Thomas W. Simpson, Ph.D. Instructor in Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Human Rights Phillips Exeter Academy

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1 Thomas W. Simpson, Ph.D. Instructor in Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Human Rights Phillips Exeter Academy 20 Main St., Box (cell) Exeter, NH Education *University of Virginia, Ph.D., Religious Studies (European and American Religious History), 2005 *Emory University, Candler School of Theology, M.T.S., 1999 *University of Virginia, B.A., Religious Studies and Classics, with highest distinction, 1997 Selected Awards and Grants *Dr. Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Class of 1937 Distinguished Faculty Fund Award, Phillips Exeter Academy, Awarded to a teacher "whose exemplary effort, special promise, and creative initiative enriches the life and learning at Phillips Exeter Academy" *Best Article Award, The Juvenile Instructor (blog for scholars in the field of Mormon history), Awarded for the year's best peer-reviewed article in Mormon history. *New Teacher Award, Phillips Exeter Academy, Awarded in recognition of "dedication to teaching, loving interest in the students, and continued self-development in the humanities." *Sidney E. Mead Prize, American Society of Church History, Awarded for the year's best scholarly essay, based on doctoral research, in the history of Christianity. *Dissertation-Year Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching and Research, U.Va. Faculty Senate, Awarded annually to five of the university's graduate students. *Presidential Fellowship, University of Virginia, Highest financial award given to an incoming graduate student in Religious Studies. *Graduation Marshal, Emory University, Position awarded to the member of the graduating M.T.S. class with the highest G.P.A. *Phi Beta Kappa, Induction, University of Virginia, Grants *Summer Research Grant, Phillips Exeter Academy, In support of archival research in connection with my forthcoming book in Mormon history. *Faculty Summer Travel Grant, Phillips Exeter Academy, In support of a ten-day study tour of postwar Bosnia & Herzegovina.

2 *Summer Research Grant, Charles Redd Center, Brigham Young University, In support of archival research in connection with my forthcoming book in Mormon history. *Research Grant, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, Brigham Young University, In support of my archival dissertation research in Mormon history. *Summer Research Grant, Charles Redd Center, Brigham Young University, In support of my archival dissertation research in Mormon history. Teaching and Administrative Experience *Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, 2008-present. Instructor in Religion, Ethics, Philosophy, and Human Rights. Courses Taught Senior Studies 412: Human Rights / Religion 493: The Holocaust / Religion 421: Existentialism / Religion 410: Personhood and Belief (Spiritual Autobiography) / Religion 340 (2015-present): Women, Gender, and Religion in Film / Religion 340 ( ): God and Politics in America / Religion 310: Social Ethics / Religion 270: Islam / Religion 240: Religion and Popular Culture / Religion 220: Faith and Doubt / Religion 120: One Nation Under God? Religious Traditions in America / Religion 110: Hebrew Bible Administrative, Coaching, and Dormitory Responsibilities Faculty Leader, Stratford-upon-Avon fall term abroad, 2015 / Chair, Martin Luther King Day Committee, / Assistant Coach, JV Baseball, 2009-present / Dormitory Head, Dow House, / Dormitory Faculty Affiliate, McConnell Dorm, and Ewald Dorm, 2015-present / Member, Equity and Diversity Assessment Steering Committee, *Global Citizens Youth Summit, Faculty member for week-long seminar at Harvard University on global citizenship, ethics, and leadership with 24 youth from Asia, Africa, the U.K., the U.S., and South America. *Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin, Assistant Professor, Religion Department. Courses Taught Religion/Classics 400: Religion & Classics Department Joint Senior Thesis Seminar / Religion 335: Religion and Society / Religion 307: Religion in America / Religion 270 (January Term): African American Religions / Religion 270 (January Term): Mormonism / Religion 100: Understandings of Religion / Heritage Studies 110: Issues in Community: Citizenship and Justice Administrative and Committee Responsibilities

3 Member, Heritage Studies (Core Curriculum) Oversight Committee, / Member, Faculty Development Advisory Board, / Secretary, Humanities Division, / Chair, Religion 100 course textbook search and adoption process, *Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, Graduate Research Assistant for E. Brooks Holifield, Charles Howard Candler Professor of American Church History. Responsibilities One of two graduate assistants for Dr. Holifield's research leading to the publication of God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America (Eerdmans, 2007). Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, *Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, Director, Journeys of Reconciliation (university travel program focusing on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding). Responsibilities Chaired advisory board and supervised orientation, planning, and post-travel analysis for trips to South Africa, Bosnia & Herzegovina, the Texas-Mexico borderlands, the Mississippi Delta, the Appalachian coal fields, and the Cheyenne and Crow reservations of Montana Organized 2004 campus symposium on the arts and social change, featuring artists from the program's host communities in the U.S. *University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Religious Studies Department. Teaching Assistant for Religious Studies 265: Religion in America since 1865 / Religious Studies 206: History of Christianity II ( ) / Religious Studies 121: Hebrew Bible / Religious Studies 101: Western Religious Traditions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) Research and Publications *Forthcoming Book: American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, Under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. *Literary Essay: "All We Have Left: A Bosnian Journey." Numéro Cinq, October ( *Articles: "The Death of Mormon Separatism in American Universities, " Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation (Summer 2012):

