MOLLY WORTHEN Department of History CB# 3195, Hamilton Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

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1 MOLLY WORTHEN Department of History CB# 3195, Hamilton Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina Fall 2012 to present Lecturer, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto Fall 2011 to Spring 2012 Instructor, Yale University Spring 2010 EDUCATION PhD, American Religious History, Yale University, awarded with Distinction, 2011 MPhil and MA, American Religious History, Yale University, 2008 BA in History, Yale University, Magna cum Laude, with Distinction in the Major, 2003 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Books Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2013) The Man On Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) Book Chapters, Refereed Articles, and Review Essays The Theological Origins of the Christian Right, in Julian Zelizer, Andrew Preston, and Bruce Schulman, eds., Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in Modern America (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming in early 2015). The Recovery of American Liberal Religion, Modern Intellectual History vol. 11, no. 2 (August 2014), The National Association of Evangelicals, in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History (Oxford University Press, 2012). The Chalcedon Problem: Rousas John Rushdoony and the Origins of Christian Reconstructionism, Church History 77:2 (June 2008), Mainstream Print Media The Election in North Carolina is Not About Nothing, New York Times, November 4, 2014 As Vermont Goes, So Goes the Nation? New York Times, April 6, 2014 Francis and His Predecessors, American Prospect, March/April 2014 Texas Textbooks: A Case Study for Creationism s Staying Power, Religion & Politics, January 14, 2014 Billy Graham and the Fracture of American Evangelicalism Christian Century blog, November 13, 2013 How Billy Graham Became an American Icon, CNN.com, November 9, 2013

2 Worthen 2 Single Moms with Family Values, New York Times, October 27, 2013 Love Thy Stranger As Thyself, New York Times, May 11, 2013 One Nation Under God? New York Times, December 22, 2012 The Power of Political Communion, New York Times, September 15, 2012 Southern Baptist Convergence, New York Times, June 18, 2012 John Stott, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien: Why American Evangelicals Love the British, Religion & Politics, May 1, 2012 Leaps of Faith, New York Times, March 1, 2012 The First Principles of Rick Santorum, New York Times, February 9, 2012 The Complicated History of Catholics, Protestants, and Contraceptives, Slate, February 9, 2012 Can the GOP Become the Party of the Working Mom? Slate, December 5, 2011 Who Is John Galt and Why Is He On Lululemon Bags? Slate, November 18, 2011 Brother s Keepers, Foreign Policy, August 2, 2011 Sign Here, and Here, and Here, Slate, July 13, 2011 The Missionary Position, Foreign Policy, June 13, 2011 Thou Shalt (Sometimes) Kill, Foreign Policy, May 11, 2011 Housewives of God, New York Times Magazine, November 14, 2010 The Reformer, Christianity Today, October 2010 (cover story) The Controversialist, Christianity Today, April 2009 Who Would Jesus Smack Down? New York Times Magazine, January 6, 2009 Not Your Father s L Abri, Christianity Today, March 2008 The Unexpected Monks, Boston Globe, February 3, 2008 Onward Christian Scholars, New York Times Magazine, Sept. 30, 2007 Sects Appeal: Evangelicals v. Mormons, New Republic, Nov. 20, 2006 Mainstream Multimedia History of Christianity II: From the Reformation to the Rise of Evangelicalism (36-lecture course for the Teaching Company s Great Courses series, scheduled for release in 2016) Book Reviews Review of Randall Balmer, Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter and Jimmy Carter, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power. New York Times Book Review, June 5, 2014 Review of George Marsden, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief. Democracy, Spring 2014 Review of David R. Swartz, Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism. New York Times Book Review, September 28, 2012 Review of T.M. Luhrmann, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God. New York Times Book Review, April 29, 2012 Review of Randall Stephens and Karl Giberson, The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age. New York Times Book Review, January 8, 2012 Review of Jeffrey Owen Jones and Peter Meyer, The Pledge: A History of the Pledge of Allegiance. The Book (online review of The New Republic), February 7, 2011 Review of Susan Herbst, Rude Democracy: Civility and Incivility in American Politics. The Book, September 1, 2010 Review of Andrew S. Finstuen, Original Sin and Everyday Protestants: The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an Age of Anxiety. Books & Culture, September/October 2010, 24. Review of Marci McDonald, The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada. Toronto Globe & Mail, May 14, 2010, F10. Review of Claude S. Fischer, Made In America: A Social History of American Culture and Character. The Book, May 13,

