, TX; Pastor, Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Rosebud, TX; Pastor, Axtell Baptist Church Axtell, TX; Interim Pastor, Self Creek Baptist Church Starkville, MS; Summer 1984 Regis Retirement Center, Regularly lead Prayer Service, Waco, TX East Tennessee Pulpit Supply First Baptist Church, Jefferson City Magna View Baptist Church, Talbott New Market Baptist Church, New Market First Baptist Church, Newport Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church, Newport Robertsville Baptist Church, Oak Ridge Oliver Springs Baptist Church, Oliver Springs Tazewell Baptist Church, Tazewell Mouth of Richland Baptist Church Oakland Baptist Church, Grainger County First Baptist Church, Rogersville First Baptist Church, Clinton Ball Camp Baptist Church, Knoxville Nance s Grove Baptist Church, Jefferson County West Hills Baptist Church, Knoxville

6 ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE Graduate Assistant to Professor Bill Pitts, Editorial Assistant, Texas Baptist History, Grader for Professor John Kiwiet, Southwestern Seminary Administrative Intern, Baylor University, Division of Student Affairs,

7 PUBLICATIONS Articles Spiritual, but not Religious: Personal Spirituality in America. In Faith in America. 3 Vols. Edited by Charles Lippy. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Press, Free Will Baptists. In Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Edited by Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge Press, Christian Coalition. In Encyclopedia of Religion in the South. New Edition. Edited by Samuel Hill and Charles Lippy. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, Baptist Denominational Family. In Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Edited by Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, Alfred Sharpton, Jr, Louis Abdul Farrakhan. In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights. Second Edition. Two Vols. Edited by Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, BOOKS Will Campbell; Radical Prophet of the South. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, BOOK REVIEWS 2009 W. H. Whitsitt; The Man and the Controversy, by James H. Slatton. In Church History. Forthcoming The History of The Riverside Church in the City of New York, by Peter J. Paris, et. Al. In Baptist History and Heritage. Forthcoming. The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement, by Jeffrey Wayne Taylor. In American Baptist Quarterly. Forthcoming. The Serpent and the Spirit; Glenn Summerford s Story, by Thomas Burton. In Appalachian Journal. Forthcoming.

8 2002 The Last Days: A Son s Story of Sin and Segregation at the Dawn of a New South, by Charles Marsh. In Journal of the American Academy of Religion 70 (Summer 2002): A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century, by David Stricklin. In Journal of Church and State 43 (Spring 2001): The American Leadership Tradition: The Inevitable Impact of a Leader s Faith on a Nation s Destiny. In Journal of Church and State 43 (Winter 2001): The Serpent Handlers; Three Families and their Faith, by Fred Brown and Jeanne McDonald. In Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 28 (Spring 2001): Alabama Baptists; Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie, by Wayne Flynt. In American Baptist Quarterly 20 (September 2001): Redeeming the South; Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists , by Paul Harvey. In Journal of Religious History 23 (February 1999): Summer for the Gods: The Scoptes Trial and America s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, by Edward J. Larson. In Church History (June 1999): In the Hands of a Happy God: The No Hellers of Central Appalachia, by Howard Dorgan. In Now and Then; The Appalachian Magazine Southern Cross; The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, by Christine Leigh Heyrman. In Journal of the American Academy of Religion 66 (Fall 1998): New Dimensions in American Religious History, by Jay Dolan and James Wind. In Journal of Church and State 40 (Winter 1998): One Name, but Several Faces: Variety in Popular Christian Denominations in Southern

9 History, by Samuel Hill. In Fides et Historia 29 (Winter/Spring 1997): And Also With You; Duncan Gray and the American Dilemma, by Will D. Campbell.. In The Christian Century, June 17-24, 1998, The Quality of Mercy: Southern Baptists and Social Christianity, , by Keith Harper. In The Alabama Review 51 (October 1998): Social Gospel Liberalism and the Ministry of Ernest Fremont Tittle; A Theology for the Middle Class, by Christopher Hodge Evans. In Church History 67 (September 1998): 605. God s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights, by Charles Marsh. In Church History 67 (December 1998): Past Years Sometimes in the Wrong, but Never in Douby; George Benson and the Education of the New Religious Right, by L. Edward Hicks. In Fides et Historia 28 (Winter/Spring 1996): In the South, the Baptists are the Center of Gravity, by Edward Queen. In Critical Review of Books in Religion Atlanta: Scholars Press, Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right, by Michael Liensch. In Fides et Historia 27 (Winter/Spring 1995): Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, by Richard J. Carwardine. In Journal of the American Academy of Religion 63 (Winter 1995): Politics, Religion, and Rockets: Essays in Twentieth Century American History, by Paul Carter. In Journal of Church and State 34 (Spring 1992): God Ordained This War, by David Cheseborough. In Mississippi Quarterly 45 (Spring 1992): The Arrogance of Faith, by Forest Wood. In Mississippi Quarterly 45 (Spring 1992): Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism, by George Marsden. In Journal of Mississippi History 53 (August 1991): ARTICLES Free Will Baptists. In Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Edited by Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge Press, Forthcoming.

10 Christian Coalition. In Encyclopedia of Religion in the South. New Edition. Edited by Samuel Hill and Charles Lippy. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, Forthcoming. Baptist Denominational Family. In Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Forthcoming. "J. B. Tidwell." Forthcoming in The Handbook of Texas. "Attitudes toward the White House." Baptist History and Heritage 32 (January 1997): 6-17 "The Ecumenical and Social Leadership of G. Bromley Oxnam." Methodist History January "Roger Williams on Separation." Report From the Capital, September 1992, "Private Schools, Public Funds." Report From the Capital, September 1990, With Jerry F. Dawson, "Texas Baptist Educational Institutions." Texas Baptist History 10 (1990): PAPERS PRESENTED Organized and participated in a session at 2000 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. The session reviewed Andrew Manis s A Fire You Can t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. Nashville. Organized and participated in a session at the Winter 1999 annual meeting of the American Society of Church History. The session reviewed Charles Marsh s God s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights. Washington, D. C. The Southern Sociological Congress, Race Relations, and the Social Gospel in the American South. The Christ-Haunted South: A Conference on Southern Religion, Social Practice, and Literature, Baylor University, October 22, "To Value All Humanity: The Response of the Southern Sociological Congress to Race." 1997 Southeastern Regional Meeting of AAR. "From Religious Instruction to Instruction in Religion: The Development of a Department of Religion at Baylor University." 1995 AAR/SBL/ASSR/ASOR Regional Meeting. "Will D. Campbell s Use of Spiritual Autobiography." Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, 1994 AAR/SBL/ASSR/ASOR Regional Meeting. "Racism as a Theological Problem: The Ethical World View of Will D. Campbell." 1994 American Academy of Religion National Meeting.

11 "The Anti-Institutionalism of Will D. Campbell." Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, 1993 AAR/SBL/ASSR/ASOR Regional Meeting. "Recent Resources in American Religious Studies: A Panel Discussion of The Encyclopedia of American Religious Experience and the Dictionary of Christianity in America. " I presented "A Review of Volume Three, The Encyclopedia of American Religious Experience." Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, 1992 AAR/SBL/ASSR/ASOR Regional Meeting. SESSIONS CHAIRED The Scholarship of C. Eric Lincoln AAR National Meeting. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black Religion AAR Southesast Regional Meeting. PRESENTATIONS AND SPEECHES Commencement Address, A Celebration of Will D. Campbell and the 400 th Baptists, Winter 2009 Graduation, Carson-Newman College Anniversary of the Martin Luther King Convocation, Mars Hill College, January 19, 2010