4 "Mormons Study 'Abroad': Brigham Young's Romance with American Higher Education, " Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 76:4 (December 2007): "The Prophetic Realism of Walter Rauschenbusch: A Comparative Study with Reinhold Niebuhr and Martin Luther King, Jr." In Christopher Evans, ed., Perspectives on the Social Gospel (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1999). *Dissertation: "Mormons Study 'Abroad': Latter-day Saints in American Higher Education, " Directed by Heather Warren, University of Virginia, *Book Reviews: Review of Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America (University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Mormon Studies Review 2 (2015): Review of Carlos Eire, A Very Brief History of Eternity (Princeton University Press, 2010). Journal of the American Academy of Religion 78 (2010): Review of David Hempton, Methodism: Empire of the Spirit (Yale University Press, 2005). Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 74 (2006): *Online Publications: "Know Your Archives: The Next Generation of Mormon Studies," Religion in American History blog, December 2013 ( "Viva Bosnia" and "Tough Love," essays on the Bosnian "Baby Revolution" of jmbg.org ( and revolution/) "Giving the Devil His Due," on classroom use of the documentary film Pray the Devil Back to Hell, American Society of Church History blog, May 2012 ( "Bosnia Corrected Me," introduction to the work of abstract expressionist painter Samir Biščević ( *Papers and Formal Presentations: "Extending the Table." Plenary lecture on global leadership, Global Citizens Youth Summit, Cambridge, MA, "Mormon Americanization: The Power of Persuasion and Perspective." Western History

5 Association, annual meeting, Tucson, "All We Have Left." Phillips Exeter Academy, weekly lecture series, On postwar Bosnia & Herzegovina, in collaboration with Bosnian concert accordionist Merima Ključo and soprano Ariadne Greif. Chair, author-meets-critics panel on Carlos Eire's A Very Brief History of Eternity. American Society of Church History, winter meeting, Boston, "The Mechanics of Soul and the Etymology of Funk: Reflections on Whiteness and the Struggle to Be Human." Phillips Exeter Academy, weekly lecture series, Chair and commenter, session on LDS families and education. Mormon History Association, annual meeting, Independence, MO, Presider and commenter, screening of the documentary film Pray the Devil Back to Hell. American Academy of Religion, annual meeting, Montreal, Co-sponsored by the AAR's Women and Religion Section, African Religions Group, and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group. Panelist, "Mormon Studies in the Academy," session moderated by Laurie Maffly-Kipp on teaching Mormonism in colleges and universities. American Academy of Religion, annual meeting, San Diego, Guest lecturer, graduate seminar on Mormon intellectual history taught by Richard Bushman and Terryl Givens. Brigham Young University, "'It is a Sin to Miss the Opportunities : Benjamin Cluff's Reverence for Secular Education." Mormon History Association, annual meeting, Salt Lake City, Invited presenter on my research in Mormon history. Carthage College, humanities division research colloquium, Faculty workshop leader: "Teaching W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk." Carthage College, Western History Association, annual meeting, Las Vegas, "Mormons in American Higher Education, " Invited presenter, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute research fellows' seminar, Brigham Young University, "Rorty and Rauschenbusch on Religion and Reform." American Academy of Religion, annual meeting, Toronto, "The Progressive Realism of Walter Rauschenbusch." Social Gospel Conference,

6 Rochester, NY, *Campus Symposia Organized: Martin Luther King Day, Phillips Exeter Academy, January 2013, 2014, and Featuring keynote addresses and workshops focusing on themes of peacebuilding, human rights, and global justice. Bryan Stevenson (NYU law professor and author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption), Kenji Yoshino (NYU law professor and author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights), and Lorene Cary (UPenn English professor and author of several books including Black Ice) have been the keynote speakers, and workshop facilitators have included (among others): Rich Benjamin, author of Searching for Whitopia; Lecia Brooks of the Southern Poverty Law Center; Tucker Carrington of the Mississippi Innocence Project; and Amer Ahmed of the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs at the University of Michigan. Islam in America, Carthage College, April Symposium on gender, law, politics, violence, and human rights in Islam, featuring lectures and panel discussions by Imam Warith Deen Mohammed; Liyakatali Takim, professor at the University of Denver and a specialist in reformations in contemporary Islamic law; and Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, editor of Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak. The Arts and Social Change, Emory University, March Featuring lectures and performances by Native American mixed-media visual artist Bently Spang, whose blending of the traditional and the modern represents the dynamic, evolving character of Native American life; Guy and Candie Carawan, Randy Wilson, and Donavan Cain, performers of freedom and protest songs from Appalachia and the Deep South; and Amelia Kirby, co-director of the "Holler to the Hood" project at Appalshop, which fuses rural Appalachian and urban musical styles to generate new forms of artistic expression and racial reconciliation. Professional Development *Rex A. McGuinn Shakespeare Conference, Phillips Exeter Academy, June *Study tours of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004, 2012, 2014, and *American Academy of Religion, annual meeting, , *American Society of Church History, annual meeting, 2004, 2007, 2011 *Mormon History Association, annual meeting, 2007, 2010 *Museum of Modern Art, 40 th Anniversary Celebration of Appalshop (The Appalachian Media Workshop), 2010 *Exeter Humanities Institute, June Service to the Profession

7 *Mormon History Association: member of the Program Committee ( and ) and Undergraduate & Graduate Essay Prize Committee ( ). *Reviewer of manuscripts and book proposals for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, and Blackwell, Routledge, and Oxford University Presses, References 1) Dr. Heather Warren, Associate Professor, European and American Religious History, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia. Halsey Hall / Charlottesville, VA / Office Phone: / Department Fax: / haw6w@virginia.edu. 2) Dr. E. Brooks Holifield, Charles Howard Candler Professor of American Church History, Emeritus, Emory University. Mailing Address: 3214 Bolero Pass Atlanta, GA eholifi@emory.edu 3) Dr. J. Spencer Fluhman, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University JFSB / Provo, UT Office Phone: / Department Fax: / fluhman@byu.edu.