3 INVITED LECTURES Worthen 3 In Secularism We Trust? Fordham University (Peter and Margaret Steinfels Lecture), Nov. 18, 2014 Inside the Mind of the Christian Right, University of Tennessee at Knoxville (Charles O. Jackson Memorial Lecture), Nov. 6, 2014 Holy Minded: Evangelicals and the Problem of Anti-Intellectualism, University of California at Berkeley, April 17, 2014 Inside the Mind of the Christian Right: A Deep History of the Culture Wars, University of Montana, March 11, 2014 Women in American Religious History, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Nov. 16, 2013 Holy Minded: Evangelicals and the Problem of Anti-Intellectualism, University of Calgary (Christian Thought Lecture), Nov. 5, 2013 Culture War and the Continental Divide: Rival Evangelicalisms in North American Life, University of Calgary (Lecture in Christian Thought), Nov. 4, 2013 Do You Really Need Theology to Explain the Christian Right? Princeton University, March 11, 2013 Land of Pilgrim s Pride: American Exceptionalism and the Rise of the Christian Right, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Oct. 6, 2012 From Cold War to Culture War: Evangelicals and the Intersection of Politics and Ideas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Feb. 9, 2012 From Cold War to Culture War: Evangelicals and the Intersection of Politics and Ideas, Stanford University, Jan. 30, 2012 From Cold War to Culture War: Evangelicals and the Intersection of Politics and Ideas, George Mason University, Jan. 26, 2012 Evangelicals and Foreign Affairs: Four Myths, Boston University, December 5, 2011 The Culture Wars: Reality and Rhetoric, Yale College, March 31, 2010 Culture Wars, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., May 5, 2009 Jesus For President: Faith, Politics, and Why Americans Can t Keep Them Apart, University of Alberta (Edmonton), November 4, 2008 The Renaissance of the Evangelical Mind, The King s University College (Edmonton), November 4, 2008 Jesus For President, University of Alberta (Camrose), November 3, 2008 Jesus For President, California State University (Chico), October 27, 2008 Introduction to Mormon History and Theology, Yale Divinity School, Oct. 30, 2007 Facing Charlie: Biography and the Living Subject, Yale University (Franke Lecture in the Humanities), March 21, 2006 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS The Theological Turn in Intellectual History. Roundtable presentation for the 2014 meeting of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Oct. 11, Defining Evangelicalism: Questions that Complement the Quadrilateral. Paper for the 2014 meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Sept. 26, Faith in 2024, Roundtable presentation for the Aspen Ideas Festival, June 28, Religion and U.S. Foreign Relations. Roundtable presentation for the 2014 meeting of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 20, The Cultural Turn in Evangelical Missions. Response paper for the Danforth Distinguished Lecture Series, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University, Nov. 19, 2013 Evangelicals, Hippies, and the Politics of Community. Paper for the 2013 meeting of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Nov. 2,

4 Worthen 4 Is Evangelical an American Word? Mapping an Elusive Concept. Roundtable presentation for the 2013 meeting of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Nov. 2, Culture War as State of Nature. Paper for Historiographical Heresy: A Conference on the Legacy of Jon Butler, April 6, Plain-Folk Religion: Theology s Place in a Political Story. Paper for the 2013 meeting of the American Historical Association (Conference on Faith and History), Jan. 5, Barth, the Niebuhrs, and Other Demons: The American Evangelical Problem with Evil in the Twentieth Century. Paper for the 2013 meeting of the American Historical Association, Jan. 4, God's New Grand Narrative: The Intellectual Mobilization of the Religious Right, Paper for the 2011 meeting of the American Historical Association, Jan. 7, 2011; also organized panel, Sacred Politics: Rethinking the Rise of the Religious Right. Evangelicals and Edinburgh: The Fall and Rise of Conservative American Ecumenism. Paper for the 2010 meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Oct. 30, SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS Theron Rockwell Field Prize, University-wide award for best poetic, literary, or religious work of scholarship. Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. government award to support doctoral studies and research. John Morton Blum Fellowship, Fellowship to support doctoral research in Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee. John F. Enders Fellowship, Fellowship to support doctoral research in locations listed above. Haynes/Historical Society of Southern California Research Stipend, Fellowship to support doctoral research in California. Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Fellowship to support doctoral studies. Kingsley Fellowship, Fellowship to support independent ethnographic fieldwork in Russian Orthodox Old Believers community in rural northern Alberta. COURSES TAUGHT History of Religion in North America Modern American Intellectual History Global Evangelicalism since 1600 Sin and Evil in Modern America History of Christianity Since 1648 (graduate) History of Christianity in North America (graduate) Problems in American Religious History (graduate) Introductory Colloquium in United States History since 1865 (graduate) ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TIME Magazine, reporting intern, June-August Reported and wrote articles for the Notebook section. Toledo Blade, reporting intern, June-August Reported for city and suburban news desks. 4

5 Dallas Morning News, reporting intern, March Reporter for Religion and Metropolitan desks. Worthen 5 LANGUAGES Russian: reading knowledge Old Church Slavic: limited reading knowledge German: reading knowledge Spanish: reading knowledge 5